Red Sox - 010 100 100 - 3 8 0 Rangers - 012 001 00x - 4 11 1Facing C.J. Wilson in the eighth inning, Mike Lowell lined a one-out single to left and Casey Kotchman walked.
Nick Green pinch-ran for Lowell.
First and second and one out seemed like a decent chance to score a run, but the Red Sox had Brian Anderson and Alex Gonzalez coming up. ... Both hitters [sic] looked at strike three.
Junichi Tazawa (4.05, 116 ERA+) / Dustin Nippert (3.62, 124 ERA+)
Junichi Tazawa (4.05, 116 ERA+) / Dustin Nippert (3.62, 124 ERA+)
With his win against the Tigers in his last start, Tazawa became the youngest Japanese-born pitcher to win his first career major league start (23 years, 66 days old).
Daniel Paulling, mlb.com:
Including Saturday, the Red Sox have made seven roster moves in the last 11 days and 10 over the last 16. They have used 46 different players so far, just one shy of their mark (47) from last season. The Red Sox have used 22 pitchers this year, also just one behind the 23 the number they used last season.Clay Buchholz explains his baserunning adventure. ... Tim Wakefield threw 3.2 innings (63 pitches) for Pawtucket yesterday. He allowed three hits, two runs and one walk, and struck out three.
4 PM: Yankees/Mariners.
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1 – 200 of 204 Newer› Newest»1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. Victor Martinez, C
4. Jason Bay, LF
5. David Ortiz, DH
6. Mike Lowell, 3B
7. Casey Kotchman, 1B
8. Brian Anderson, RF
9. Alex Gonzalez, SS
1. Julio Borbon, LF
2. Michael Young, 3B
3. David Murphy, DH
4. Marlon Byrd, CF
5. Josh Hamilton, RF
6. Ian Kinsler, 2B
7. Hank Blalock, 1B
8. Taylor Teagarden, C
9. Elvis Andrus, SS
Ugh, Lowell should not be hitting after Ortiz.
Must ... Go ... R ... L ... R ... L ... (/robot)
That must be one of the worst lineups fielded this year.
Dustin Nippert - on the all-racist team?
Here's his catcher.
Mickey Mantle
Naturally, this team would be located in Cleveland.
Ugh. Fuck. Shit. Piss.
Damn...eff the Rangers and their good defense
Fuck. DO just said the way its set up, Tek catches Beckett and Lester.
The two games I'm going to this week. Sigh. Looks like I'll be seeing a lot of automatic outs and cactuses behind the plate.
Fuck. Mike Young is a sox killa.
"Looks like I'll be seeing a lot of automatic outs and cactuses behind the plate."
I think the C on his shirt actually stands for Cactus
lol, makes sense.
Wonder if we'll see a brawl today. Keep it going for Junichi.
Le sigh...
Freaking bunt single
crap
I'm happy to be seeing Beckett. I'll deal with the Cactus.
At least we'll have Yook back, and hopefully Drew. Will lessen the effects of the cactus slightly.
Last year when Tay and I went to Baltimore for a pair we got a god-awful outing by Dice on Sat. night, but Beckett threw a gem Sunday to make it all better. Hope he does the same for you guys. He's a joy to watch when he's right.
tp pls
Really could use a K here
great.......
nice start Taz :(
Okay...really could use a double play now
Yeah, Beckett will be sweet. I don't think I've seen him yet...well maybe last year. Not sure.
But at least I'll be missing Halladay.
Wiggle time.
And LBJ might break the single-season SB mark on Tuesday!
At 53 now - 1 to tie, 2 sets a new record
YES!
NICE
Now THATS how ya debate!
Wiggle!
Houdini!
etc etc
FLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FLO!!!
LARGE PATERNAL DONG!!
Yayyyyyyy!!!!
WHOA - TIZZLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
uh, hello!
That was an angry home run!
Guess Ortiz read comment #2!
feels a bit odd to have a lead.
Guess Ortiz read comment #2!
Maybe he read last week's SI.
E-n Kinsler
8 and 9 performing as expected.
WTF was that play from last night (Anderson) - jesus christ...
that anderson pull-up will stick in my mind for a long time when i think of him. it's unfair, probably, but that was BAD.
WHITE LINES blow you away...
Anyone have the radio on?
Today in history:
Babe Ruth dies
Elvis Presley dies
Jimy is fired
Fuck...
Ian fuckface.
3-0 dong? Shit.
...
Angell's piece on that Darling-Viola duel is fantastic. I think he watches it with Smoky Joe Wood's grandson.
Yeah. Obie went all Cap'n Intangibles on Varitek...
Castig mentioned Kinsler called the Red Sox clubhouse to apologize for barking at Tek after getting hit last night...
Obie said, "I think that was a good move on Kinsler's part. You don't want to be on Jason Varitek's bad side."
Anyone have the radio on?
Today in history:
Babe Ruth dies
Elvis Presley dies
Jimy is fired
The Who played Woodstock...
Obie said, "I think that was a good move on Kinsler's part. You don't want to be on Jason Varitek's bad side."
But maybe Tek turns and runs from a fight the way he quickly goes from a SASAHE to the bench!
Castig called the Kinsler homer right before the pitch.
lucky bounce on that one.
get the 3rd out, taz
Lucky break there
Get the third out
Man, Ellsbury almost had that...
Tazawa = Saturn Nuts, Jr.
First Viola story:
1984, Twins in pennant race, in Texas for day game, hot, twins up 1-0 after 6, Frank gets first out in 7th, catcher tim laudner comes out, says "you're pitching too well, i need some tv time!"
Looking at FV's logs, the day was September 16, 1984. Twins 1-0 after 6, Laudner was catcher. BUT Viola walked the first guy in the 7th. If it happened, it was probably the 6th.
I say he got this one right.
Nice hit.
Why is the Rangers manager wearing a towel around his neck. I see all the people in the stands fanning themselves.
Ugh...
I have a bad feeling about this game...
i've been getting those pretty much every day now. but we're facing dustin freakin' nippert for fuck's sake. that ought to be goosd for about 6 runs.
Taz:
PC going down: 22-17-14
but RA going up: 0-1-2
This seems promising
Lead-off walk.
Almost always bodes ill for us, maybe it will for them.
PC going down: 22-17-14
but RA going up: 0-1-2
that's highly unusual )
It'd be nice for the Red Sox to, you know, turn this around. Especially today.
I need SOMETHING to go right for me today, because my optimism for later is almost non-existent.
If your bats are struggling, just walk - nice strategy.
Wheels!
What the hell - did Kotch swing 1st pitch after 7 strt. balls by Nippert?
WHEELS!!!
why did kotch hack at the first pitch after 8 of 9 pitches were ball?????
kevin + sosock = redsock!
seabass double!
Sea Bass double!
Infield defense!
Such a sight for sore eyes
So, apparently Kotch did swing 1st pitch. GDGD has the whole inning screwed up. Shows 4 pitches thrown to him, but the FIRST one says "in play, out(s)"
I guess you're thinking you should get a good pitch to hit after 7 strt balls, but....I dunno. Ida wanted hin to take at leat 1.
Tazawa > 2009 Smoltz
He hasn't given up 5 runs in a game yet!
how about some more "good times", flo?
J-Bay.
Now if we can get a multi-dong day out of Papi......
Ida prefered the double dong, but the 8 balls will do.
wait....did I say that?
Bleh
GDGD shows an inside ch-up. That's a pitch that should be crushed
Heidi is very shiny today.
VMart being VTek, standing up...
Sheez, that was dangerous. Nice play by LBJ.
Don't get hurt Jacoby!
And sign that kid in the stands to a contract.
FY play from FY!
F-Y!!!
Taz at 89.
Fuck yeah!
Something good! I might add.
Oh woops. Didn't take my last comment.
Flebotomy! That's when FY does something GOOD that causes opposition LOBotomy! I just made that up. Go me.
Petey saves a run. Now let's make the good play count.
NESN's Coors Light freeze cam promo showed just... a blur where Pedroia was sliding to get the ball. Freeze frame! Blur.
Be... offensive! Be be offensive!
K, I'll stop.
Casey at the bat.
Casey on the base.
Do not squander
damn
squanderage
The Brian Anderson Era has not filled me with glee.
This team is not helping my uber-crappy mood.
The Josh Reddick era at least came with some offense... Not to mention some Pedroia-like cockiness.
"This team is not helping my uber-crappy mood."
Same here.
Come on Sox, win it for L and Ish!
Your timing, L, is not exactly impeccable.
:(
damn
We should have traded for him...
Shit
But hey. It was only a solo dong.
Hits keep on coming.
Time to go, Junichi.
2 Laser Shots - time for a change
Yeah, really not having a good feeling about this game
I might've spoken way too soon, saying Tazawa hasn't given up 5runs in a start yet.
My bad.
Dave O'Brien's not helping much. He acts like if we don't hold the lead for the WC at the end of this game, we will not win the WC.
I see Tito agrees. Didn't see who was coming in.
Dave O'Brien would be better suited calling play-by-play for the movie Jaws.
jeemer
"Didn't see who was coming in."
Oki
From one Mt. Fijiman to another.
Oki it is.
Be good.
scrotum
Please don't make me navigate the icy waters of uncertainty with a Red Sox loss. Please.
viola calls the bunt "a lost art"
they were saying that when i was a kid -- before viola's career started!
i wonder if frank was always an nostalgic old fart, or if it developed as soon as he retired.
Needed that
Score some runs!
D FUCKING P!
now RUN(S)!
YES!
whew
So we've got an analyst who looks like he came straight out of 70s porn... Now we have an analyst who looks like he came straight out of 80s porn.
No pun intended.
2 line drive DPs in 1 day - highly unusual.
2nd highly unusual in 1 day - highly unusualer
this is one of those days where 4-2 seems like 9-2.
eck would be totally believable as the door-to-door "cheese" salesman who rings the doorbell of the scantily-clad divorcee.
That was just mean.
Not a good day for our lead-off man so far
FUCK YEAH!!!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!
Laser Show!!
DONG!!!!!!!!!!!!
4-3
FY: never say die
5th home run this month, 6th since the All-Star Break
Tying run on base
Nice
When I heard Viola for the 1st time last night, I was really surprised they put him on the air. It's a bias of mine - not good. But to me his heavy accent makes him sound really stupid. Add that to what he's saying... announcer fail.
Actually - you CAN repeat it often enough.
Maybe even too often.
Time for Jason to dump Mr. Mathis in Thunder Bay.
WOW did you see the play at the plate in the Trop? Who was that... Hill? Went busting into the catcher who was blocking the plate. He got the ball in time but he never really tagged him. Hill just shoved him out of the way, touched home plate and was safe.
Instead Jason is a victim of Mathis Murder.
shit
How does this team hit into so many double plays?
we've been over this. :>)
lots of guys on base.
9-2 now seems like a one-run deficit.
Going into today's games, they had 103 DP. 2nd in AL behind Clev -- 104.
So there have been a lot.
RamRam back up.
ram x2 up
Ram^2?
So Dave O'B thinks that the Red Sox could not make up 0.5 game in 45 games?
When I heard Viola for the 1st time last night, I was really surprised they put him on the air. It's a bias of mine - not good. But to me his heavy accent makes him sound really stupid. Add that to what he's saying... announcer fail.
Ron Darling is calling the game on TBS. Is that what you would consider a Mass. accent? It sounds Mass. to me.
He's actually pseudo-Canadian.
The Red Sox could make up half a game by going through customs tomorrow. Rangers play the Twins tomorrow while Sox are off.
Ron Darling just sounds funny to me. But I like him. Just as long as he doesn't get sucked into the Buck Martinez OR-tiz vortex.
NICK - if you are out there, try that log-in during the game.
I've got TBS here also.
So, when's the last time Flo hit 2 in a day?
I'd like to see some dongs right about now
"So, when's the last time Flo hit 2 in a day?"
I know he had two in one inning last year in the Charlie Zink 19-17 game against the Rangers
Looks like the last was September 17th last year against the Rays
Looks like it will not happen today...
nice
Time for a Kotch Rocket
are we sure drew cannot hit?
(he hit the dong after he asked out and tito said no the other night.)
Well, TBS sez that was a strike.
Don't we have anyone who can hit for Gonzo?
At least he didn't GIDP
Come on Sea Bass!
what are the odds s-bass gets a hit?
God our bats suck
Painfully predictable at bat.
Crap. Wicked break. Looked a tad high.
what the hell?
That was NOT a strike.
SHIT
Gonzo could power the Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and its Improbability Drive.
Eh, it was borderline
Definitely not a pitch you take with two strikes
alright. hold 'em here and we have the top of the order in the 9th (against o'day?).
Francisco warming.
bard up
old friend francisco up now!
Also known as Frank Gagne.
FY has never homered twice in one game
I'd like to see that change today
Eh, it was borderline
Definitely not a pitch you take with two strikes
I know, batters who take borderline pitches with two strikes and two outs is a huge pet peeve of mine.
J.D. Drew, I'm looking in your direction.
Is it just me or is Ram^2 not getting much behind his fastballs?
Hold The Line, Pedro!
GDGD says only 3 this inning: 89, 91 and 92.
Alright, time for a rally
88, 91, 92
TBS just mentioned an old college match-up between Darling and Viola. Then showed Viola over in the other booth.
You're right - straight out of the porn studio!
runs plz - NOW!
SEA 2, MFY 1 (bot 3)
Francisco's got a 25.50 ERA against the heart of the order.
viola just called francisco's last outing "shaky".
understatement.
A freaking disaster would be my analysis.
Why am I not in the booth?
Tough day at the office for LBJ.
Hope he gets another chance :)
Maybe Ellsbury should lose the sunglasses at the plate. I had coaches who wouldn't let you wear sunglasses when you batted.
Ugh...
WAY too much taking of borderline pitches today!
I'm pissed
Phooey. I'll go see how Tiger is doing.
Pepe and I agree on that one. You DON"T take anything close with 2 strikes.
And the water is clean and we are behind them.
Sux.
Please note: we are out of the wild card lead - today. Not out of the wild card race.
Stupid clean water.
I hope this isn't an indication of things to come later. Cock.
Actually, my brother is at some NASCAR race today in Michigan, maybe I'll turn that on to make sure he isn't getting killed.
MFY: 001 2
SEA: 002
Is it just me, or are the Mariners the worst .500+ team ever?
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