May 24, 2009

G44: Red Sox 12, Mets 5

Mets    - 013 010 000 -  5  8  0
Red Sox - 030 032 40x - 12 16 0
With the win today and losses by the Yankees and Blue Jays, here are the updated AL East standings:
            W   L   PCT    GB   NEXT
Red Sox 26 18 .591 --- at Min
Blue Jays 27 20 .574 0.5 at Bal
Yankees 25 19 .568 1.0 at Tex
Rays 23 23 .500 4.0 at Cle
Orioles 18 26 .409 8.0 vs Tor
Every starter had at least one hit and scored one run, except David Ortiz, who went 0-for-5 (now batting .195). ... Drew had four hits, Lowell and Kottaras had three, and Pedroia had three walks to go with his single.

Manny Delcarmen threw two excellent innings of relief, allowing only a two-out double in the eighth (K, 3U, 5-3; K, 4-3, 2B, 4-3). Takashi Saito pitched a perfect ninth (5-3, 3U, K).

Sox 7th: Singles from Kottaras and Green (5 hits from those two guys today). An ill-advised bunt from Ellsbury forces Kottaras at third. Pedroia smashes a single to left for a run. Ortiz pops to short left (0-for-5). Yook hits a first-pitch, three-run dong to deep left.

Wakefield: 6-7-5-4-3, 94. Only three outs recorded by the outfield.

Sox 6th: With one out Pedroia walks. With two outs, Youkilis walks, Bay singles to center to score FY, and Drew doubles to right (he is 4-for-4), bringing in Yook.

Sox 5th: With two out and no one on, the Sox attack. Drew singles to right, Lowell singles off the Wall, Kottaras doubles to right-center (his second double of the day), scoring one run, and Nick Green pokes a two-run single to right, then gets caught in a 9-3-6-4-5-3 rundown.

Sox 2nd: Bay walk, Drew double, Lowell three-run HR to left. Later in the inning, Ellsbury doubled to extend his hit streak to 19 games.

***

Game back on at 2:24 PM.

1:48 PM: Rain delay in the bottom of the first (large hail-like drops).
Wakefield allowed a single and a walk to start the game, but got Beltran to GIDP 4-6-3 and struck out Sheffield. In the Boston half, Ellsbury lined out to center, Pedroia walked -- and the tarp came out.

***

Tim Redding (3.00, 146 ERA+) / Tim Wakefield (3.59, 136 ERA+)

Before heading out on a ten-game road trip to Minnesota, Toronto and Detroit -- the longest trip of the season -- it would be nice to avoid a sweep and grab a win.

I'm asking politely.

MLB.com:
Making his season debut after missing six weeks with a strained right rotator cuff, Redding gave the Mets a fine outing last Monday in Los Angeles: six innings, two hits and two runs. ... In two career starts in Boston, he is 0-2 with a 12.72 ERA, while the Sox have hit him at a .414 clip.
Those two games came on June 14, 2003 and July 15, 2005 (1-4-6-4-2, Red Sox beat the Yankees 17-1), so take them with a quarter-grain of salt. (NL guys like Drew and Bay have faced him most often.)

That doesn't mean he isn't a chump, though. He is -- and the Sox should pound him into pulp.

The Red Sox and Yankees -- both at 25-18 -- trail Toronto by 0.5. ... Phillies/Yankees at 1:00 and Blue Jays/Atlanta at 1:30.

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tim said...

I mentioned in the other thread but it likely fell on deaf ears - I've got the "Impossible Dream" LP of the '67 Red Sox season in MP3 format if anyone is interested.

Send me an email (tlopinski@gmail.com) and I will send it over.

allan said...

Just got to work and was going to put this post up. But it already is up. That is strange.

Barth said...

I have both the album as an MP3, but now the video as well. Interesting. Different. Don Gillis works with Coleman on it and the poem is slightly different.

On other points:

It is impossible to transfer the feelings about the American League team in New York to the National League one. I am unable, except when it is unavoidable such as when they play one another, to call the American League team by its nickname, while I frequently refer to the other New York team as "the Mets."

Growing up a Red Sox fan in the New York area (when I was eight and almost nine years old), I adopted the Mets as my "other team" and rooted them through the 1969 and 1973 World Series as if they were (almost) my team.

That ended after NY's game 6 against Houston when I realized what was about to happen. (Not the WS game 6, of course, but the WS. I wanted them to lose game 6 so that Fernandez had to pitch twice, thinking, wrongly, that he could not pitch to our righties.)

My attempts to restore them as my favorite NL team have never been completely successful or unsuccessful. At the last game of the 162 game season at Shea last year, I was sad only for Mets fans. That there was no NY team in the postseason made me happy.

But I do not hate them. Hate is a strong word and if it applies to a baseball team, they are not it.

The hate that is growing is toward Lugo. I also have had serious reservations about the "great" Paps all season and, though he dodged those bullets before last night, his inability to stay ahead of the count is getting serious. So serious that I think that Bard is up for a reason. (Watch what happens when Smoltz is activated. Bard will not be sent down---either Penny will be traded or a phony injury (to Saito, probably) will be manufactured.)

allan said...

Rain is in the forecast.

Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Kevin Youkilis, 1B
Jason Bay, LF
J.D. Drew, RF
Mike Lowell, 3B
George Kottaras, C
Nick Green, SS

9casey said...

Barth said...
I also have had serious reservations about the "great" Paps all season and, though he dodged those bullets before last night, his inability to stay ahead of the count is getting serious.


C'mon get your finger off the panic button....He had converted 16 in a row before that and that was a 97 mph fastball, stop with the nonsense, please...

Rob said...

I would have liked to have seen Bot throw a couple of sliders here and there but Santos was geared up for fiery, hairy, gassy cheese and he got it.

Can't argue with someone hitting a dong off of 97 heat, although he did make it a sort of easy guess.

9casey said...

Ish said...
I would have liked to have seen Bot throw a couple of sliders here and there but Santos was geared up for fiery, hairy, gassy cheese and he got it.

Can't argue with someone hitting a dong off of 97 heat, although he did make it a sort of easy guess.



Yeah, but that holds no water because he threw 7 pitches to Wright and Reed all fastballs....he wasn't trying to fool anybody

Rob said...

Yeah. He blows away Wright and Reed so you think well we just got this catcher we've never heard of next. Keep throwing heat and get the save.

laura k said...

"It is impossible to transfer the feelings about the American League team in New York to the National League one."

No transfer needed! I hate the Stems independent of any other hatred for any other team.

laura k said...

".He had converted 16 in a row before that and that was a 97 mph fastball,"

But he's not perfect!!!! Woe is us!!!

"stop with the nonsense, please..."

There's an idea.

Rob said...

Dwight Evans doing color today on NESN. Pretty sure Eck is working TBS today.

laura k said...

win please

allan said...

Heh, Don starts giving the lineup over the kid.

Rob said...

Lighting is interesting at Fenway with the dark clouds behind home plate.

Zenslinger said...

"I think that Bard is up for a reason."

Let me, at the risk of piling on, L-Girl you for a moment.

Yeah, he's up for a reason: to pitch in his own role. Is a possible someday replacement for Papelbon? Sure, but no one's thinking that day is anytime soon.

allan said...

dewey sounding incredibly tentative.

allan said...

it's clear that, at first, don is going to have to guide him through.

laura k said...

I am very happy. Here is why.

1. I am in my backyard.
2. It is beautiful out.
3. I am listening to baseball on the radio. (Thank you, internet)
4. My dogs are lounging beside me.
5. I am being paid for the day.

Now, my dear Red Sox, please do not ruin a lovely day.

laura k said...

"Let me, at the risk of piling on, L-Girl you for a moment."

!!! :)

allan said...

i like that!

Rob said...

Starting to rain at Fenway...

laura k said...

The DP, or my name as a verb?

allan said...

Evans saying Wake has 3 different types of knucklers. Talk more about that, Dewey! Explain!

allan said...

DP

allan said...

HA - FUCK YOU SHEFF!

laura k said...

That would be interesting to know.

Bye Bye Gary!

Rob said...

It's a big, blossoming thunderstorm over Boston right now. They'll be lucky to play through it, but it's such a small cell it'd be a very short delay.

laura k said...

Gary Sheffield as a Met, doesn't get much worse for me. He's just about my least favourite player in any uni, put him in that one... *shudder*

allan said...

he mentioned

a regular one that flutters

one that drops off the table/curveball-style

one that goes moves in to RHB

Edward Lee said...

Barth's evaluation of Papelbon's performance so far is accurate. Papelbon has given up almost as many walks (11) as he has given up in each of the last three seasons (8,15,13). His K rate is still excellent, but he's been getting hit hard (it's not like he's been getting dinked to death with bloop hits). He is very fortunate to have converted the first 16 saves in a row.

That being said, he's not vacating the closer role anytime soon, and I fully expect his form to pick up for the rest of the season.

laura k said...

Thanks, A.

Re Barth on Bot, his evaluation may (or may not) be accurate, but his conclusions are not.

allan said...

Now the kid announcers only say the names? No "batting 4th" or their position? What -- takes too much time, NESN? Boo.

Rob said...

LMAO. Dewey: "You've got a round bat and a round ball and he hit it pretty good."

laura k said...

Hail? Lightning?

Rob said...

Don says hail is falling at Fenway.

allan said...

Joe West in a light blue shirt -- gettin' wet!

allan said...

some camera shots -- it looks a bit like snow!

Rob said...

Out comes the tarp.

laura k said...

Well, that was fast. See you all later.

allan said...

don CANNOT believe this rain!

9casey said...

See ya all later, going to friends to let the kids fish and ride in the boat, friends with benefits....

Rob said...

"It's like one cloud over Fenway Park"

Pretty much.

laura k said...

A, can you email me when they resume?

allan said...

don says there is one big cloud over FP

Rob said...

1 inch hail falling in Needham, southwest of Boston.

allan said...

friends with benefits....

?

or maybe

!

Rob said...

Still no severe weather warnings though.

Rob said...

Dwight thinks interleague play should have NL rules no matter where the game is played.

Rob said...

Or wait. NL rules at AL parks and AL rules at NL parks.

laura k said...

"friends with benefits....

?

or maybe

!"

I wondered about that, too. But they're bringing the kids, so the benefits must be the boat.

Rob said...

Severe thunderstorm warning just south of Boston. South meaning three or four miles south of Fenway.

allan said...

PHI: 002
MFY: 00

allan said...

Globe at 2PM:
The heavy showers have let up, the grounds crew is pulling up the tarp and it looks like the delay's ending. Light rain is still falling as the crew pours more dirt on the field to make up for a soggy infield.

Anonymous said...

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=box&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no

laura k said...

Trying to get my audio connection back...

Zenslinger said...

Yes, I was using your name as a verb there, Laura.

Rob said...

Game's back on.

Rob said...

79 degrees before the thunderstorm, 64 degrees now.

laura k said...

Zen, I like it. :)

Anonymous said...

Ortiz needs to go down to Paw town at this point if you ask me.

Anonymous said...

Jeff Natale has numbers of

.313 .425 .500 .925,

I would call him up.

laura k said...

crap

laura k said...

Jere is at the game today.

allan said...

fucking omir.

laura k said...

bbay

laura k said...

It wasn't Omir. It was the other catcher, Castro.

allan said...

bah - they all suck.

laura k said...

Drewble!

laura k said...

"bah - they all suck"

no argument there

allan said...

but not an assdrewble.

laura k said...

DOCTOR!!!!!!!

allan said...

yay

where the fuck was that yesterday?

Anonymous said...

Doctor Dong!

laura k said...

Trivia from Castig: Tim Redding's great aunt was Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie on the Honeymooners.

allan said...

dewey: "a changeup ... just what the doctor ordered."

Rob said...

Ha! Evans: Changeup... Just what the doctor ordered."

laura k said...

And unlike last night's trivia q, I heard this one correctly.

Zenslinger said...

Doctorlicious!

laura k said...

19!

Anonymous said...

19.

allan said...

19 down, 38 to go!

Rob said...

AND COUNTING!

laura k said...

Aw, let's just enjoy the streak without highlighting how far he has to go.

Zimmerman made it to 30, that is way impressive. And still so far to go.

allan said...

Clock on the wall says it's time for a quadrangular.

laura k said...

You might want to check that clock.

allan said...

.199

:<(

laura k said...

that is really sad

allan said...

Worse -- his slugging may be below .300. It was .309 coming in.

allan said...

18 game hit streak for evans in 1984 is the longest list

laura k said...

wtf, this is annoying

allan said...

the movement on that last pitch to beltran was crazy -- like a whiffle ball breaking in on him.

Edward Lee said...

No 75 mph fastballs vs Sheffield, please. Thanks in advance.

laura k said...

oh damn, tied!

laura k said...

this just gets better and better. 'nt.

allan said...

we may need some more rain.

Anonymous said...

The delay is catching up to wake?

allan said...

bard was up during that last batter.

laura k said...

double drewble

laura k said...

fat lotta good that did

Anonymous said...

Kottaras double

Anonymous said...

blown bunt

Edward Lee said...

How is Ellsbury so awful at bunting?

laura k said...

he needs a nickname

laura k said...

Ellsbury? That wasn't Green with the blown bunt?

Edward Lee said...

Oops, that was Green. Never mind.

Anonymous said...

That was green who popped up the bunt not LBJ

laura k said...

thanks, i'm listening on radio and easily confused!

Anonymous said...

Well, there goes that inning.

laura k said...

did you say that before ortiz hit or after?

Edward Lee said...

Ortiz hit that ball on the screws, just bad luck there.

laura k said...

that's what it sounded like on the radio

i was just hoping he wasn't saying "there goes that inning" as ortiz was stepping in to bat

Anonymous said...

Before, I'm about at the GET OFF MY FUCKING TEAM point with him.

laura k said...

awful to say that before he bats.

laura k said...

i feel sad and frustrated about papi, but i could never be angry at him. after all, he's big papi! it's not like he's lugo or even coco.

laura k said...

no out there???

Anonymous said...

Wrong base thrown to by Green.

laura k said...

ugh. jed, pls get well soon.

SoSock said...

Greetings
LL fields - prepped and ready
Grandaughter - delivered back to parents after a great Saturday road trip to watch baseball and a sleep over
Corona - opened
Lime - cut
Papi - still not helping, damn.
Me - in for the afternoon. Gardening will have to wait till after the game.
Sox - overdue for a W. Get it done.

Edward Lee said...

Crud. Replay isn't going to help here.

laura k said...

replay, anyone?

Anonymous said...

Another replay..

SoSock said...

GDGD not saying anything - I take it there was some sort of play?

laura k said...

sosock, good checklist :)

here's mine
sunshine: out
shade: i'm under it
patio: on it
dogs: beside me
work: paid day off
red sox: come on already!!! don't be swept by these loser stems!

Edward Lee said...

Hmm...from the home plate camera, looks fair. The original NESN camera shot was from LF and not too helpful.

Zenslinger said...

GDGD: "Play under review: foul ball"

That's a new one.

laura k said...

damn, foul!

Anonymous said...

3-2 pitch..

SoSock said...

I saw your list earlier.
Really envious of the "getting paid" part :)
Now it says "replay"
HR or foul I take it?

laura k said...

radio says you can't tell b/c it was hit so high, hard to get the depth perception?

come on yook, hit one now

laura k said...

oh rats, didn't mean to bore you with it twice! :)

getting paid sans working is VERY rare for me, i have only a tiny number of paid days off a year, and i don't usually use one just to hang out and get stuff done at home. so it's a real luxury.

Rob said...

For a minute there it seemed like the crowd was coordinated in their cheers. What I heard was... "Let's go Red Sox! Let's go Mets! Let's go Red Sox! Let's go Mets!" lol.

Edward Lee said...

Watching the home plate camera, I thought I saw the ball hit the foul pole, but I'm watching on pretty low resolution on MLB.TV.

laura k said...

ok señor fuego, get this done

Rob said...

And then the crowd also gets together to chant Yankees suck.

What a game Drew's having eh? ON FIRE today!

Anonymous said...

40 year old rookie?!
It's happened once before but what is this guy's story?

SoSock said...

Drew! - setting up the Doc.
Get some good out it Mikey.

laura k said...

who is the 40 y/o rookie?

"And then the crowd also gets together to chant Yankees suck."

Too many Mets fans also like the Yankees. I used to hear that all the time.

Edward Lee said...

Ugh. Lowell just watched a 2-run HR go by.

SoSock said...

After reading Ish's comment I glanced at the box.
3 for 3!

laura k said...

docingle!

Edward Lee said...

Yes, please leave Redding in so he can get a decision. A big fat L.

SoSock said...

Wow, I never thought I would hear myself say this after last year, but.....PH Tek?

laura k said...

what are the odds of kottaras getting 2 hits in one day?

laura k said...

I know, Sosock, I was thinking the same thing.

2-0, maybe he can walk?

laura k said...

GEORGE I'M SORRY!!! YOU ARE GREAT!!!

Rob said...

Yeah I don't see why many aren't fans of both teams since they're in different leagues. The way I am a fan of the Boston sports teams, I'm sure if I grew up in New York I'd be fans of both teams.

But that's just me. Then again how do people become fans of any one team? Everyone has their own story.

Good old Canadian boy!

Anonymous said...

Got 1 back.. Kotty is on fire today!

SoSock said...

I see run(s)!

SoSock said...

A 2-our double, meaning run with contact, and Lowell didn't score?
Damn, is he that slow?

laura k said...

Ish, saying different leagues doesn't account for the history. In pre-Mets days (pre L-girl days too, I will add), the Dodgers and Giants in the NL and the Yankees in the AL were bitter rivals, fans chose sides and there was no middle ground.

A lot of that came over with the Mets. They are rivals for the city's fans. It can be very bitter.

It's almost like saying you root for the Red Sox and the Yankees. No can do.

SoSock said...

That was a 2-out, not a 2-our, double.
Even Papi could have scored if it had been a 2-'our double :)

Rob said...

Sosock, I don't know if you know but I'm pretty sure the game is on TBS so you can watch it on TV if you've got it.

TBS is blacked out here (syndicating Headline News) so that should mean they're showing the Sox game.

laura k said...

Yeah!!! Radio went out and I missed Green's hit. The kids are hot today!

allan said...

4 straight hits and 3 runs -- all after the first two were outs! love it!

laura k said...

How many times did 2 NY teams meet in the WS? (Previous to 2000.) I know I can look it up, but maybe someone knows offhand.

Rob said...

L, yeah. I was going to mention Dodgers and Giants which accounts for fans choosing one or the other.

But what about Chicago? Cubs and White Sox - seems like the same thing happens.

Anonymous said...

SoSock: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/MLB-Live

SoSock said...

Green - ties it up!
And GDGD recaps the whole rundown, complete with all 6 throws listing every position (spelled out, not abbreviated) and full name of every player involved - hilarious!

Zenslinger said...

The GDGD description of that play is five full lines long, including a full rundown of who threw to whom to get Green out.

Anonymous said...

Was that a 7 pitch inning?

laura k said...

OTT for Wake? Or did I miss a batter?

allan said...

7 picthes to 3 stems

i went down the hall to get food, i come back, the inning was over!!!

laura k said...

Ish, in Chicago it's north side vs south side. I'm sure not all fans fit in those categories, but that's the general idea.

In L.A. it's urban vs suburban. Old vs New, Dodgers being old.

Edward Lee said...

Ramon Martinez led off and popped out on the first pitch. NESN missed it.

allan said...

9-3-6-4-5-3

laura k said...

I went inside to get iced coffee! :)

laura k said...

"Ramon Martinez led off and popped out on the first pitch. NESN missed it."

booooooo

I thought NESN cleaned up its act on that. I guess not all the way.

allan said...

Genius update!

(who cares!!)

Dr. Jeff said...

Hi y'all, I don't see many games, living in the southwest and not having mlb.com, but everytime I do see one (today it's on TBS) it seems like Green is caught in a rundown when he tries to stretch a single into a double with men on base. How many times has that happened this year? Hope we can hold the lead, and that the Phils can hold THEIR lead, unlike yesterday or the day before when they gave up 3 in the 9th.

laura k said...

ok meuniermr, hold your fire :)

Anonymous said...

BALK! Undelivered pitch!

laura k said...

You mean Cora?

Did you hear that for one game, he left his glove in his car and couldn't start?

BALK?! Cool!

allan said...

dewey: "what's he going to tell him out there? 'hold onto the ball'?"

laura k said...

Yesterday the Mets announcers were going on about all the crazy stuff their lousy infield has gone through. This included leaving a gloves in the car, someone else bringing the wrong glove, and having to get a different glove Fedexed to someone. They were laughing, but if I were a Mets fans, I wouldn't be laughing!

Edward Lee said...

Ortiz got hosed. Strike 2 was nearly a foot outside.

Anonymous said...

Papi said "I don't believe that shit" in Spanish.

allan said...

cora is not smart enough to use another glove? i'm shocked.

SoSock said...

meuniermr - thanks!
It seems to be about 1/2 inning behind though. I'll play with it.
And thanks to Ish - I can WATCH!
I had no idea it was on TBS :(silly me)

allan said...

That Amica zone is for shit. For one thing, it is not the actual strike zone. It is the teeny tiny zone most ump have decided to use.

For another, the fx data that Benjamin posts shows that pitches outside like that one to Flo are often on the corner or actually in the zone.

allan said...

ATL 9, Jays 2 (8th)

MFY got one in the bot 9th to tie Philly 3-3, still batting?

laura k said...

more canuck ribbies, pls

laura k said...

thank you!!

Anonymous said...

Yes, insurance run..

SoSock said...

OK, I thought I was pretty up on the rulebook, but I didn't know that is a ball only if it crosses the line, otherwise, no pitch.
I did know that it's a balk.

Bay - Canadian bacon!

Rob said...

FIRE-ROASTED RIBEYE!

laura k said...

drew is having a day!

allan said...

The No-Music Man Strikes Again!!!

allan said...

wake at 94
mdc up

laura k said...

fun inning :)

laura k said...

nyy phil in top 10

jays getting thrashed in atl

Anonymous said...

R Ibanez singled to center

allan said...

don: "pagan strikes out -- baffled!"

allan said...

MDC TCB!

SoSock said...

OTT for MDC!

laura k said...

nice work from mdc

allan said...

evan mentioning a story about eck he told don but then says he can't repeat it on the air. tease.

Rob said...

NESN showing Eck with Buck Martinez and Chip Caray in the TBS booth. He looks like he's in the sin bin. I wonder if he's actually said anything today. Hard to with Buck in the booth.

allan said...

G-Kot with the three-hit day!

Anonymous said...

Kottaras 3 for 4!

andy said...

Oh that? That's just the runs you could be scoring for insurance

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