Red Sox - 220 000 000 - 4 5 0The night started well. Nine pitches into the game, Boston had a 2-0 lead, thanks to Jason Bay's 10th home run of the year. In the second, after Palmer issued two full-count walks and Nick Green doubled and Jacoby Ellsbury grounded out, the Red Sox led 4-0.
Angels - 005 111 00x - 8 14 0
After that, only one Boston hitter reached base. Bay singled with one out in the third and was immediately erased on a double play. Palmer (9-5-4-2-8, 109) retired 22 of the last 23 batters he faced, striking out five of the final seven. (It's been awhile since we complained about a relative unknown pitcher shutting down the Sox.)
The Angels sent ten men to the plate against Wakefield (4.2-11-7-3-2, 91) in the third. The first five reached base and scored, with Mike Napoli's three-run dong being the big blow.
Daniel Bard (#60) made his major league debut in the sixth inning, relieving Hunter Jones with runners at second and third and no outs. He struck out Napoli on three high fastballs (96, 96, 98), gave up a sacrifice fly, then got a grounder to end the inning. In the seventh, he was touched for a single and walk, but showed poise and pitched out of trouble. His line: 2-2-0-1-1, 38 (charts).
He looked great. All of his pitches were around the plate -- in the seventh inning, he had the Angels left-handed hitters Erick Aybar and Chone Figgins swinging defensively and fouling balls off to the third base side -- and it was amazing to see 98 mph heaters come out of such a smooth and easy delivery.
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Tim Wakefield (2.92, 170 ERA+) / Matt Palmer (3.06, 157 ERA+)
Palmer has made six major league starts, three with the Giants last season (8.53 ERA in 12.2 innings) and three so far in 2009 with the Angels.
MLB.com says that Palmer continues "to baffle hitters with the movement on his cut fastball and sinker while mixing in off-speed stuff. ... he feels he has found a new approach by improving his mechanics and getting a more direct path to home plate."
How often does David Ortiz think about having hit no home runs in 146 plate appearances?
Every day. Every day. Sleeping. Eating. Having breakfast. It's bad. You've got guys around the league that don't even have home run swings and they're hitting home runs like crazy. You think about it. You think, whoa, what's up?Also: Yankees/Blue Jays at 7.
184 comments:
I watched Palmer's last two starts, and every hitter seemed WAY out in front of his pitches. He doesn't throw hard at all, and his pitch doesn't move all that much. He leaves stuff over the plate. He should be hittable, if people just stay back.
I think Ortiz should settle on the double. Aim for average. Help the team.
Tito on WEEI: No FY tonight.
Yanks strand two in 1st. sweet.
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
Julio Lugo, SS
David Ortiz, DH
Jason Bay, LF
Mike Lowell, 3B
J.D. Drew, RF
Jeff Bailey, 1B
George Kottaras, C
Nick Green, 2B
Chone Figgins, 3B
Gary Matthews, Jr., RF
Bobby Abreu, DH
Torii Hunter, CF
Kendry Morales, 1B
Mike Napoli, C
Juan Rivera, LF
Howie Kendrick, 2B
Eric Aybar, SS
PEDitte walks three in the first. Only one scores though.
Yanks get two doubles, two triples, and a homer in the 2nd. So far. 4-1.
MFY: 050 1
TOR: 100
Can someone tell me what they're saying in this song? It sounds like "Tribe Time." But it's the Twins.
wow - millar's facial hair with the jays is disgusting.
Teixeira over .200!!!! .204.
Swish 0-5 in the 2-hole tonight.
back down to .202 for Tex.
Teixeira over .200!!!! .204.That $180 million is already paying dividends big time!
Phew, thankfully, my kid doesn't care that much about sports, because otherwise, she'd be really depressing about the Caps losing 6-2 tonight.
She gets more worked up about "Star Trek."
"Dad, you can't dump an anti-matter core into a black hole; it would annihilate the entire solar system...."
"Sssssh, it's just a movie."
"But, but, but...."
"Ssssshhhhh...."
Dave Roberts looks extraordinarily weird without facial hair.
Why do Don and Dave share one microphone?
I mean, for the intro...
(Without a beard, Roberts looks much more Okinawan.)
he'll regret that one
LBJ getting the hit parade started.
It is funny how there are people who look better and more fitting with facial hair and others who you never ever want to see a whisker on them. Like Ellsbury. Keep shaving, kid.
The rest of us can live in between. :>)
Lugo passing anti-parade laws on his first day in office
Dave Roberts says he's putting it on the record that Ortiz is going to hit a dong tonight. I will hold him to it.
See if LBJ had a beard it wouldn't be as close a play.
looked safe to me...high tag
Damn...
THUNDER BAY!!! HOMRE!!! DOUNG!!! CANADA!!!!
THUNDER
DOUNG
BAY IS A BEAST
DOUNGE!!!
Bay says the Ribeye is on me tonight.
You know, for a Canadian, that Jason Bay is pretty good...
Pepe I wished that Game 7 had a bit more excitement to it, but you could see the Caps were gassed and hurting. Their second Game 7 in the playoffs which means no rest and it caught up to them.
I got this real Nick Esasky feel when Bay hit that. Then I remembered I was calling some guy "Esasky II" last year. I went and checked, and sure enough it was him. I guess the reason I started that when he got here is because he "should pack an Esasky-type punch." But he really does have this right-handed, white guy, monster dong with half-casual trot out of the box feel. No beard, though. Or vertigo.
I like the start of this one!
Yanks win. But hey, we can take first tonight now.
L says hi.
I also thought Lyndon looked safe.
Pepe I wished that Game 7 had a bit more excitement to it, but you could see the Caps were gassed and hurting. Their second Game 7 in the playoffs which means no rest and it caught up to them.
What *I* saw is that the Caps' goalie SUCKED tonight.
NICE BAT FLIP FUCKHEAD
I thought LBJ was safe initially, but I was less certain after seeing the replay.
What *I* saw is that the Caps' goalie SUCKED tonight. • He did but the Caps defense was worse. You get 6 goals dropped on you it's not just your goalie. Of course they did pull Varlamov after 4 goals.
i said the same thing jere -- toss that bat like he donged. idiot
i said the same thing jere -- toss that bat like he donged. idiotI thought bat-tossing was banned after Bret Boone retired.
BBailey
He did but the Caps defense was worse. You get 6 goals dropped on you it's not just your goalie. Of course they did pull Varlamov after 4 goals.
Well, now I gotta look forward to a Phil Kessel-Sidney Crosby conference final.
C'mon, Phil, do it for LANCE!
yayyy. Go Canada! A home run and a walk!
the Monster!
Green & Bailey. Sounds like a drink. Or a law firm.
4-0!
4-zip us.
Don wants to be your backdoor man
A few more, and I can go to sleep in relative peace.
Environmentally friendly RBI
Pre-surgery Lugo would've beaten that out.
Lugo still < Green
OK, shutting down the laptop before my eyes shut for the night.
Enjoy the game, and GO SOX!
lip
no lip
And hello from 34,000 feet. I love wifi in the sky; get to watch the Sox (on GDGD anyway). Woot.
DP would be convenient here
I've heard Kennedy and now Roberts......its amazing but Eck is the best sub...hands down.....
K-BAR
Not the most efficient inning I've seen, but nice work on escaping the jam.
Allan I wonder if WestCoastSox is the first person ever to gamethread to JoS from the air.
Winging it back west, WCS?
as far as i know, that is the first comment from a plane.
as far as i know, that is the first comment from a plane.
OK, that's it, later this summer, I'm commenting from on top of a 10,000 foot summit.
Meh
I'm commenting from space, so....
can you get wifi from a 10,000 foot summit??
I can't get cell service on Rt 6
wtf lugo
Ok, if LBJ was out, then so was he.
Well, maybe if Lugo had tagged the hand.
redsock said...
wtf lugo
Drink
replay - clearly out
can you get wifi from a 10,000 foot summit??
I can't get cell service on Rt 6
Ha, not a bad point. I just got a new iPhone, and I don't have a clue yet how to use it or what it can or cannot do.
second walk, don. wake up.
Abreu....doesn't have a dong either yet this year.....
Exact same thing as a few days ago on the play where Jacoby hurt himself. He was called out and they said how the ball beat him, even though he was clearly safe. Except here, the ball beat him AND the tag beat him but they STILL said safe. Unbelievable. That play's called out 99% of the time even if the hand does get in there.
Pepe Lepew said...
iPhone, and I don't have a clue yet how to use it or what it can or cannot do.
everything...
Meh.
Bleh
Outs please?
How about we stop doing that.
9: WHen I took US 6 from Prov to Hart the other day, I remembered how I also knew it from Danbury, so I looked into it. I had no idea 6 goes from the tip of the Cape to California.
That wasn't an out...
Virgin Atlantic has wifi in the sky. Don't know how or why it works, but it works. I think I'm somewhere over Nevada now, but not really sure. Hope Wake can pull it together...
Fucking hell.
Cock McCock's Cocking Cock.
Balls.
C'mon, Tim, you still have a shot at the Cy Young. Get it together, man!
I had no idea 6 goes from the tip of the Cape to California.
Sadly it stops something like thirty miles from the Pacific, iirc.
MOTHERFUCKER
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccccckkkkk
Jere said...
9: WHen I took US 6 from Prov to Hart the other day, I remembered how I also knew it from Danbury, so I looked into it. I had no idea 6 goes from the tip of the Cape to California.
before we had kids the wife and I would travel all of CT.....with one goal......try and get lost, I couldn't do it .....all the roads lead me right back to the Dirty Water(Waterbury)
Phoo. LOUSY timing with that last comment. Literally right on the pitch.
i think napoli's dong is over nevada about now.
yeah 6 used to go to Long Beach, now it just barely goes past the Nevada border.
Finally .........an out
WTF was up with Wake there?
roberts better go easy on the cliches. it's only the 3rd inning.
Well, that was several batters too late.
Jere, at Route 6's beginning out in Bishop, California: link!
oh, and 9c, I also discovered 6 goes through Omaha and Lincoln, which I also had no idea about while I was out there.
Meunier said...
WTF was up with Wake there?
Our starters pitch terrible with leads.....
We should start IBB'ing Napoli every time he comes up..
ish, I bet you're inking to the Provincetown sign.....
Jere said...
oh, and 9c, I also discovered 6 goes through Omaha and Lincoln, which I also had no idea about while I was out there.
you just assume it is another 6....
Time to warm up Bard?
6 rules!
jones is up
Jere I bet you're right. I'd love to drive a road like that sometime from one end to the other. Route 20, for instance. Boston to Newport, Oregon.
ooh, I gotta read more about this 20 road. Route 66 gets all the attention, but there appear to be all these other coast to coast roads.
Jere I bet you're right. I'd love to drive a road like that sometime from one end to the other. Route 20, for instance. Boston to Newport, Oregon.
I lived in Newport for a year-and-a-half!
Wet. Very wet.
Alright, let's score a shitload of runs
I also lived near Bishop, Calif. for four years. In Mammoth.
Jere there are some anomalies with long roads like that.
US Route 2, for instance, has two segments! The east segment goes from Houlton, Maine to Rouses Point, New York. Then it disappears. Re-appears again St. Ignace, Michigan on the upper peninsula and travels across the far northern plains all the way out to Everett, Washington.
Lady, you got ripped off when someone sold you a "left-handed kitchen."
Pepe Lepew said...
iPhone, and I don't have a clue yet how to use it or what it can or cannot do.
everything...
My daughter has beaten Halo 3 three times on it already. I can't even figure out how to turn it on.
That last inning sorta sucked.
you come in naked, you're more likely to see a dong
Um, a shitload is supposed to be more than one.
Was that just me, or did that half-inning last like 12 seconds?
Actually, revise that, a shitload is supposed to be more than none.
Pirates/Cardinals game saw an Adam LaRoche deep fly that hit a railing and was called a home run. Cards asked for replay, it was used, and the home run was overturned and ruled a double.
First home run taken away by instant replay.
FUCK
Wake decided not to ride the fuck train tonight...
New pitcher please, this is why we have those rookies up..
OK, we got Anaheim/LA/California right where we want them. We do better when behind.
You know the Red Sox. They love to come from behind with their dongs.
PC
Palmer: 13-25-8 9-8 = 63
Wakefield: 14-19-37 10 = 80
This needs to be Wake's last inning.
wait, so he took five steps, threw to second, and almost doubled the guy off? And we get no replay due to the pre-planned Coors ad thing.
I guess I'll just go the rest of my life assuming if Drew threw right away it would've been a DP easily then.
Um, Wake, outs please?
roberts likes lugo too much for my tastes.
Okay, Jones, please rescue this inning.
Are we gonna get an all-Hunter matchup?
Inning salvaged
Only halfway thru the game, it's still in reach if the pen holds it here.
OT; Today I went to play at a golf course, and the course had been built around a pig farm. It gave gagging it down the fairway a whole new meaning.
Astros had 3 3-run innings in a row tonight. Got 24 hits total in the game.
Daniel Bard warming.
Hunter walks Hunter.
Or, Jo' walks Torii
And here comes Bard.
I'm not liking the start of this inning.
These retarded Californians in the front row caught off guard by a ball hit right at them on a nice easy bounce. YOu're sitting in the goddamn front row, how are you not standing with both hands out ready for any ball coming out there? Instead: "ahhh! where'd this ball come from?? Dear god, cover your face!"
At least we get to see Bard.
Alright, runners on second and third, none out.
Way to start him out in a low-pressure situation.
come on Heder
Kevin, we are down 3. It's not like he came in in a tie or with tying or go-ahead run on.
Nice.
Heder throwin heders
SIT
Good Morning. 96
Good afternoon. 96
Good night! 98
Missing with his offspeed stuff, though.
DOn, if the cameras show ten different angles, none of which are the guy on second, you have to tell us if he tagged up.
Much better breaker there.
Meh...I'll take it, as long as they score no more.
amazingly free and easy motion -- then bam -- 98.
See that? Even the person in control of the little icon kept the guy on second! Because no one showed OR told him if the guy went to third.
10 pitches.
There we go.
Ugh. How does this guy have a streak of 11 batters retired?
"Kevin, we are down 3. It's not like he came in in a tie or with tying or go-ahead run on."
True, but starting your career in a "Hey, it would be really nice if you could strike out the side" situation isn't exactly a cake walk.
Regardless, he came through nicely.
So when he becomes the setup man, do we get to say "bridge it, Bard-o"?
gotta learn the ol' step off, Napolean.
write meets might as the Bard battles the Hunter. Anyone here?
Alright, nicely done.
Any chance we can score a shitload of runs this time?
38 pitches - nice debut
saito was up
9-1-2 here
"Get it" and then "get some" and "get your something on" and "get more" with the new product from Average American Companyco.
very nice catch. fucker.
That inning was way too fucking brief.
3-4-5-6-7-8 - they have all been too fucking brief.
"3-4-5-6-7-8 - they have all been too fucking brief."
Touche.
We score four runs in the first two innings, yet manage to get to the point where I wouldn't be entirely shocked if he came out for the ninth and went all 9 innings.
he is at 96 and oliver was up. he probably is done. maybe we can light up oliver for 4 runs real quick-like.
i'm wrong - he's going back out.
they go to the 13th in Minny
A Papi dong would redeem this shitty game even more than 2.0 IP from Bard.
But no.
only one of last 23 sox batters reaches base. fucker did a number on us.
Oh well.
Distilled water...
human umps stink. a robot never would've heard the crowd and decided to give a far outside strike and then an inside strike
spanked by Harry Palmer
Much as I hate to admit, that was a hell of a performance on their parts.
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