Red Sox - 000 300 000 - 3 9 0J.D. Drew crushed a two-run bomb to dead center in the fourth -- following a Kevin Youkilis single, a David Ortiz double, and an Adrian Beltre RBI groundout -- but the bullpen crumbled in the eighth.
Royals - 000 002 02x - 4 8 1
Hideki Okajima gave up a double to David DeJesus to start the inning and Scott Podsednik bunted him to third. Daniel Bard came in and walked Alberto Callaspo. Bard struck out Billy Butler for the second out, but pinch-runner Willie Bloomquist stole second. Rick Ankiel then flaired a broken-bat single over shortstop to bring in the tying and go-ahead runs. It was Bard's second blown save of the young season.
Ankiel went 4-for-4, with two singles, a double, a home run, and 3 RBI. He and Butler went back-to-back off consecutive Wakefield (7-6-2-1-6, 96) pitches in the sixth.
Mike Cameron singled off Joakim Soria in the top of the ninth. Marco SCutaro sacrificed him to second, but Jacoby Ellsbury struck out on three pitches and Dustin Pedroia battled through a nine-pitch at-bat (with six foul balls) before flying to right.
The Rays beat the Yankees 9-3; Mark Teixeira is 0-for-16.
Tim Wakefield / Kyle Davies
Elias Sports Bureau:
At 43 years and 250 days old, Tim Wakefield will become the oldest Red Sox pitcher ever to start a game when he takes the hill against the Royals tonight. He would pass David Wells, who was 43 years, 98 days old in his last start for the club in 2006.Wakefield will pass Eck with his first start on or after July 27.
The only Boston hurler to appear in a game at an older age is Dennis Eckersley, who was 43 years, 358 days old in his last appearance for the team in 1998.
The Westmoreland family released a statement today.
Weekend starters:
Saturday: Josh Beckett / Zack Greinke, 7 PM
Sunday: Clay Buchholz / Gil Meche, 2 PM
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Ellsbury, LF
Pedroia, 2B
Martinez, C
Youkilis, 1B
Ortiz, DH
Beltre, 3B
Drew, RF
Cameron, CF
Scutaro, SS
DeJesus, RF
Podsednik, LF
Callaspo, 3B
Butler, 1B
Ankiel, CF
Guillen, DH
Kendall, C
Betancourt, SS
Getz, 2B
Bit harsh on Jason at the Onion there. I certainly won't tell her about it.
Well, it's the Onion. They have to do what they have to do. Funny.
Oh crap, it's the Fox Royals station.
I guess it's KC's home opener and they're doing a tribute to Greinke.
NESN showing the ceremony too.
Friends O' Clyde was on tonight!
Dude deserves it.
OMG he sure does deserve it.
Fox couldn't even be bothered to show each person as they were announced.
NESN is obSESN over the emcee! Less emcee, more of the players he's announcing, please....
Yay Friends O'Clyde.
Yay Boys & Girls Club, great organization. $20K means a lot to a place like that.
Hey, a ceremony...these are those things that are stupid and pointless and show that the ownership just wants to squeeze every dime out of of everything and they'd never do this back when baseball was pure and..... oh wait, I'm not the Boston sports media....
Bonser is also on the DL with Mono now.
Maybe he's just really bored.
isn't this delaying and slowing down the game? joe west'll be pissed.
Pena dong ties it at 2 at the Trop.
idiot, ellsbury
Oh, Jacoby.
Ack LBJ what was that?!
I feel like he must have hurt the left knee there.
Sox trying to save KC arms. 9 pitches.
If Ellsbury could somehow donate some of his home-to-second thinking to Victor and Papi to use in their home-to-first thinking....you know what I'm sayin. Maybe.
doing work at the moment, but i'm listening.
okay, i will ignore..
Um, so MLB At Bat shows the two teams at the top with their scores. But they put the team in the lead on the left! So you think the Yanks are at home but they're really just on the right because they're down 3-2. Very confusing.
Good job, Wake. I forgot about "Friday night uniforms."
5-2 Rays now. I fear my current comments are getting swallowed because of....ya know.
DNFTT pls
but he's my (billy) butler!!!
nice! Billy Small GLove Butler
too low, blue.
I hope Ells doesn't let the SS take those when there's a possible play at the plate.
And the Royals strand a pair.
That's better Lyndon!
Cool, ABP now blocks the ad on opening ESPN gamecast
time for some blue light salami
"Loa-ded, loa-ded....." Charlie T, Taxi Driver
"middle in"
loaded
Javy only gave up 8 runs for the Yanks tonight
extra outs from extra mart
goddamn it
GD it.
NYY - 000 200
TBR - 000 504
rays still batting in 6th.
wow there's only one undefeated team and one winless team left
I used to like Jayson Stark's "last man to get a hit" award. He'd count down how many were left. Don't know if he still does that, I haven't read him in years.
My account on here must have been deleted for being inactive over the winter.
Blogger doesn't do that, AFAIK.
yeah, i've never heard of that.
lotsa yooooooks in kc, nice
one large father, pls
I wish someone on here had a Slingbox..
just above tiz's belt -- NOT high --jesus christ
WHEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alright! 2 on no outs
Oppo
WHOO a double for Papi!
1-0 !
I might be going to get a Master's degree where Ortiz is from, Santiago de los Caballeros.
ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DROOOOOOOOOOOOO
Fiery Dong!
WERD!!!!!!!!!
Ah, Fiery Dong, I forgot about that one. That's what happens when you skip spring training, I guess!
FIREY DONG!!!
that was a werd bomb.
440 feet, sez nesn
Kicking ass now
On Fire!
Bobby Cox has tied the ejection record, getting tossed from today's game for arguing balls and strikes from the dugout.
Converted pitcher double.
lol Ankiel.
OUT!
JD's HR was an absolute bomb.....
One other thing about the other post about Joe West...Do you really think MLB wants games to be 2hrs long, imagine all the lost food and beer sales that would equate to..
O'brien mentioned Joe West has a book coming out, maybe why he is gettin all chatty...
I'm sure you're right 9C. That'll do it.
don so amazed that martinez just came in and began catching wakefield.
hey don -- maybe it wasn't such a big deal for all those years after all!!
DeJesus..."can't hit knuckleball, but I can hit fan! ;)
But V-mart actually catches Wake with his first baseman's mitt.
oh lovely.
Fastest fastball of the fifth donation for the Jimmy Fund...
always a little light on Wake's nights--75 mph.
plus he swung.
Do we have to bat with the pitcher now?
no, someone else will DH. you lose the DH only if the guy who is the DH plays in the field.
jermey "her meter"
hahaha!
Damn... no shut out for Timmeh.
Just as I'm about to say hello for the night, shit goes wild. What the fuck timmeh???
I am starting to dislike Rick Ankiel.
ankiel needs a triple.
guillen dancing around like he has to pee!!!
He must have been out of the batter's box is the only thing I can think of.
I say to give Delcarmen a opportunity here.
ameeker.
oon ffire
mdc in a 3-2 game scares me.
That's Drew--amazing ability to leave the bat on his shoulder as well as unloading that sweet swing and crushing the ball.
These days mdc in 5-2 game would scare me.
Not cool.
the mop is up!
"Join the 9k race to help wounded veterans"
Well, I know of something that will help them even more! Many things. Don't want to get into that now though, just want some runnnnz
yeah, i bitched about that the other night. military's going broke at 16 billion a month, so we need deep-in-debt people to help out pay the cost.
The Mop ??
Good news, everyone!
yes indeed tim, i can too. creating fewer veterans, for example...
here in canada it's "commemorate a useless blood bath and call it patriotism" day.
Glossary:
Mop, the: Kyle Farnsworth - From George King of the New York Post, April 18, 2008 (JoS mention here).
(there are links)
"Good News, Everyone!" good one :)
TB 9 NYY 3 :-P
jeemer up
wake at 86 picthes
Farnsworth
Squander... 3BB in a row and no runs.
The KC Fox announcer is actually pretty smart and not annoying. What is the temperature in hell these days?
really should get at least one home when the first three guys in the inning walk.
The radio guys said that second pitch to FY was a foot off the plate. The umpires have not been kind to the Sox so far this year.
"20-minute wait"
L, you have KC feed? I've got NESN here, it was on the TV when I turned it on which was sweet.
I think its on one of the rogers west channels if you get that.
a foot outside is a bit of a lie.
Well the rain has finally stopped and I've sobered up enough after the post work beers... time to ride home.
Enjoy the rest of the game!
Wake looks good tonight, excluding two pitches.
FY thought it was high, and it looked like it was at his letters, outside edge.
redsock said...
really should get at least one home when the first three guys in the inning walk.
Don't you read the papers...:)
HEYO!!!! GETZ OUT YOU.
booooooooook.
what just happened? (watching on mute, steph studying)
excuse me, son, you are out.
...
don supressing a laugh as nesn goes to break!
"The KC Fox announcer is actually pretty smart and not annoying. What is the temperature in hell these days?"
Never noticed him to be a toolbox before. Is this a new guy?
drag bunt along first, yook could not grab it, but batter out because he was out of the box when he hit it.
He was out of the batter's box when he hit the ball. Automatic out! Sweet but strange...
On the grass= left the baseline?
mop hurt himself warming up, so new royals arm coming in
The Mop broke a strand.
such odd stuff going on at home plate tonight. and NESN always opts for commercials instead of watching the argument. this time they get two sets of commercials.
mlbtv staying with nesn. don and jerry are trying not to laugh at something.
***
don: who's the best umpire in the league?
someone says juan cruz.
more laughing.
Never noticed him to be a toolbox before. Is this a new guy?
No idea, it's not a channel I usually watch here in Ontario. He just seems more than halfway decent, which in the Fox broadcast universe is like being Vin Scully.
Broken mop.
he was running on the infield grass the entire time, too. i thought that's what it was at first.
IN-surance pls
Does that mean "Bad news everybody"?
I guess it would mean "bad news no one".
bard up with jeems
ahh, thanks for the description allan!
what, no mikey?
ok, no mikey!
wtf was that pelvis move, beltre?
i hope tito doesn't play the dr. and the cactus in the same game this weekend
let's go, rbi man!!!
"to done list"
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!
sick of it.
perish parrish.
Fucker NEVER drives in runs.
NEVER.
Quick and easy oki, please.
A, what are you cursing about?
drew. he is lame. doesn't care. never drives in runs.
PLEASE!
no, not that. the big FUCK YOU above. to done list? wtf?
we need a K (or a pop-up or a 1-3), bard.
wait a minute, just noticed the above post re: cactus.
why?
why would he be in a game [with less than a 10 run margin] at all???
oh, a stupid commercial i have heard 10+ times tonight.
people are turning their to do list into a to done list.
re cactus, i guess b/c V-Mart needs a day off now and again. no?
hahaha just clicked on the onion link at the top of this thread. good fun.
victor needs a day off from catching and i guess tek should not be rusty in case we go to 17 innings one day.
i guess so, but 5 games into the season? lol
like i said, he can rest when we have a sizeable lead.
maybe amy saw it and got mad?
can't we just get joe mauer?
oh wait.
more likely it's a jewish holiday or her shabbos thing ran late
What the hell just happened to the strike zone?
i snickered at allan's disdain for the "to done" commercial. no idea what it is, since every sox game has been on rogers so far and i get the same 3 canadian commercials every time.
that dude really wants his tim hortons breakfast sandwich...on an english muffin.
it would be very good to win this game
i will accept a dp.
oh god that english muffin dude. tims has such dumb commercials, all of them.
i have KC ads tonight. used cars, mattress sales, and the usual home reno. you watch baseball, you think everyone is remodeling all the time.
locale.
Spent the day/evening in Boston. Just got home. Could the Sox please not blow the lead here?
i watch baseball commercials and think that everyone who watches baseball [or their partner] can't get a hard-on.
sooooo many dick pill commercials. so many. well, moreso on the nat'l feed games.
Usually Don says, "Bluff to third, bluff to first, doesn't throw to either venue."
Sounded like he said, "...to either locale" tonight.
"locale" confirmed
K!
yeah
OK, just saw the Tek story. VERY nasty! And nope, Laura, I was out carousing on shabbat tonight. Shhhh.
Hi Amy
Ish, yes, he does say "either locale" sometimes. Trying to keep things interesting I guess. :)
And yes, all the gray-haired couples, still in love, but can't get it up. All that experience and they can't think of anything else to do but take a pill.
shomer shabbos!
SHIT, I am going back to Boston.
god
fucking
DAMMIT
Oh good for you Amy! Your secret is safe with all of us.
Oh holy shit 4-3
fuck you ankiel
where was bot?
i've had a soft spot for ankiel since his control went to hell .. but fuck that shit.
srsly, lets make this fucker feel soria that he was born.
Maybe that's why they have boner pills because of people getting soft spots for different players.
i think we all feel that way about ankiel. i always cheer for the guy, but obviously not tonight!
it's ace hardware. if i was at home, i'd yell at the tv (or it would be muted more likely). here, i have to type fuck you!
cameron
scutaro
lbj
fy
victor
yook
and so on ...
ha ha ish, good one
i'd like an all natural boner pill right about now, involving lots of red sox dongs.
mo-jo ri-sin...
ok, cameron gets it started...
nice start. will tito bunt?
so many new nicknames waiting to happen this year.
Tying run on. I will stay in western MA for the rest of the game.
I have similar feelings towards Ankiel.
okay, jacoby -- do good stuff.
TO DO LIST: bring runner home.
ram and bot up
I HATE SACRIFICE BUNTS!
Only 3 outs left and you give one away!
This whole team needs Viagra right now.
lets hope that turns into a TO DONE list!
swinnnnng please.
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