Red Sox - 130 000 000 - 4 5 0Buchholz (1-1-0-1-2, 17) hyperextended his left knee running to second base in the second inning, so it was up to the firm of Atchison Ramirez Delcarmen Richardson Okajima Bard & Papelbon LLC to uphold Boston's early lead.
Giants - 000 101 000 - 2 6 0
Darnell McDonald hit a solo home run in the first and Mike Cameron drilled a three-run shot to dead center in the second. After Cameron's dong, only two Red Sox batters reached base: Buchholz's single immediately following the HR and Marco Scutaro's two-out double in the fifth. San Francisco pitchers retired 21 of the last 22 Boston batters.
Jonathan Papelbon needed only eight pitches to retire the Giants in order in the ninth.
The Red Sox have acquired infielder-outfielder Eric Patterson from the A's. (SoSH)
The Dodgers lead the Yankees 9-4 in the 7th and the Rays beat the Diamondbacks 5-3, so if LA wins, Boston and Tampa Bay will be 2 GB.
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Buchholz has never come to the plate in a big league game, but hit .387 and slugged .613 at Angelina (Texas) Junior College:Scutaro, SS
McDonald, RF
Martinez, C
Youkilis, 1B
Beltre, 3B
Nava, LF
Hall, 2B
Cameron, CF
Buchholz, P
Oh, I know what I'm doing up there.Runs allowed by Buchholz in his last eight starts: 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 3, 3, 0. That's a 1.62 ERA over 55.2 innings.
Buchholz is 3rd in the AL in ERA (2.47) and 1st in ERA+ (181); his ERA+ is 5th in MLB.
Buchholz's BB/9 is still too high, however: 3.7*. It's 10th worst among the 56 qualifying AL starters. Plus, Jon Lester is 11th and John Lackey is 14th. The Red Sox have allowed the 4th most walks in the AL (271, only 10 fewer than the #1 Angels).
Random Thing: Looking at the team pitching stats, there is a huge difference in wild pitches, with the Diamondbacks at 45 and the Padres with 12. (Arizona's Edwin Jackson has 11 all by himself!)
Ignoring Buchholz's four games pitched in 2007, here are his opponents' slash stats:
PA AVG OBP SLG OPS ERA+A nice, steady decline in all three catagories, especially slugging. After allowing 1.3 HR/9 in 2008 and 2009, that rate has dropped to 0.3 this year. In roughly similar numbers of batters faced over the last three years, he has allowed 11, 13, and 3 home runs, respectively.
2008 357 .299 .381 .463 .844 69
2009 399 .256 .325 .404 .729 112
2010 373 .231 .311 .310 .621 181
Bumgarner, a 20-year-old lefty, is making his 2010 debut. His major league experience consists of four games (10 innings) towards the end of last season. With Fresno (AAA) this year, he has a 3.16 ERA in 14 starts.
AL East Watch:
Diamondbacks/Rays, 4 PM
Yankees/Dodgers, 7 PM
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1916: During a doubleheader between Brooklyn and the Giants at the Polo Grounds, three fans are arrested for petty looting for not throwing back baseballs hit into the stands.
1982: The Appleton Foxes (Midwest League) get only one hit per game, but sweep a doubleheader from the Wisconsin Rapids Twins 2-1 and 1-0.
96 comments:
"bumgarner"
lol
Torres, RF
Renteria, SS
Huff, 1B
Uribe, 2B
Burrell, LF
Sandoval, 3B
Posey, C
Rowand, CF
Bumgarner, P
Shit. Fox.
Dick Stockton and Eric Karros.
Double shit, FY on the DL with a line fracture in his foot.
Isn't Madison a girl's name?
Dick Stockton is a broadcaster? WTF?
You mean still a broadcaster, I assume. His brain is on its way to pudding status, sadly.
dongs are fun.
Microwave Ray!
MICROWAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Redsock, is your fox feed all shitty?
Darnell!
But that doesn't change the fact that I'm sick about Laser Show.
yes it is
Holy crap, his crutches are next to him on the dugout bench. :-(
I can't believe Pedroia is on the DL. I can't process this.
not shitty because its fox, technically shitty, these loud scratches/pops occurring frequently are a piss off.
This team should be able to weather the storm, diehard. Provided we get LBJ, Drew and Fuck Train back soon.
What is the ETA on Beckett anyway?
Good start HH.
SF LOB > Our LOB
For once.
jeterrific
Stupid FOX is still trying to claim credit for the whole Daniel Nava experience, just because his debut was on their channel. As if they're the ones who discovered him in the independent league. Dumbasses.
wtf?
GET OFF MY FOX, CHICAGO TEAMS
That was nice of Rogers. On the EI channel titled "Boston @ San Francisco" it randomly switched to the Cubs game, which was on the other EI channel.
Luckily this shit is on the Rogers channel or else I'd be screwed. Fucking idiot Rogers.
they are also compacting his story and getting it all distorted. he was in a laundrymat and met a guy named chico and gave him a dollar ...
hey - our channel just switched to another game! now we are watching the sox on another channel. bizarre.
now it's back to the other channel. WTF!!!!!!!!!!
CAMER-DONG!
Camerdong!
Now that is a big dong!
Nice time for Cameron's first homer!
We didn't plan that, btw.
HHit!
Tim, you have the game on a Rogers channel? We didn't see it, I'll try again.
We found it on Rogers - thanks Tim! Maybe they'll leave it here instead of changing to a different game in the middle of an AB.
back of buchholz's left thigh bothering him ...
atchison in
FUCK AND DOUVLE FICL
WHAT?!?!?
FUCK THIS STUPID FUCKING LEAGUE!
Atchinson in
fuckety fuck
1. Delayed CAMERON!!!!!!! Bout fucking time!!!
2. WHAT THE FUCK????????? NOOOOOOOO!
hopefully, just cautionary.
Fucking MLB and their stupid fucking ass rules.
Yes. What Ish said.
"giant runs"?
stockton keeps saying SF has scored runs.
It doesn't feel like we're up 4-0. I can't even enjoy this game. I hadn't even finished being upset about Pedey yet and now I'm really upset about HH and interleague play in general.
And this was supposed to be a good day. My nice new HDTV went completely kablooey 2 weeks after the warranty ended, and I spent the past 3 weeks watching on a 19-year-old 13" TV with no remote. The nice TV finally got fixed today and I'm back in HD (not to mention it's big enough for me to actually see the score now). But now this.
Can the Sox stretch out Atchinson into a 100 pitch starter? We may need him now :(
long single for tubby
What exactly happened to Clay? My stupid Fox has got the Yankees game.
had a twinge running to second, feeling the back of his left thigh - tito said he hyperextended his knee? didn't think it would be serious, but obviously checking it out.
thought i saw the chin talking with tito and walking out of the dugout. he was on his way to the on deck circle!
Diehard, I know what you mean. I am blocking out my annoyance/disgust over interleague, but I'm so upset about FY.
I'm assuming that HH is not badly hurt. Might as well assume that until or unless told otherwise.
Can someone tell me what happened to HH? Just heard on the radio that he was injured.
I cannot stand this.
look up a bit.
OK, I see RS's explanation above. When did this happen?
Hyperextended his knee RUNNING THE DAMN BASES after his hit in the second inning.
This feels like...was it 2006? 2005?...when everyone kept getting hurt. Makes me sad and mad.
Thanks for the info.
The baseball gods hate us, I guess.
yeah, so he pitched the first -- and we have seen atchison, ramram, mdc and richardson.
august 2006.
But I'm not bitter.
Nope.
OK, let's get some runs. We need to win this thing for Pedey. And Clay.
Yeah, 2006. Uch.
Poor HH, poor FY, poor us.
Can we at least get LBJ back?
not news: karros is a moran.
karros: "sanchez's run doesn't matter"
WTF?
Damn. Came in a while ago and caught up on the thread then got called out before I could join in. I believe I mentioned the other day that I HATE seeing m starting pitcher run the damn basepaths. yech
MFY 4 - LAD 7
At least.
Sancvhez's run doesn't matter. WTF?
Thanks, Benjamin. We need all the good news we can get.
Hard to believe we are ahead in this game, given the mood here.
Only in the bottom of the fifth, though.
FAUX showing the Yankees game here. Boo. Except that at least I am seeing Manny AND the Yankees are losing. So there is that
Yes, true. We are using up our bullpen and we only have a two run lead.
Let's bring in Papelbon soon so we can really have something to be miserable about.
OK, Oki. That made me smile.
Oki looks back on track for now
We are just not looking to sharp offensively. Not since zI've been home anyway. Perhaps a shower is in order.
I'd hold off on the shower, SoSock. At least we are ahead now. Save the shower....just in case.
there's a catch.
He caught that??? HOW the hell??
Cameron! What a catch
YES! But Cameron better not be hurt!
So should I stay up and watch Papelbon? I did have two cosmos tonight...
All you nervous types, maybe you should leave the room for Papelbon's inning. You know who you are.
13 pitches - 3 outs. We could use about 3 more of him
I know who I am. :)
Ha, I didn't see Amy's comment before mine.
stockton: papelbon has his jacket off, getting ready to come in and do his thing.
redsock: give up 3 runs and walk off the field in shame?
Um, Allan, you are starting to sound like me.
I am feeling numb. May as well stay up and watch Papelbomb implode.
Actually, a shower IS in order. But I'm waiting for the watr to get dirtry before I get in.
I spent the whole day out on a river tubing with the family. 12 people tubes and 3 cooler tubes. We had a blast, although I'm as red as a freaking beet on the tops of my legs.
Ouch
nah, just being snarky.
There is no better proof of the irrelevance of W-L record than the fact that Papelbon could get a W after blowing a save the other night.
I saw on FB, SoSock. Sounds like fun!
He has TWO outs!
two easy outs. piece of cake.
Holy shit. Who is THIS guy?
Of course, I say that, but the fact is when he's good he's pretty damn good. But when he's bad he's VERY bad
The water is Muddy!!!
YAY!
The water is injured but dirty.
OMG, we win! DIRTY WATER.
But I am still sad.
Good night, everyone.
8 pitches - 3 outs. Nice.
I like taking showers in dirty water!
Later
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