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
503 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 503 of 503Not a good way to start the inning...
It really sucks when the bats come alive in a blowout and not only are guys getting pulled, but your pitchers can't stop the bleeding.
So... Now we'll just tie it at the end of the 9th. Then win it in the 10th.
"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."
Ha
This game feels like it should be a lot closer
5-3 Rays in bottom 8th
Fuck Yeah
Cactus
Kotch Rocket
I feel oddly optimistic about this combination
lmao In between innings there was a WEDDING CEREMONY in the stands.
Congratulations to the lucky and quirky couple.
But they'll have such a great memory of this day. They get married at Fenway Park and the Red Sox come back from a laugher and win.
Saito up.
cactus stands still -- and draws a walk
saito up
Cactus does not SASAHE for once!
Damn! L and I shoulda got married at JoS1.
I'll take that
We're not dead yet
Hey, I heard that!
It's MR. HOMELY!
I said I'd come back to the thread at 12-9. That's not possible, but it can be 16-10 in a minute.
Oh damn, I thought he'd walk in a few more runs before Joe pulled him.
LOADED
I want to see Papi whip out his dong!
i wonder if a pitcher ever had to leave the mound to piss? like he forgot to go before he went to the mound and the inning went on a bit too long?
Marte? I wasn't aware he even existed anymore.
Never made it past the fridge to plug into the TV. Oh well.
Here we go.
And WTF to that couple getting married...
Flo could make it 16-11.
If someone can shit themselves while running the Boston Marathon, you can manage to leak a little out of your peepee on the mound.
I'll take a base knock. Not a double play. Please.
Just keep the line moving.
Although a Rally Killer would be nice. :)
Well, at least he didn't GIDP...
Papi :(
Alright MD! Give these fuckers some RX!
Time for some serious Rx.
Mega squander again...
Instead we have to deal with some malpractice of our own.
Please note that in the first six innings, Boston had only 3 LOB.
Saito may as well hit some Yankees here, set up for the good ol' August "spark" brawl Saturday on FOX...
The Producers on FOX have actually requested that MLB require one of the pitchers on one of the teams to plunk someone.
This game can act as support for a thesis on why wins are a fucking retarded measure for a pitcher to be evaluated on.
I love that.
Castig: "It's 16-7 here at Fenway Park tonight... But tomorrow they will start zero zero at 4:10!"
LOL Orsillo went to the keg??? There's so many better steakhouses.
Nice inning for Saito
So true, ish. Just like one night it was 19-8...
"Saito may as well hit some Yankees here, set up for the good ol' August "spark" brawl Saturday on FOX..."
Save it for Teixeira or A-Rod in the 9th
"This game can act as support for a thesis on why wins are a fucking retarded measure for a pitcher to be evaluated on."
anyone who still believes wins are an important stat for pitchers is pretty much beyond reason I think
Maybe the Yankee douches will be over-confident tomorrow like in '04
Well, we need to remove it from the game. It's embedded in everything, and screws up people for generations to come. We need to get rid of it and not display it anywhere.
Rangers lost to the Rays (a bit of sort of good news)
Not to mention the basis for evaluating HOF pitchers.
Sure, you'll probably get more wins if you are an HOF-caliber pitcher due to the low ERA etc. but christ, they actually use it as a metric to evaluate HOFers still.
Wow, thanks for putting up an effort...
Pat Tabler on the Jays telcast yesterday was talking about how well Lester pitched recently but because he did not get a lot of run support, he got a few no-decisions. Since he did not get a "W", he "had nothing to show for it".
I cannot believe how common this is.
Ugh. Now we're just making it easy.
Oh well, I've got some beers, shisha and the 3 newest Rescue Me waiting for after this game.
So either make me go to bed happy, not having watched Rescue Me at all, or hurry up and end this so I can watch all 3 tonight. Preferably the former.
There's no way I'm watching any ESPN tonight
Tim, I was thinking the same thing re The Keg! They couldn't think of anywhere better than a chain steakhouse. Very adventurous.
Even tho this game (and our pitching) sucked and we squandered so many run scoring opps, I'm relieved to see some hits, walks, runs - relieved that they are/were still in it, not just laying down.
True L, this shitty loss feels somewhat less shittier than the major Friday night dump in the toilet a couple weeks back.
It's usually after a blowout loss like this that the ghosts show up.
Cy Youngs, too - tons of ppl only look at W/L.
It really should be abolished altogether.
The ghost of Keith Foulke?
Alright, first base is open, you know what to do here Ram-Ram
My dad thinks W-L records have importance.
I just shake my head at him and move on.
The Ghosts of '04.
The Fenway Faithless, I see.
"Since he did not get a "W", he "had nothing to show for it".
Yeah it's like people who call walks "free passes" like there's no work involved on the hitter's part in working a walk. Drives me nuts but what are you gonna do?
Mindsets are changing slowly.
Or not
But outs are good too
Headhunt, plz.
The term "free pass" should be reserved for IBBs only, if that. I could do without it all together. Call it what it is. An Intentional Walk. We don't need a fucking metaphor for everything.
Glad to see OBP and OPS making appearances though.
omfg not again
They might let us have a run to make it 19-8 again tonight.
That means the Yankees don't have a prayer the rest of the season.
alright -- NOW can we bean somebody?
oh look - dumbo is up!
I've muted this game and as he was rounding the bases, the three stooges theme played in my mind. Stupid shemp.
I don't even care about that dong
Sad
If they used it for IBBs only i wouldn't mind it but I hear it a lot used for other walks. (the ones which Dusty Baker says clog up the bases)
We'll just recreate 2004. Not necessarily in the same order.
-19-8 loss.
-Saturday brawl. (Beckett can be Pedro, need someone to play the role of gerbil tho)
-World series championship
Dave Roberts must be lurking someone.
... that was lovely.
But baseball announcing is all about those silly nicknames like "free pass". That will never change. Free pass is like Don saying "tardy on the cut" and "gets the bad news".
I guess we need one more run for our favourite score 19-8. Then we go from there.
Signing off now (from computer, not game, game stays on til the last out). Night all.
Solid choice there, Tito.
Why don't we put HH out in LF?
And that's why you don't have an infielder play the outfield...
"Why don't we put HH out in LF?"
He's saving him to pinch run again
go on - get 20 -- there is a real diff between seeing 19 and seeing 20. do it right - get 20
Fuck it, send Green in to pitch
good work.
Yeah I'm out of here for the night as well.
(I say that but you never know with me...)
Watching until the end of the 9th, or whatever extra inning we make it to (which seems ridiculous at this point)...
God fucking damn I wish we could beat teams other than the Toronto fucksticks.
NOW it's time to drill somebody
BLACKJACK!
Good fucking God...
Fucking asshole milk dud. Serves you right.
OK i'm leaving for real this time. night.
run #21 does not count? was swisher dogging it?
Apparently, yes
AL record for runs in the 9th is 13
Just sayin'
CACTUS!?!?!?!
Not that it really matters at this point...
cactus dong!
12 more to go
fuckin' tek - padding his stats.
Normally I'd be happy about the Sox scoring eight runs...
How about, like, 10 straight dongs?
Actually, we'd need 11 to tie it...fuck
i think there were still more total hits in the jos game. 35?
has girardi gotten mo up yet?
MOLE DONG!
First time we've allowed 20 runs in a game since June 19, 2000 (also against these assholes)
Oh, NOW we decide to start scoring?
heh - pitching coach visit
WAY too clean water...
Le sigh.
that 2000 game was 7-1 after 7. mfy got 9 in the 8th and 7 in the 9th. i remember that game.
I'm going to pretend this game didn't happen.
Goodnight!
Fear not.
We got Paul Byrd in the wings.
Hello? What happened tonight? Did those Inglorious Yankee Basterds score more than five runs? Well, look at that. Actually, just wanted to say thanks to redsock for using my passionate if foolhardy rant about Boston hitting the other night to launch a fascinating discussion/stat comparison of the two teams in the clutch department. You run a GREAT site, and I count on you for hilarious NY tabloid headlines regularly. Let's smoke 'em tomorrow!
I'm with Ish. Fantasy world is the way to go.
I like the makes-ya-wanna-puke emoticon on the game wrap-up and if ever a game wrap-up deserved no better than an emoticon as comment, this was the game.
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