Yankees - 240 063 104 - 20 23 1 Red Sox - 100 033 004 - 11 12 1
George A. King III, Post:
What happened in the 2004 ALCS will never be deleted from every mainframe in the Yankees' universe. Not even a World Series title this season completely will erase those painful Red Sox memories that will haunt multiple generations.Something "special"? Is the possibility of extending a division lead in the middle of August "special"? Should it happen, is it "special" enough to warrant an ice cream reward?
Yet starting tonight in New England's living room, the Yankees can extract a wee bit of revenge by burying their blood rivals in the AL East race. Or they can allow the Red Sox to climb off the canvas and turn the final six weeks of the season into a two-way scoreboard-watching orgy.
"We have a chance to do something special against them," manager Joe Girardi said of his club, which leads the Red Sox by 6½ games after Boston blew out the Blue Jays 8-1 last night.
The Red Sox will emerge from this three-game weekend battle 3.5, 5.5, 7.5 or 9.5 GB the Yankees -- with 38 games remaining in the regular season.
A Boston series sweep -- as the Red Sox have done to the Yankees thrice this season, on April 24-25-26 and May 4-5 and June 9-10-11 -- would make things very interesting once again in the AL East, especially since the two teams will meet again, in New York, on September 25-26-27.
Tonight's game begins a 10-game homestand at Fenway Park. Twenty of the Red Sox's next 25 games are against the Yankees, White Sox, Rays and Angels. It is essential that they continue the strong pitching and hitting performances they showed in Toronto. The Yankees -- 25-9 since the All-Star break, including a four-game sweep of the Sox on August 6-7-8-9 -- have not won a game at Fenway Park since September 28, 2008.
Horseface started against the Red Sox on August 9 in New York, pitching seven scoreless innings and allowing only five hits; he took the loss back on April 26. Penny turned in a 6-6-0-1-5 line against New York on June 11.
Weekend pitching match-ups:
In other news, Michael Kay is an asshole. (Do not miss the twitter link!)Sat 4 PM: A.J. Burnett / Junichi Tazawa Sun 8 PM: CC Sabathia / Josh Beckett
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Craig Hansen maybe?
There is no size screen that could compensate for Michael Kay. OK, I'll just try to ignore the Kay comments while you enjoy your big screen.
Lucchino & JH in the booth to welcome Jerry back.
Er... Am I missing something?
Is that Brad Penny pitching? Or am I hallucinating?
JESUS!!!!
ESPN AMerica has the NESN feed! Doh!
Like Remy, it's time for the Red Sox to get back to work.
Wow, we can't catch a fucking break
Don & Jerry are trying to get rid of them. Don all but said, leave now.
Oh hallefuckinglujah a double play!
DP!
Apologies to all....
(To explain - we have the game on two channels. ESPN UK and their European affiliate ESPN AMerica. I never thought for one minute we'd have separate feeds!)
Okay, maybe we can catch a break.
Ha ha Lord, that's great. Now you have to stay up a while longer.
We are going to win this game.
Seriously. We are.
No, really.
tito clearly hoping to buy an extra inning from shithead here.
England are going to win the Ashes. Seriously. We are. Probably. Maybe. Oh we'll blow it.
it's been quite awhile since we had some 'freud.
Nah, it's my fault. You should be able to vent on the thread. If I didn't spend so much real time listening to *someone* complain about announcers, I'd be a bit less sensitive to it... hum de dum...
Sorry, L!
penny bought himself another inning.
Penny gets 2 Ks and a DP in one inning.
Won't see that too often.
wow - shitty swing.
could the sox batters at least LOOK like they have a clue up there?
OMG he's out at 3rd
FY = Idiot
And on that Keystone Cop moment. Adieu. Bon Soir. Auf Wiedersehn.
I don't think there's a good solution to the starting pitching problem anytime soon.
Wow... DP getting a bit greedy there. Man, it's gonna be one of those nights, huh....
Damn bad move getting thrown out at 3rd with 2 outs down by 5. Why FY why?
I'm speechless
i hate these games where the sox fall behind by 4-5 runs and then go up flailing away at any ol' pitch and being stupid on the bases. no fucking plan, no fucking smarts.
remy lovin' jetes.
sigh.
With the Sox down by five Remy needs to keep the jeterating to a minimum, lest I freak the fuck out.
don't they all
Poor Jerry, trying to do a little pbp while Don's audio was messed up!
TB 2 - TEX 0
OTT
too little too late
And Penny remembers how to pitch two innings after we needed him to
Red Sox fans care sooooo much more about the Yankees than the other way around.
(despite me posting on this Red Sox blog)
Hey look - it's Mr. Monday Morning
QB!!!!!!!!!
Say how did that Tigers series turn out?
"Red Sox fans care sooooo much more about the Yankees than the other way around."
Oh, great point. And so relevant.
After the MFY got blown apart by the Tigers, we called for you to reappear:
"Guuuuuuuuuuutch, Guuuuuuuuuuutch" we called, yet you hid from us.
Well the Red Sox game sucks, but a thunderstorm came through and I hit the GOLD MINE!!! Got quite a few good lightning shots. FINALLY!!!
Fucking Gutch! What the hell boy, we sweep you 8-0 and you are nowhere to be found, but now you come around talking smack? Fuck You Gutch
You see any of us posting on Yankees blogs?
No, you do not.
You see Yankees "fans" posting on this Red Sox blog?
Yes, you do.
Gutch: if you don't care, GO AWAY. We will not miss you.
When the Yankees won the first game of the 2006 ALDS, we all said they got lucky and would not win again.
Gutch took strong exception, accusing us of Monday morning quarterbacking (though the games had not yet been played). The MFY lost 3 in a row and their season was over.
And cowardly Gutch never returned.
UNTIL NOW!
"despite me posting on this Red Sox blog"
LOL look the troll has a limited grasp of irony. How cute!
A, you're asking Gutch about the Tigers series, he probably doesn't even remember that. He stopped cheering for the Yankees the next day, and started again last month.
Ugh... Bay crushes one on a line and it's right at Hinske. An fortunately for Hinske too, because dude has the range of dead squirrel.
I wonder if, in his off hours, Hinske shows off his World Series win ring to Teixeira, Cano, Swisher, Matsui, A-Rod, Cabrera, Sabathia, and Burnett.
UNTIL NOW!
Aaaaaaigh, the fuggin' DRAMA.
accusing us of Monday morning quarterbacking (though the games had not yet been played)
I guess that would be Saturday night quarterbacking?
I wonder if, in his off hours, Hinske shows off his World Series win ring to Teixeira, Cano, Swisher, Matsui, A-Rod, Cabrera, Sabathia, and Burnett.
:-D
Gutch: You are wrong.
DFA him
HERE is the infamous Gutch thread.
That's gotta be it for Penny. That was a 1-2 pitch that Slappy hit off the top of the monster. You just CAN'T throw a 1-2 pitch over the heart of the plate like that.
Finafuckingly, buh bye Penny, we hate you
Right as they went to commercial you could hear Remy go "UGH!"
I second that.
I love in that thread how both L and I say right away "4 games" - NYY will not win another one.
And so it came to pass.
Chokers.
Who cares anyway? Hating the Yankees is fun. I'm not gonna apologize for doing it to one of their asshole fans. I'd never post on their blogs though. Trolling and smack talking is stupid.
You know, I'm really starting to question Theo's whole low-risk high-reward strategy
It's seemed to have worked out as low-risk low-reward
Saito's really the only guy who has lived up to my expectations
Imagine us old farts behaving in this manner. Shocking. Disgraceful!
Oh fuck
Oh fuck that did not just happen
damn
redsock said...
Guuuuuuuuuuuutch?
Where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?
Sun Oct 08, 12:24:00 PM
*************
fuckin' shemp.
Fuck, Penny could have done THAT
So, it's one of these games.
Who cares anyway? Hating the Yankees is fun. I'm not gonna apologize for doing it to one of their asshole fans.
Right, nor should you or anyone else. And the feelings are obviously mutual, and it's just "protesting too much" on their part when they say otherwise.
"I'd never post on their blogs though. Trolling and smack talking is stupid.
But they only do it when they're winning. No sign of them otherwise.
Bowden reminds me of Joe Blanton.
Who cares? I do.
He talked big on a Red Sox blog and didn't have the guts to show up when his team went down the tubes -- in exactly the way we said it would. He ran off and hid for almost three years. And now he comes back? Fuckin' A right I'll rip him.
Well, before that HR I still thought we were going to win this game. Now I'll just say this series will not be a sweep.
Well shit, I care about that too.
Irid said "who cares" about so what if we think about and hate the Yankees, no shame in that. Who cares to what Gutch said.
I'm getting a distinct Game 3 rout vibe from this one.
So far I'm not enjoying the Bowden era.
Damn you, Fangraphs! Never tell me the odds!
How does this team go from totally dominant against Toronto to THIS?
Good outing by Wake.
How does this team go from totally dominant against Toronto to THIS?
The answer to that question claims to puke every time he pitches.
Bill Simmons tweet: Brad Penny throws 96 with tons of movement. Unfortunately, it's bowel movement.
Just like us. We throw up every time he pitches too.
I don't puke, I just die a little inside.
I'm hoping maybe Pettitte pitches shittily after sitting for so long.
Bill his usual witty self.
I blame Remy.
Fuck, Javier Lopez could have done this for us
Lopez? Shit, I could've done this. This is straight embarrassing and I hope we come out tomorrow and show some fight.
Memo to Theo. Having many below average pitchers does not equal
"pitching depth"
mdc up
Yeah, guess we better get the pen back up. Or, we could just let Bowden rot out there and see if the Yankees can break 50.
tito deciding to warm-up a major league pitcher to work for the sox tonight.
I blame Lugo.
44 pitches, 23 balls, 2/3 of an inning
I was really, really wrong about thinking Bowden would be an improvement
this game is a test of remy's meds.
"I blame Lugo."
Don't we all?
I hope they leave Bowden out there for a while. Maybe he can straighten himself out and barring a miracle the Sox aren't going to win this game anyway. May as well save the bullpen.
Too bad Penny wasn't still in there.
I can't believe I said that.
might as well do some work, with nesn in my ear.
Rico Suave to PH for the Fiery One
"barring a miracle the Sox aren't going to win this game anyway."
At this point we're going to need somewhere around eight miracles to win this one.
sign of life?
Do we actually have two runners on base?
Orsillo just said the Red Sox weren't very good from '65 to '75. Um '67?
Even though a loss is a loss is a loss, it would still be nice to score a few runs.
The headline on redsox.com:
"Ellsbury Ties Harper's record, Scores in First"
Yeah, I guess I wouldn't bring up the whole 12-1 thing either.
I'm back!
And - OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK?????
BRB, going to check the liquor cabinet.
Did he say that? I'm listening, and I didn't hear that.
Good time to tune in! Now let's fuckin bat around a few times!
I'd love to see Joe get nervous about the lead.
Of course, that would involve a Red Sox pitcher not allowing any more runs. Hmm.
It sounded like he said "The Red Sox and Yankees weren't very good from '65 to '75". Maybe I heard it wrong.
Lyndon!
Tim, you're very prompt! You said 9:30 and 9:30 it is.
I thought he said the rivalry wasn't very big then.
The headline on redsox.com:
"Ellsbury Ties Harper's record, Scores in First"
Yeah, I guess I wouldn't bring up the whole 12-1 thing either.
The headline on redsox.com:
"Ellsbury Ties Harper's record, Scores in First"
Yeah, I guess I wouldn't bring up the whole 12-1 thing either.
Here we go!!!
THIS LINEUP!
Keep that fucking line moving, boys.
Nice to hear Remy :)
WOW what am I saying?!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you're going to miss a few innings of one Sox game this year you picked a perfect time, Tim
ALIVE.
... and FY decides to stick with a double.
A 15-14 win would be fine with me.
FY!
Tim, here's my game recap.
Penny sucks.
Bowden sucked.
LBJ tied Tommy Harper for steals.
WTG Dustin! making it slightly less sucky at least.
I would love to see a blue light special here
Bitch Tits looked Grampa-esque trying to go to his right for that one.
You guys must love seeing FY and Jeter pal around.
They are friends, you know.
Oo wait, gamethread recap. We had an old NYY troll *from 4 years ago* come back!
the key will be keeping these cocktrumpets off the board the rest of the way
"I thought he said the rivalry wasn't very big then."
Yeah but I thought he gave as a reason that neither team was very good then. Maybe he was just talking about the Yankees and I heard it wrong.
Thanks for the update, L.
Checked the box and I'm almost ready for beer #2.
Dammit to hell. More runs pls.
Fuck.
Damn, I was thinking 12-6 there. But ok, we're clawing back.
Just quickly perused thru the thread. Cool to see ish got his lightning pics. I told ya, it was amazing yesterday on the way into T.O. If it's the same storm, you were guaranteed some sweet shots.
Let's hope their bullpen blows up
WTF FRANCONA? WHY ARE YOU CONCEDING THIS GAME YOU SHITHEAD??????
Green is in LF?
Well, Francona just gave up by taking Youk out for Defensive Firstbaseman #1.
Dammit Tito, why the FUCK is Green in left field?!?!
Honestly, I don't get it. I mean, it's the sixth inning, we just dropped three on them and... you know what? Never fucking mind.
Damn I hate Dumbo.
Re Kotch Rocket: He could have at least swapped Lowell out and put Youk at third to help the defense.
Oh great, leadoff double.
Gonna go threadless for a while. I'll come back when it's 12-9.
I hate to say it, but that's it for me too. I've gotta get up early tomorrow.
Two out of three: we start tomorrow, folks! GO SOX!
Alright, we are rapidly approaching the point where the only way that I can have any good feelings about this game is if the benches clear
Well, we've now wasted the last inning...
... so much for the 3 we got.
Francona's Brain: "Alright Tito, this is bad. It'll take some quick thinking to get us back in this. Some innovative, crazy thinking. Here's what I'm thinking - we take out Yook and Bay -"
Tito: "Wait a minute, brain. Those are our two best hitters."
Brain: "Exactly! We take them out, and put Kotchman at first and Green in left field -"
Tito: "Green in left? But he's an infielder"
Brain: "Exactly! It'll fuck with them! They won't know what to do, and while their busy asking themselves what the fuck you're doing, we'll score 8 runs and tie it up!"
Tito: "But -"
Brain: "Ah ah ah - no buts, this is a guaranteed win-win"
Tito: *sigh* "Fine brain, you win. This time."
I'd much rather do this than pay attention to the poopfest @ fenway going on on the left side of my computer screen.
I'm really getting sick of these "Friday Night Shit Starter is Shit so we put in a PawSox pitcher to get shelled" nights.
... but as long as NESN stays on the air, I'm listening.
YES. That fantastic defensive play by Kotchman. That'll get us back into this thing!
Can't wait for Wake and Dice!!! :)
I can't wait for Wake
Dice...depends highly on whether or not Tazawa gets the job done tomorrow
yay - bowden retires 2 consecutive batters for the first time!!!
Watching ESPN... I see it's the Boston Red Sox against Peabody, MA little league team.
On NESN? The New York Yankees against the Texas little league team.
Yeah, hopefully the junebug can get his shit together tomorrow. I still think they moved him along mighty fast, Bowden should've been up first. (Dunno about that thought now though - but it's a brutal situation for him to come into) - but yeah, I want to see Taz go devil on their ass. (3 seconds into that clip - that's what I want to see on the mound before every pitch tomorrow)
I didn't say I wasn't watching! I only said I wasn't *threading*.
I watch all 9. Or however many there are.*
* Except west coast games because I fall asleep.
Green and Kotch Rocket come in and they both get hits to start the inning
Ha
Good start. Now, I wanna see more dongs than a doorbell convention.
Well, hit and error, but that's good enough for me
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Don't tease me, Red Sox, You'll only hurt me more.
That's what is called the Outfield Bermuda Triangle.
These fuckers are getting my hopes up agian
Let's score 20
let's take this nazi to nuremberg.
DOCTOR NEEDLETHREADER!
LOADED
i know bowden is here for just this reason and tito doesn't want to burn the pen with tazawa tomorrow, but fuck it all, i wish he was more proactive and it was 11-5 or so now.
Alright, baldy. A bit further than last time would be just swell.
can baldy give us a shaved dong?
Grand Salami from the Ball Deli?
BBALDELLRBI!
rBBi
Big bats comin up now...
They tease me so badly. Stop!
This would be fucking EPIC!
18-16!
Prepare to face the wrath of the Sea Bass
If this were Toronto, 3/4 of the crowd would've left 2 innings ago.
"18-16!"
I remember that game
Poor Charlie Zink
Bury this Nazi fucker.
How about a nice 19-18 win ;)
be smart, fish face.
I bet if this were LA there'd be nobody left.
Bruney's a nazi?
Guess I should check the gloss.
That must've been a very inspiring conversation.
"Throw it down the middle, asshole."
noooo slingbox dont fail me now
whew. crisis averted.
I love this crowd. Living and dying with every pitch. Trailing 15-6. How many people have left Fenway? Three?
Oh, the Zink game was 19-17
My bad
swung at ball 4 :(
we need mega-runs this inning - this is a gift -- take it!
FUCK YOU SEABASS
Cock.
as a hitter, he's a good fielder.
That's not really what I was looking for there...
Within eight.
No biggie.
Wow, mega squander
that died out in a hurry. going to hook up the computer to the tv and watch fullscreen for a bit.
bye for now
Well, if we keep them scoreless and we keep scoring 3 per inning, we win this
i noticed the crowd too. rockin' with even the hint of a rally!
man, that inning went poof real quick.
Well... We've scored 1 run for each out in the last 6 outs. We have 9 outs left. And down by 8.
So... Keep them from scoring again and we're golden.
MDC time.
mdc in
tek in too
Damn. Cactus in? We've just conceded this game.
the bench is bare.
this is our comeback lineup.
Oh great, Cactus behind the plate...
Actually that's brilliant to put him in there. The Yankees can run all they want tonight and then tire themselves out for the next two games.
This is fucking retarded.
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