Red Sox - 130 002 000 - 6 9 1Ryan Kalish hit his first major league home run, a two-run line drive to right-center in the sixth. It came right after New York had cut Boston's lead to 4-3.
Yankees - 200 010 000 - 3 9 1
Buchholz (7.1-9-3-0-4, 97) had only two perfect innings, but after Mark Teixeira hit a hanger out of the yard to right-center on his ninth pitch of the night, HH allowed only two other Yankees to get past second base. Terry Francona had an early hook, going to Daniel Bard after Buchholz gave up a one-out double in the eighth. Bard got the two outs, and while Derek Jeter battled Jonathan Papelbon for a 12-pitch walk with two outs in the ninth, Bot retired Nick Swisher on a fly ball to left to end the game.
David Ortiz homered to deep center in the first. Jacoby Ellsbury drew a bases-loaded walk in the second, an inning in which Vazquez threw 39 pitches, walking three batters (one intentionally) and crowding Francisco Cervelli on an infield pop-up that clanked off the catcher's mitt for an error.
Ellsbury also made a diving catch on a sinking line drive in the eighth (Bard's first batter). He dove forward, towards the infield, and ended up belly-flopping semi-awkwardly on the grass. There was a quick shot during a replay of Ellsbury holding his left side for a few seconds.
The Blue Jays beat the Rays 2-1, so Boston gained a game in both the East (now 5 GB) and the WC (4.5 GB).
Pre-Game: Hideki Okajima to the DL with an injured calf; Felix Doubront is up from Pawtucket.
Ellsbury, CF
Scutaro, SS
Ortiz, DH
Martinez, C
Beltre, 3B
Drew, RF
Lowell, 1B
Kalish, LF
Lowrie, 2B
W L PCT GB RS RA DIFThe Red Sox begin a four-game series at Stade Fasciste. Buchholz leads the AL with a 170 ERA+ and has allowed only 2 earned runs and 7 hits in his last two starts (15 innings). Buchholz has the best road ERA (2.36) of any AL starter, as well as the best nighttime ERA (1.94).
Yankees 67 40 .626 --- 576 442 +134
Rays 67 41 .620 0.5 543 413 +130
Red Sox 62 47 .569 6.0 561 496 + 65
Some stuff from New York:
George A. King III, Post:While Yankee fans are jazzed about burying the Red Sox in The Bronx, that could be getting far out in front. ...That should probably be an "0-3 deficit".
Who can forget six years ago this coming October, when the Red Sox recovered from a 3-0 deficit in the ALCS against the Yankees? Sure, the names have changed for each team -- but ...
If the Yankees win three of four, they put more distance between themselves and the Red Sox. Split and nothing but time comes off the calendar. Lose three, or worse, get swept, and the math changes quickly in the Red Sox's favor.
Kevin Kernan, Post:
Now that Alex Rodriguez has his 600th home run, it's time he and the Yankees take on another big job:John Harper, Daily News:
Bagging the Red Sox. ...
[T]he Yankees have an opportunity this weekend. They can push the Red Sox out of the race. If they let them get back in it, anything is possible. ...
A lost weekend for the struggling Sawx would put them in a precarious position heading into the final eight weeks of the season. ... The last thing the Yankees need come October is to run into their old pals from Boston. ...
Boston, no matter what, is just too dangerous a team to mess with come October.
[A]fter learning Thursday that Kevin Youkilis will have thumb surgery and is out for the season, the Red Sox appear ready to be put away for the season.Mike Lupica, Daily News:
But do these Yankees have that killer instinct?
Therein lies the intrigue to this four-game series. Joe Girardi's ballclub is 27 games over .500, once again in first place, mostly because it has beaten up on the dregs of the American League, going 23-8 against the Orioles, Indians, Royals and Mariners ... [T]he Yankees are only 14-14 vs. the Rays, Red Sox and Blue Jays this season ...
The Sox have shown enough grit, in the face of an injury plague similar to the one that ruined the Mets in 2009, to make you think the Yankees could be making a mistake by giving them any sort of opening. ...
It is not often the Yankees get the chance to leave the Sox for dead in early August. They really should take advantage of it.
The Red Sox aren't going to catch the Yankees or the Rays for the wild card. ...Mike: If Boston is not catching anyone, as you just stated as a stone cold fact, why does it matter what happens this weekend? ... What? Your columns are merely extemporaneous bullshit that have no meaning, logic or coherence*? I see.
[The Yankees] have to take three of four or maybe all four off the wounded Red Sox this weekend, knock them right out of the conversation ...
* - E.g., "The Yankees are some team. They are some deep team ...".
Since July 3, when the Red Sox were 0.5 GB the Yankees, they have gone 13-15.
There are 53 games left in the regular season. Injuries or no injuries, it's time to stop treading water. As David Ortiz said on Wednesday:
We are running out of time. This is the time when you need to win so you don't have to be rushing out in September. You've got to win. Got to.
257 comments:
1 – 200 of 257 Newer› Newest»Many thanks to Zen and Ish for running the Alt Site.
Happy Birthday, Amy! Sorry we missed it yesterday, I just saw it on my calendar.
Hope you had a lovely day. I know you already got the best birthday present, the little guy in Brooklyn. But now the Sox can give you a present, too!
Last watched a game at home on July 22 - 2 weeks ago yesterday.
For the home stretch: a new avatar and fresh scoring pens.
(Because all that shit affects the outcomes of the games.)
What? Your columns are merely extemporaneous bullshit that have no meaning, logic or coherence*? I see.
Hee hee.
Last watched a game at home on July 22 - 2 weeks ago yesterday.
Worse for me because of the stupid west coast swing. I am craving baseball! Win, pls.
Jeter, SS
Swisher, RF
Teixeira, 1B
Rodriguez, 3B
Cano, 2B
Berkman, DH
Granderson, CF
Cervelli, C
Gardner, LF
And: Rays/Blue Jays
Carlos Delgado -- who turned 38 in June and is rehabbing from hip surgery -- worked out for the Red Sox today. (He has worked out for several clubs.)
Oh man, I don't think I can thread tonight. I'm whipped. I hope I can stay up for the game.
Carlos Delgado = good guy. Peace person.
Whether or not he has any baseball left in him is a separate issue.
Thank you Rogers!!! We almost had to hear M Kay but found NESN on another channel. WHEW.
channel 74 -- if tim is out there tonight
I don't get NESN or YES on MLBTV, I get channel 9, whoever that is.
QUADRANGULAR!!!!!!!!!!!
PAPI DONG!!!
Large Father Dong!!!
Channel 9 is same announcers as YES, just a local station that gets some games.
it's a different ny channel, but the same idiots.
Even if we get swept in this series, at least the Toilet Dwellers got to feel this bit of fear at the hands of a Large Father.
Even if we get swept in this series
Did a troll hack Zen's acct?
My sister is at the game tonight. All of a sudden she's a big NYY fan. I try to avoid it.
So Zen, is Stacie moving to Chicago?
That lead didn't last long..
whatta mistake-a to make-a.
Only the 7th HR allowed by HH
Allan, I mean EVEN if that happened. Not that it's going to. And stop swearing, you goddamn middle-aged so-and-so!
Stacey (I have no idea how to spell her name) decided to stay. I asked her if she wanted a change in her life. She said yes, but that someone important (but not entirely beneficial) in her life had recently moved away, so she thought that would be change enough.
Fuckin' Tex.
fuck you, i'm really 22. old people in their 40s are yucky.
I was sure she'd go! I guess it wasn't right.
A problem person moving away can be a great thing. Or, say, your sister divorcing an asshole. For example.
Don on Beltre: "His plate coverage is amazing and beyond."
Ha ha ha ha haha
yeah, great fielding team, nesn.
LOL Keystone Kops play
I swear I thought Lowell might not make it to 1st even with the E
They call it an E2.
Cmon now, Jed.
Nice. OK LBJ, the time is now.
9 pitch BB - loaded for lbj
Hi, everyone! Welcome back, A&L! And thanks, Zen and Ish, for hosting in their absence.
And thanks, Laura, for the birthday wishes! Yes, Nate was definitely my present this year. But some Red Sox wins would be sweet.
Hate to ask, but...has LBJ had a single hit since he's been back?
i thought he got a gift yesterday but maybe they changed it back.
Whoo-hoo! LBJ walks!
These boots are made for walkin'..
Thanks for the thanks, all. It was my privilege to fill in. It takes some doing. I certainly appreciate the blog even more now.
All right, game tied! (Harvey grumbling about Vazquez.)
No hit needed. Heh.
Sounds quiet in the Bronx.
2/9 of the way there
Zen, when do classes start for you? We have orientation in ten days, classes starting the following Monday. Can't say I am
YES!!!
ready.
Scu Scu Scutaro!
Nice swing!
BACK FOR SOME SCUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!
MAKE HARVEY GRUMBLE!
Scu-Scu-Scutero
/Do we need Christian Bale to give a monolog about him?
Send this fucker to the showers with a blue light special. Pronto.
Don't send him to the showers just yet. It's fun to see our guys score runs!
Legions of Y fans cursing Javier Vasquez's name.
Me, about to step outta the firm.
Why IBB Ortiz...for VMart?
do not Q girardi's genius.
Hey, Happy Birthday Amy!
Did not know, I would've said it in the thread
Congratulations, Zen!
OK Javy is getting squeezed honestly, not that I don't mind.
gaudin up!
You don't get calls when you've proved to be wild.
OK, now let's not let them get those runs back.
booooo. i can deal with 4 runs every 2 innings though, for the rest of the series.
Thanks, Tim!
Zen, when is your last day? You must so excited. I remember my last day before starting my teaching career. I was ELATED!
What are you teaching? What is your schedule like?
I begin teaching Monday 8/16. Lot to do between now and then. Orientations, prep for new classes.
72 minute wait for HH
Aug 16, right around the corner. As if you don't know that!
Wow, August 16 is even earlier than our start date for classes, and I thought our semester was unreasonably early.
I go back the 30th and after only 3.5 months of vacation feel pretty damn sorry for myself.
OK, score more runs!
My first class is Sept 13. My last class was April 6!
I know teachers have a longer schedule, but sheesh, this is such a long break for me.
jays tv just hyped tomorrow's rays/jays game as a "AL East showdown"
Yes, our teaching calendar is pretty sweet. But there is all that other stuff to do.
Funny thing is I never hear our students complain that the semester is too short!
ON FIRE!!
Drewble!
Amy--other stuff???
(Just kidding.)
Oh I meant that only from a student's perspective. I know my teacher friends have a lot to do.
Wow, Laura, that is a really short year! We start August 23 and end around April 23. How in the world do they fit enough in into so few weeks? We have 14 week semesters. Yours must be more like ten!
John, I think we should not let anyone else know what that other stuff is!
Amy, my semesters are 13 or 14 weeks as well.
I guess you have fewer breaks then? No Thanksgiving or fall break, no spring break? Shorter semester break?
Sure wish they had been able to drive Drew home.
Yeah, amy, we'll just keep it on the down low, between us. Civilians just could never understand.....
Thanksgiving is just a Monday here, in mid-October. I don't think there's any week off in the fall semester.
There is "reading week" in the winter term.
Don was all ready to call a Tex dong when it was an obvious fly out.
Nice catch!
Yeah, we have a number of holidays like Columbus Day, Labor Day, almost a week off at Thanksgiving, plus over a month between the end of classes in the fall and the beginning of classes in the spring (but with reading week and exams in between). I guess it all evens out in the end.
Nice work by LBJ there! So nice to see him back out there. I assume the media assholes are not still badmouthing him?
Also, I may have finished a week early each term last year - no exams, and my papers were done.
I think the damage is already done.
Hey everyone!!! Home sweet home. Nothing like a JoS game thread.
I think the damage is already done.
In terms of LBJ? I bet a solid performance for the rest of the season would shut them up.
Hi, Ish!
Yes, in terms of LBJ. I don't think it has anything to do with what kind of season he has for the remainder. It's about laying the groundwork for trading him, IMO.
Hi Ish :)
I bet a solid performance for the rest of the season would shut them up.
I don't think that has ever worked for any Red Sox player - ever.
Read comments at the Globe's Extra Bases posts to see what idiot fans "believe".
I thought that also when all that shit was going around. It seems to have quieted down (not that I read much of what is in the MSM on this stuff). And the trading deadline passed. So maybe not? Plus if you bad mouth a guy too much, will other teams want him?
I don't read that stuff or listen to sports radio. Sort of like advertising and announcers---just noise that I block out as unnecessary.
I read what is here and on a couple of other blogs. That's enough for me.
SHIT.
OK, DP!
berkman seems as slow as slowell
I read and/or listen to absolutely no MSM sports. Not one word. But on blogs I see that is going on.
It doesn't have to be for this trade deadline. And other teams don't care about that stuff - they're looking at the player, not the gossip.
This is typical Red Sox stuff. It's sad, I think. So unnecessary.
It is sad. And so counterproductive.
All right, HH!
i wish other teams ran their front offices based on the stuff mazz and cafardo write.
Thank you for all the kind congratulations.
We have 18-week semesters. Something about getting more funding the more class you have...bleh.
i wish other teams ran their front offices based on the stuff mazz and cafardo write.
OTOH, the Red Sox generally run the team rationally, very different than many teams.
18 weeks! Wow, that allows for a nice slow pace or lots of coverage, depending on how you want to do it.
What are you teaching?
I'm looking around the office thinking, "What am I forgetting?"
Then I remember this is my ergo keyboard under my fingers.
Enjoy the game & thread. Go Sox.
Hmm. Plunked with a fastball.
Arggh. Get these suckers out.
OK, two away
Good good, one more pls.
Shit. I hate that face.
OK, limited damage.
SCORE RUNS.
RUNS PLEASE
no more threading for me tonight. great to see you all. go sox!
An inning or two of scoring - that seems to be the recent trend of Red Sox baseball.
Good to see Lowell hitting the ball.
Good night, Laura. Welcome back to Eastern Time.
joba up
"past a lunging jeter"
Ryan Kalish dong!
KALISH DONG!!!!!!!
YES! I think I like this new guy!
ROOKIE DONG!!!
Youk hunter in the game.
Fuck the MFYs.
was there really talk of the mfy trading jtc? that would be hilarious, considering how their fans jizzed over his every move.
joba getting fatter?
Would you want him in our bullpen?
No.
Never.
That's what I figured you'd say. Too crazy? Not good enough? Just don't like the guy?
Hate him so much, I'd want him to get lit up every single outing. Then I would cackle with glee.
LOL! Sadly, it's the way I am feeling about one of our current players these days.
Mmm. Hoegaarden.
headhunters have no place on the Red Sox.
Yankees should trade for Badenhop.
CLANK-A-LICIOUS!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *takes breath* .... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHA!
Not that I object to giving VMart a hit, but why wasn't that an error?
hey don and jerry - maybe that's why the mfy fielding % is so good. errors get scored as hits.
OK, so it wasn't just me.
Yes no clue why that was not an error
Hi everyone. Crazy summer for me; so busy working I can only look at games with a half of an eye. It's 6:30 here, and leaving work to drive home, not looking forward to John Sterling on XM, but happy to see HH keep it up. Happy birthday Amy and hope to participate in a thread soon.
Hi, WCS! You have been busy, running and traveling and working! Hope things settle down for you soon. Thanks for the birthday wishes!
L: "Is it time for Amy to start worrying about the pen?"
I have been all along. Not feeling good if we have less than a four run lead.
L said "8 run lead".
May not need much pen tonight, anyway.
Eight run lead is even better. But really want to keep Papelbon off the mound.
ramram is gone, jeemer on the dl -- pen is much improved now.
K!
clay at 91 thru 7.
Happy birthday, Amy, by the way. Saw that yesterday... yeah....
I don't miss either of those guys. But...who IS in the bullpen these days who we can trust besides Bard? Atchison? MDC? Wake?
Well, I'm back. Just made a pizza while watching, as per protocol.
This is a good start. Wonder how doubront will be out of the pen (not tonight, just in general) - hoping HH will get the CG tonight.
oh, also welcome back guys! gonna have to catch up on the travel journals on wmtc.
that reminds me, was going to ask you guys if you're heading to a game next week?
Thank you, Benjamin!
"Nay" to all of those for me, Amy.
Manuel put up pretty dece numbers in the minors, wonder why they didn't keep him up for longer. I guess there's that Richardson dude as well.
the bard with 4 blown saves, you mean?
no games for us.
(p.s. i love bard.)
So we have NO one we can trust? I'd still rather see Bard than anyone else in the pen.
Kerry Wood, Lance Berkman, Austin Kearns... none of these new Yankees scare me.
ooo damaso marte! can we see him plz, joe? PLEEEEASE!?!
oh, dl. damn.
It's more like "we have no one YOU can trust"!
No, its pretty much time for complete games from here on out. 1918 style.
I don't think it's just me. See Tim, as another example!
I swear if that fucking 100 pitch mark becomes important in this game, I'm going to sue tito for alcohol poisoning.
Speaking of which, I figured out that BAC rule. Apparently my BAC has to be over a certain level for them to win. Lost a couple while you were away where I only had one glass of wine.
Fuck sakes, Tito. Be ready for my lawsuit.
Time to go to the bullpen. Uh oh. Time for my xanax?
i know!
It's pretty sad when our mop man has to be lifted for Pap in a 6-1 game.
Well, at least he's DLed now. But right now there is no one that inspires confidence in that bullpen to me. Besides steady Daniel.
pro-active tito going to the pen.
nice work from big daddy laptop.
***
no team's pen is going to give you confidence.
OMG, LBJ!!!
THAT'S LAURAS BOY!!!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOO
SOFTIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
---
wait a minnit.
ack - and holds his left side.
BAC, Tim??
Never mind, blood alcohol, I assume?
bard is a goddamn out-getting beast.
Now THAT's a relief pitcher!
OK there was really almost a hit there, but for LBJ, but still...
No, but I'm used to at least having Jeemer not suck. Pap has been much less reliable and RamRam/MDC had/having shittier years. I was a lot more confident in the pen in prior years.
Usually a 5 run lead was fine to call on the pen. Now it has to be at least 10 :)
Tim, do they have 190 proof Everclear in your state? I bought some of that and made some mouthwash. Excellent excellent mouthwash.
Our pen used to give me confidence. Remember when Pap was unhittable and Oki outsmarted everyone with that weird pitching stance/move? THAT was a bullpen.
yup. good old blood alcohol concentration or whatever.
damn, this pizza turned out well. who knew that whole wheat crust could be so tasty.
amy: but didn't that pen have timlin or someone else we all hated?
By the way, Allan, I get the allusion in your avatar but don't understand its significance. Does it have any?
First of all, its a province :>) and second of all, I don't know. I doubt it, I stay away from that stuff though, so I wouldn't know.
Someone had it at a party I was at once, and I used it to clean out a cut that I had at the time.
Yeah, here it's blood alcohol level, so I was thrown off.
Beer does that sometimes.
Timlin? Who was he?
(Just kidding.)
Timlin was respectable in 07...i found this out the other day, and was shocked.
Yeah, the 07 pen's ERAs were mostly in the 3 range, not high 4s like this year.
great album, great art, and the image seems to fit this year.
the mfy payroll is eleventy-billion, and look at the shit they have out there with f-bat.
fuck sakes ortiz.
i suppose that will go as a hit too.
They have enough money to clone Fruitbat by now, in a vat. Perhaps a pool. Maybe an electrified one.
make no mistake, i do not want any cunts or wood in our bullpen.
what we need is that band they had going.
i suppose that will go as a hit too.
So it was scored.
i know we hated him for along time, though. ... anyway, every year's pen had dreck. we tend to forget some of them as the years go on. esp. for old farts like all of you. i, however, am a very young blogger, 24 or so years old.
btw redsock, not sure if you're up on tim bogars latest blunders...fucked up a couple times in one of the spiders games.
did not get any details outside of looking at boxes in the airport last night.
LOL, Allan! Yeah, there were always some losers in there. But at least we had a decent 8th inning guy and a decent closer. I don't feel that way now.
FWIW, I liked Timlin (his pitching, not his politics) in 2004 and for a while before and after.
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