Red Sox - 130 000 000 0 - 4 12 0 Athletics - 004 000 000 1 - 5 6 1Good news: Jonathan Papelbon will be available for tomorrow's f*#@%in' game.
Why? Because he sat on his ass in the bullpen while Terry Francona decided to let Ramon Ramirez, Dustin Richardson*, and Michael Bowden hand-deliver this game to the A's.
* Richardson struck out the one guy he faced, so he should not be saddled with too much blame, but Tito did go to him. (Papelbon was warming up in the top of the ninth.)
Ramirez struck out Coco Crisp to start the 10th (and Ococ was tossed by
Bowden came in and got two quick strikes on Kevin Kouzmanoff. Things looked good, but then he missed with two balls before Kouz singled to right field. J.D. Drew's throw was up the first base line and Barton scored the winning run.
The Sox blew an early 4-0 lead as Wakefield (6-3-4-2-5, a season-high 115) melted down in the third -- with one out: double, walk, double steal, HBP, 2-run double, run-scoring passed ball, sac fly to tie the game -- and then, while Wake, Manny Delcarmen, and Hideki Okajima were retiring 16 consecutive Oakland batters from the third to the eighth, Boston left the bases loaded in both the fifth and sixth innings. In the other innings -- 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th -- they could not get even one runner past first base.
The Yankees lost to the Angels 10-2 and the Rays lost a wild one to the Orioles, 11-10 in 13 innings. The song remains the same: Boston 6 GB and Tampa Bay 2.5 GB.
Jed Lowrie might be activated tomorrow.Scutaro, SS McDonald, LF Ortiz, DH Youkilis, 1B Beltre, 3B Drew, RF Cameron, CF Hall, 2B Cash, C
Cafardo says the Red Sox had discussed bringing back Nick Green (who was DFA'd by the Jays) back.
At 7 PM:
Rays/Orioles
Angels/Yankees
1965 - Mel Stottlemyre of the Yankees hits an inside-the-park grand slam off Boston's Bill Monbouquette, the first pitcher to hit one since Pittsburgh's Deacon Phillippe in 1910.
1984 - Trailing 3-1 after eight innings, the Blue Jays score 11 times in the top of the ninth and then hang on to beat Seattle 12-7.
1985 - !
2006 - The Oneonta Tigers (New York-Penn League) beat the Brooklyn Cyclones 6-1 in 26 innings.
OT - 000 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 05 - 6 BC - 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 - 1
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I had a blast at the A's game last night. Tense throughout, and unbelievable how Dice-K kept mowing them down. Lots of Red Sox fans, as usual.
My three friends from the Bar all flaked out, which was obviously their loss. A guy in his 60's was sitting in one of their seats when I got there. He was wearing a cape that said "Emperor of Red Sox Nation" and was passing out little packs of baseball cards he had assembled to kids, complete with bubble gum. A lot of people at the park seemed to recognize him. When he's able, he goes to all the Sox games on the West Coast. He said he moved to California from Fall River 50 years ago.
I think he was featured in crowd shots. He was definitely in the recap of the game on local TV, though I was out of the room when he was shown. I probably wasn't in those shots, however, because he roamed for most of the game.
The park seemed friendlier and less crowded than other times I can remember. But, God, the size of the foul territory really takes you far from the action. 20 rows up from the RF line and I felt like I was so far away. There's a reason parks are built for baseball only. Who knows where the A's will end up (or the 49er's for that matter.)
I'm going again tomorrow and have a nice seat next to me that's free if anyone in the area can come.
re: !
:)
Carl Crawford comes out of the game in the first for the Rays. Not sure what the deal is.
After a 1-2-3 first inning, Matt Garza has given up 1-2-3 home runs in a row to Baltimore (Luke Scott, Ty Wiggington, Adam Jones)!
In other wacky news, PIT scored 9 against the Brewers on 7 hits, 3 errors, and a BB. Alvarez grand slam were the only earned runs.
Colorado with 5 in so far in the 3rd with no outs vs. the Marlins.
Fur also flying in the Toilet.
Jeez.
The A's feed showed the Emperor. Reminded me of Frank Costanza's lawyer.
Carl Crawford comes out of the game in the first for the Rays. Not sure what the deal is.
Traded to the Red Sox for Nava?
Crisp, CF
Barton, 1B
Suzuki, C
Cust, DH
Kouzmanoff, 3B
Ellis, 2B
Gross, RF
Davis, LF
Pennington, SS
Allan, do you like my (temp) avatar? It's in your honor.
Zen, I was about to compliment you on your avatar when your comment came through.
Great you were at the game last night! We saw Mr Emperor in his cape on TV. A's announcers said, Isn't the Emperor of RSN Jerry Remy?"
But, God, the size of the foul territory really takes you far from the action. 20 rows up from the RF line and I felt like I was so far away.
I remember that about the Colesium. Strange place, although the fans were great when we were there - both diehard and very friendly.
In case anyone is wondering what we did tonight (re wmtc post), sangria and tapas at a local place. 10:00 start makes it easy.
LAA - 011 202
MFY - 200 00
FKR - 001 104
BAL - 031 00
TOR - 222
KCR - 00
Go Jays!
Allan, do you like my (temp) avatar?
I do. Looks at first like a bust of a Roman Emperor.
Zen, my friend can't come to the game with us on Weds. She can only make weekend games. I have one other idea. It's a long shot, but I'll try it.
Ah, well. At least the Yanks are losing.
MFY down 8-2. Swell.
FKR up 8-7, lets go you hapless son of a bitch orioles. Get that shit taken care of.
Hey, Sox game is on an HD-EI channel with no game on before it!
My email must've worked :>)
I also thought Charlie looked like an ancient sculpture.
Looks like a mantlepiece.
Can't wait to chow down on some gametime artichoke. I grossly underestimated the cooking time of these massive beauties, so they're just getting done now (dinner was over an hour ago).
NESN!
nesn and doughy don!
zen: you want me to make a post re the ticket?
Artichokes for dessert :)
papi says shift this!
Oh man. I thought that 2nd run looked unlikely.
Bogeyed by Bogar
I have to get up early tomorrow a.m. I pretty much have to give up on this game.
And tomorrow I have to leave the house right when the game is starting!
Whine whine whine. I hate missing so much baseball.
I'm OK for these night games, but I'll miss the afternoon start tomorrow, and there's one next week too. Coming so close to the All-Star break when we just went 3 days without a real game, it is pretty hard having to miss games again so soon.
This is why I love my DVR!
Is Mike Cameron really hitting .282? It feels like he hasn't contributed offensively at all.
Am I alone here?
LOL @ Heidi with a scarf on. It's 60 degrees in Oakland right now. Seriously, a scarf?
as far as missing games, jos will be very quiet for 10 games beginning next monday. we are in california for a wedding and some time in SF and yosemite.
Oh, Bogar...
Well that ended up working out!
we saw a game at candlestick in mid-august back in 1988 - frozen our fuckin' asses off. twain was right.
Wait, first no baseball, then no JOS? What's a girl to do?
But have a great time on your trip!
nearly killed the rally but did not - whew!
Congrats on the 25-year anniversary of meeting! Sorry I am missing you next week.
Seems like Braden doesn't have it tonight. Go Sox!
I froze at one game in Atlanta in April one year. My parents were down from Maine for the week, so of course it was the coldest week of the month. I didn't like coffee at the time but had to drink some to keep warm - we went looking for hot chocolate, but found out they don't sell any.
The Manchester City (English Premier League Soccer) manager(coach) always wears a scarf. Always
LAA - 011 202 202 - 10 14 1
MFY - 200 000 000 - 2 6 0
FKR - 001 104 210 0
BAL - 031 000 302
What's a girl to do?
JoS Alternate Gamethread Site
"oh, and I need my iced coffee from dunkin donuts" grumbled a disgruntled Pedroia, cradling a red bull.
we will be back for the mfy game on friday august 6, though!
JoS Alternate Gamethread Site
Bookmarked!
fuckin' a's.
now as long as there is a thread there, you're all set!
(i hate missing games)
D-motherfuckin'-P, PLS
Back now, just had a tel call and powered through that artichoke. Time to stop this art of choke now, wake!
dp, please!
I thought it was always the 4th inning when Wake had problems.
So this west coast trip, is this going to be like that other time you were away and just had oblig. game posts with no threads?
Hopefully ish is up to the task! Haven't seen him around as much recently. I gotta vent somewheres!
fucking christ.
cust.
really?
eat shit, cash.
These A's fans are cheering like they have something to gain.
It's weird.
Cashedaballa. Terrible.
tim, probably. posts that i can put linescores in later. i never know how much time or net access i'll have.
zen and ish are mods there.
Sure, tie the fucker up.
Holy shit, Rays and Os tied at 9, top 12!
"4 aside"
oh, i'm drinkin', all right.
Warm up Richardson??
TB: 001 104 210 00
BAL: 031 000 302 00
yep.
FKR - 001 104 210 00
BAL - 031 000 302 00
Warm up bardy, get him in there to close this puppy out. 6 innings, sure!
you are the master of the lined up linescore.
So how soon can Victor be ready?
god fucking damn it, cash.
Fine piece of baserunning there. Forget your hall pass?
What's wrong with cash? hitting streak!
vic's got to be a better option now, just dope him up on morphine or something
FKR take the lead. Thanks for your throwing error, baltimore catcher.
ahh, the ol reverse doc ellis.
dice should donate $$$ for every BB.
dice should donate $$$ for every BB.
Ha! I was just going to say the same thing!
mid 12th - go birds!
dice should donate $$$ for every BB.
Dude, that harsh.
i hate cetera.
harsh? maybe.
i don't want dice to end up penniless and homeless.
Cameron, I gotta go to bed. Let me sleep with a lead.
wait - wolf was traded for fox?
Birds tie it!
Well that was a waste who knows where this game will go..
I just bought tickets for tomorrow's game
Hoping Wake is on it now for the rest of the night..
i hope he's hurt.
zen has one extra ticket for tomorrow. i put up a post.
O's just beat FKR 11-10... gooooo Slugo!
FKR - 001 104 210 001 0 - 10 9 0
BAL - 031 000 302 001 1 - 11 16 2
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load em up for the sultan - good idea.
My dad is coming with me also so I needed 2.
well if we can't have sweat power, how about some knee power....
6 LOB in the last 2 innings -- and we have only 1 hit (3 BB and 2 HBP).
Maybe we need to NOT load the bases.
Orioles get win #30!
FKR won #30 on May 20
MFY won #30 on May 30
Sox won #30 on June 1
i need screen shots of this tito wig commercial!
mdc in and jeemer up
i'm sure remy is glad the soccer game is tomorrow. no more reading/butchering the ad!
though everyone else is reading it tonight!!!
bard up
jeemer time
bardinator
This makes no sense to me and you are also burning pitchers in a tied game.
Pap will be in next inning and then there is not much left in the pen.
i think i would have stayed with mdc a bit more
ramram up
K!
yook
beltre
drew
cameron
runs pls!
Hi all. Looks like a good one. See that Wake had a good night. Now if Bard can just get his shit together, we can gain a game on both leaders.
Done! Runs now, plz
wake was fine -- except for a ghastly third.
Going to need extras to win it now.
damn - that was a pretty catch!
and tito goes with ramram
Well that was nonproductive.
Noticed just before your comment allan that all the runs were in that 1 inning. Looked back and yeah, ghastly is a good word. 2b, bb, hpb, 2b, then a passed ball to boot. bleh.
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
snakey! and yook TAG!
do not fuck with beltre.
Yooouuuk! Nice play by Beltre too, but with a crazy throw.
...And another nice Beltre play for out #2.
extras on the west coast - who needs sleep?
Warm up the coffee pot..
Extras!
Work is not going to be fun tomorrow.
Bonus ball!
wow --
i mean FUCK YOUOAKLAND
brown bloop!
ziegler and bot up
now richardson and bowden up
ococ is not happy.
ococ is dessot.
davidson getting out of control.
Are you kidding me? A balk?
ramirez did not make a peep about it. shit.
richardson in for the lefty cust
why is our game resting on the arm of dustin richardson?
oh come on - ASSHOLE BLUE
davidson: "I AM THE SHOW TONIGHT!!!"
oops - kids, don't read Farrell's lips.
But yeah, Davidson is ridiculous.
Richardson... focus!
Huuuge K.
MEGA K!
well, papelbon will be rested for tomorrow.
%$#@*@&^@%@%@&
I just about lost my shit last night watching this while in bed, fading in and out of sleep. After Tito came to yank ramram I slumberly thought "oh good, here comes pap" then was wide awake when fucking Richardson came in.
But he did fine. Once again, as Tito was coming put to get Richardson I thought "finally! Bot!" then, fucking bowden? U serious Tito? Saving bot to save a game that won't have a save opp? That's good.
Playoff assassin needs to kick in, like now.
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