Red Sox - 121 000 001 - 5 11 0A day after the Red Sox had to use seven relief pitchers, Lester (9-5-1-1-9, 103) turned in his second complete game of the season, and the sixth of his career.
Giants - 100 000 000 - 1 5 0
Lester dominated the Giants for the entire game, retiring the final 10 batters on only 26 pitches. He allowed a first-inning run on a single, two stolen bases and an infield groundout.
Lincecum (3-5-4-3-4, 79) gave up a huge home run to David Ortiz in the first; it landed in the bay. Lester batted with the bases loaded in the second and his long fly ball to deep right-center would have been out of many ball parks, but it was a sacrifice fly in the huge San Francisco pasture. Marco Scutaro followed with an RBI single.
Bill Hall, who doubled and scored in the second, singled in Kevin Youkilis with Boston's fourth run. Adrian Beltre hit a first-pitch home run in the ninth. In addition to Hall, Yook and Scutaro had two hits each. Red Sox batters struck out a season-high 15 times.
Pablo Sandoval fouled a pitch off Victor Martinez's left toe in the second inning and Martinez hopped around in pain so much he ended up out by the mound. He stayed in the game another inning, but was replaced by Jason Varitek in the fourth.
The Rays managed only two hits and lost to the Diamondbacks 2-1. Evan Longoria and B.J. Upton had a confrontation in the dugout, after Longoria spoke to Upton not hustling after a triple hit past him to deep center. The Dodgers were two outs away from a 6-2 win over the Yankees, but New York rallied for four runs in the ninth and two in the tenth and beat Los Angeles 8-6. Boston stays 2 GB; Tampa Bay is 3 GB.
Lincecum, winner of the 2008 and 2009 NL Cy Young awards, has a 2.86 ERA. He did have three rough outings in late May (15 runs in 15.1 innings), but he has rebounded, with a 2.17 ERA in four June starts. Only Bill Hall, Mike Cameron and newest Sock Eric Patterson have faced Lincecum.Scutaro, SS
Nava, LF
Ortiz, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Martinez, C
Drew, RF
Hall, 2B
McDonald, CF
Lester, P
And:
Diamondbacks/Rays, 1:30 PM
Yankees/Dodgers, 8 PM
If you are wondering what is going on this weekend in Toronto, click here (and peruse wmtc, in general).1911 - The A's Stuffy McInnis steps into the batter's box to lead off the 7th inning at Boston's Huntington Avenue Grounds and hits Ed Karger's warm-up pitch for an inside-the-park home run while the Red Sox are still taking their positions. Boston manager Patsy Donovan protests, but umpire Rip Egan allows the home run because of league president Ban Johnson's new rule prohibiting warm-up pitches. That rule was enacted because of complaints that games are taking too long to play; it will soon be withdrawn.
2003 - The Red Sox score 14 runs in the bottom of the first inning against the Marlins. They lead 10-0 before making an out. Johnny Damon singles, doubles, and triples in the half-inning, which takes 50 minutes to play. Boston wins 25-8, but manager Huckleberry Happytalk apologizes to Marlins' skipper Jack McKeon for scoring so many runs. Third base coach Mike Cubbage later admits he waived runners in knowing they would be thrown out because the Marlins "were having a hard time getting outs". (See the July 3 post here.) Inexplicably, Cubbage is not immediately fired. Jesus. Seven years later, this is still pissing me off.
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I'm headed to the game with the wife and kids. Kids are most excited about the big slide in the outfield, cotton candy, and riding the train to the game. I may try to post from the game, but my blackberry isn't conducive to blogger (countdown to end of two year period so I can get a real internet-enabled phone: 6 weeks).
Re 6/27/03: Wow, I'm glad I didn't hear the Cubbage comment back then - the whole "too many sac flies" and apologizing thing really pissed me off as it was. Especially the next day when they blew a 9-2 lead and lost 10-9. I went to the 3rd game of the series with my parents and brother and we were all still upset. I remember Trot hitting a home run and we were yelling, "You should hold up at third. It wouldn't be polite to go all the way around," and encouraging them to pile on some more runs.
ARZ - 000 020
FKR - 000 001
Especially the next day when they blew a 9-2 lead and lost 10-9.
Gump was absolutely afraid of scoring too many runs when the Sox were up by 7. And Mckeon took full advantage -- he must have laughed his ass off for hours after the game.
And so was born the phrase: "Make Tito Apologize!"
Jamie Moyer set a MLB record today, allowing his 506th home run (Vernon Wells hit it). Moyer also became the 40th pitcher to pitch 4,000+ innings.
Torres, CF
Sanchez, 2B
Huff, LF
Posey, 1B
Renteria, SS
Molina, C
Sandoval, 3B
Schierholtz, RF
Lincecum, P
Perhaps when the Jays game ends, we'll get NESN on a Rogers station.
PAPI DONG!!!!!
SPLASH!!!!!!!!!!!
Splash down, PAPI!!!!
FLOOOOOO!!!!
Gump was absolutely afraid of scoring too many runs when the Sox were up by 7.
And McKeon had made the comment after the first game that "they must think their pitching is really bad. Do they really need 25 runs to beat us?" And I was yelling, "Yes! They are! We do!" and then the second game proved it.
But I'm not bitter. Nope. Not at all.
"Let's Go Red Sox" chant follows the splashdown.
Splash-drangular!
72nd time a dong gets wet in the Bay. Last time was Miguel Montero last September.
Small ball run Booooooo
What are the dimensions down the RF line? How far did Papi have to hit it to get it in the bay?
That was complete dumbassery leaving 3rd uncovered with a runner on 2nd.
sf tv color guy, mike krukow, is an idiot.
giants score: "and it's a whole new ball game" because being down 1-0 in the 1st inning is really tough to come back from.
lester's 50-18 W-L record: "that's all you need to know about lester"
and he was beyond adamant -- INSISTING -- that the giants bunt in the first inning.
krukow: "and pedroia just couldn't walk off that injury"
very hard to walk off a fractured foot.
1/2 laser for Hall.
Bases loaded now for Lester. Boy I really hate this stupid league!
Take a walk, Jon!
Whoa, that gave me a scare! Nice anyway, 2-1.
Lester is a monster!!!
Holy crap, that was right in front of the 421-mark.
Take that, Lincecum.
I hate interleague, but I wish our pitchers batted too. I hate having two separate sets of rules, and I HATE the DH, now and forever.
Only in Fenway and SF is that not a homer!
A Lester granny would have been sweet.
Make that 3-1 Scu Scu Scutaro
Only in Fenway and SF is that not a homer!
I dunno. Fenway's 380 in right. That might have made the bullpen!
But it's still a stupid league with its stupid made-up rules.
BOS: 12
7 innings to go -- to 45 runs!
I am afraid WE (i.e., AL) are the ones with the stupid rules.
Made up rules? Those are the rules. It's the DH that's the made up rule. Learn your history!
Obviously all rules are made-up - they don't exist in nature. But everyone batting is not made-up. It's the way baseball has been played forever.
oh fuckin' A.
JAYS finally lost! NESN!
SHIT! Are you kidding me? Vic-toe hurt again! NOOOOOO!
He's staying in the game... for now.
Does Cactus have a bat now?
the rule that sucks is not allowing AL teams to play by the rules they do 95% of the year, though. if they are going to keep playing these fucking interleague games, they have to go DH in all of them.
Rays lose 2-1.
if they are going to keep playing these fucking interleague games, they have to go DH in all of them.
yes
"and he's not throwing that hard either. He's been around 92-93" -OB on Lincecum
It's too bad OB's scouting report is from 2008, because that's how hard Lincecum has thrown all year.
Well I was born in July of '73. So for my whole existence, it has been the rule. Anything else (and I lived in Atlanta for 3 years and went to plenty of games there) is just weird and wrong to me.
The best way to fix it is just get rid of interleague play, which I also hate.
Lincecum up to 70 pitches and we're not through the 3rd yet.
Newsflash: Charlie Moore finds Sasquatch!
I'm amazed that people feel so strongly about interleague play.
I like that we get to see these teams we never see.
Bigfoot? Meh. Find someone who will admit to liking Moore's show -- and we'll have a real newsflash.
I was born in 1961 and started watching baseball in 1975, so for my entire baseball life, there has been a DH.
But even though I was born in 1961, I still know who Babe Ruth was, and who won various World Series played from 1906 to 1960.
It doesn't matter how old we are, we can still know about history.
Hall with his 2nd hit. Action in the SF pen!
Patrick, why do you never get to see these teams? You can watch them any time.
well, no escalating runs in successive innings, but we are 1/3 to scoring in all 9.
we can see any team we want any night we want with the cable package, so i'm not sure that argument means much anymore.
My point isn't that you should or shouldn't like the DH - just that the NL does not play with "made up rules" no matter. No matter our ages, we can still get the facts right.
Tiny Tim was SQUASHED!
Patrick, why do you never get to see these teams? You can watch them any time.
I mean, we get to see these teams we never see play the Sox.
Testing 1-2-3... Blogger's being a dick 1-2-3...
Reasons to hate interleague play
i call BS on remy renting a kayak.
Make the rules the same for both leagues then you can have interleague series at anytime of the year and not have to worry about changing your entire game.
I mean, we get to see these teams we never see play the Sox.
Right. I don't get that, but I understand people feel that way.
I don't want to see these teams play the Sox unless they both earn the right by making it to the WS.
Hey OB, check this out! Facts, weird.
I like that we get to see these teams we never see.
I just think that in this day and age, people can see any team they want whenever they want. I'd love to see it gone altogether, but I know that will never happen.
Reducing it would help though. I hate that we're already done playing the Twins for the year - and only played them 5 times - when, who knows, we might end up in a wild card race with them. (Uh-oh, is wild card a bad topic too? I hated that when it first came out but later changed my mind.)
Reduce it to 6 games (or 9 tops), and then it won't interfere so much with our regular schedule, plus the novelty factor that makes it $ucce$$ful will still be in effect.
Shh, Patrick, don't bother Obie with facts. He's a busy man!
Scutaringle!
These aren't bad topics. We can disagree and still discuss.
I also hate that we hardly play the AL Central anymore. Some of those teams are historic rivals. That's on my list of reasons I hate IL.
Agreed. And perhaps MLB could schedule 2 seasons so it would balance out better each year as far as IL or interdivisional games.
I'd love to meet the MLB schedulers and see what the fuck they're up to.
Diehard, I'm the same about the wild card - hated it when it was introduced, then changed my mind. Now I feel it adds excitement and more races, keeps more teams (and their fans) in the hunt.
Somebody please get poor Wake some potato salad. He's been asking for weeks.
I'd love to meet the MLB schedulers and see what the fuck they're up to.
I think we can all agree on this!
Martinez left the game last inning and Tek is in.
Martinez left the game last inning and Tek is in.
we're watching
I want Lincecum back.
Do P often PH in the middle innings of NL games?
just popping by to say lince-who? just like ubald-who earlier this week. NL ain't got shit. keep it going, lester!
back to studying! looking forward to some dirty water shortly.
Driple!
Chimay anyone?
JDriple!
Now he has to go for the cycle. Whenever someone hits a clean triple, I start thinking cycle.
Nice AB from Lester!
9 pitches, don, not 10.
drew: "why should i care when i get a leadoff triple and these lame fuckers can't knock me in? lester got a walk, but you real hitters -- jesus."
Lester's actually had some good at-bats. 10-pitch walk!
(But that doesn't mean I like him up there hitting... ;-) )
Squander :(
Whoops, I just echoed Don w/o counting myself. Still good though.
So what's the argument against pitchers hitting?
Other than "that's the way it's been since I was born," which is not an argument. :)
97 thru 8 = probable CG
Another 7 pitch inning? Thanks Giants! Way to work the count.
Quick hello from AT&T park and my 3 yr old son's first baseball game. We all looked at JOS when Cactus came in for Blue Light, to see what happened. Good times. Got here just as Papi launched it! See ya.
I love Jerry's misanthropy.
I didn't know it was Westcoastsox's son's first game. Yay! I hope you guys are having a great time.
Beltre says DONG TIME
HOMRE!
drew with the headrub!
Beltre the belter!
(And Drew leads the charge to touch his head in the dugout.)
The water is Muddy!!!
Go Dodgers.
Don't drink the water, it is DIRTY!
MFY: 000 0
LAD: 003 2
MFY: 000 002 00
LAD: 003 200 0
MFY: 000 002 00
LAD: 003 200 01
woo-hoo.
Broxton is totally shitting the bed in the 9th. 1 out, bases loaded.
MFY 9th:
Teixeira K
Slappy single, to 2nd on DI
Cano doubles, Slappy scores, 6-3
Dumbo single, Cano to 3rd
Dumbo to 2nd on DI
Granderson walks
Huffman singles, Cano/Dumbo score, 6-5
broxton has thrown 50 pitches in the last 2 games. fuckin' torre.
no-name huffman? colin curtis?
jesus, broxton, get your head out of your ass.
dp pls
This sucks.
now broxton is getting squeezed.
It's time for a dp.
brox gets ahead of curtis 0-2, gets squeezed on what should have been strike three. then he goes full, suffers through a bunch of fouls (ffbbbffff) gets a 3U, but the tying run scores.
Why is he still in there if he has thrown so many pitches?
Cuz he's the closer.
Throw to second?
Good throw would have gotten him.
MFY: 000 002 004
LAD: 003 200 01
dodger dong -- game over on one swing - would be ideal.
I guess it's demoralizing to take the closer out. It would affect all his other appearances?
48 pitch inning for Broxton.
He threw 1.1 innings (19 pitches) yesterday. He came in with 2 on with 2 outs in the 8th and LA up 9-4. Why?
Have I mentioned lately that I hate the MFY?
c'mon mrs. garret.
garret: i think that was low.
ump: i'm calling the "mariano zone" now.
My son just looked at FanGraphs.
After Teix's strike out, Dodger's had a 99.6% chance of winning.
Went down to 62.5% to begin the bottom of the 9th.
jesus. sasahe to the nth power.
gotta walk the dogs.
Time for bed. I'll have to listen to this on the radio.
Go Dodgers!!
oh what is this shit?
So we are still 2 GB.
MFY: 000 002 004 2 - 8 11 2
LAD: 003 002 010 0 - 6 10 0
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