Red Sox - 000 000 000 - 0 3 0Buchholz (1-5-5-4-1, 39) was unable to get into any sort of groove and the A's whacked everything that was in the strike zone. Of Buchholz's 39 pitches, only 17 were strikes -- and he retired only two of the 11 batters he faced.
Athletics - 320 000 00x - 5 8 0
The first five A's reached base in the first inning: single/stolen base, walk, two-run double, walk, single. And the first four A's reached base in the second inning: walk, single, walk, two-run single.
The game began with Coco Crisp leaping high over the center field fence and robbing Ryan Kalish of a home run. The Red Sox managed only three hits, each of them coming with two outs in an inning: Josh Reddick's double in the second, Adrian Beltre's single in the fourth, and Victor Martinez's single in the sixth.
The Rays frittered away leads of 6-0 and 8-1, but held on to beat the Jays 9-8. The Rangers used 11 pitchers and beat the Yankees 6-5 in 13 innings.
AL East:Kalish, CF
Drew, RF
Martinez, C
Ortiz, DH
Beltre, 3B
Lowrie, SS
Reddick, LF
Hall, 2B
Anderson, 1B
Rays/Blue Jays, 7 PM
Yankees/Rangers, 8 PM
106 comments:
SoSHer gcapalbo: "Who indeed should care about realism, or likelihood, or even expectations at this point. There are games to be played, and until that day that we are mathematically eliminated -- I like this kind of discussion quite a lot. When the situation is reversed, and we are on top, the talk always is of the Yankees or others catching us, so why not go here. ... There will be a long cold winter upon us before long, so why not enjoy it all in the meantime."
Crisp, CF
Barton, 1B
Suzuki, C
Cust, DH
Ellis, 2B
Hermida, RF
Davis, LF
Larish, 3B
Pennington, SS
PA: "While going through the Atlanta airport yesterday, there was an announcement that the State Dept. had determined that "due to recent events, travelers were urged to take extreme caution if going to Afghanistan." Right, because normally Afghanistan is pretty much like St. Thomas. Only the "recent events" like the war make it dangerous."
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FKR - 6
TOR -
Thanks, Jays.
Useless Jays
mitch was right. if the red sox have a chance of catching anyone, its mfy. fkr have a much easier schedule and theres 6 head to head games that boston must clearly sweep.
not that i expect it, but it would be sweet if the final series vs. mfy had playoff possibilities.
Maybe the Jays are not useless...
FKR - 610 10 - 8
TOR - 100 22 - 5
Jose with Dong #45 in the 5th.
MFY - 0
TEX - 0
hmm, maybe i should stick with the mfy game on tv. ever since i changed it, jays are doing well.
PeteAbe: Wonder how many folks in New England will stay up late for this one?
Way to insult your audience, dumbass.
holy shit! j-bau
1B open, 2 outs, FKR pitch to Bautista. ... DONG #46! 8-8!
FKR - 610 100 00
TOR - 100 220 3
MFY - 004 0
TEX - 010
As feed....BOOOOO!
You took away my HD rogers, the least you can do is give me NESN!!!!!
nvm allan, printed out a scorecard. shittier than yours but it'll do, esp for a noob like me.
hookah on, beer open, scorecard filled out...
lets do it!
oh, ococ, why?
Oh COME ON, ocoC!
damn you, Ococ!
oak announcers "that is the worst called strike i have ever seen"
Hookah! Nice.
least demonstrative strike 3 call of all time.
Jerry Lane puts Tim McClelland to shame.
these guys are fun, so far.
is ray fosse one of those guys?
he sucks.
oh, ococ, why?
Oh COME ON, ocoC!
damn you, Ococ!
x3 now.
Orsillo, on Barton: "Leads the majors in walks with 96 walks."
ENOUGH, Ococ. Cut it out!
fuck sakes, clay.
fucking fuck, you fucking fuckers.
good ol hermida
stupid as. also, i dunno who the announcers are.
FKR - 610 100 001 - 9 9 1
TOR - 100 220 300 - 8 9 2
Useless.
MFY - 004 001
TEX - 010 00
are you scoring, allan? i might need pitch counts from you later on, stupid oak feed doesn't show it and im not counting pitch by pitch, only by inning.
yeah, working and listening and scoring with nesn/mlbtv and gdgd
larish....like kalish, but not.
Larish Anderson?
good old ragging on shit teams.
discussing how cle, kc, bal and some other teams have already been eliminated.
"well, they had Xes beside their names in april...imaginary Xes!"
I didn't tune in until the bottom of the first.
Yuk Clay, c'mon.
I just saw the replay of Ococ's catch. Bummer
And I'm glad Tim got his hookah going. Enjoy.
ugh, strikes clay! fucking strikes pls!
thats not it.
houdini then.
richardson up;
inherited runners, look out.
Wow, what is this shit?
damn - early night.
ugh.
should've started him on weds. wtf were you thinking, tito?!
maybe he can go on sunday now!
A real barn burner, this. Just makes me want to burn a barn, really.
oak said they should throw him tmrw!
steph's home. therefore, it is wine time.
at the rate this game is going at, it might be vodka time soon.
idiot barton.
I want to see that scorecard of yours if you get into the vodka.
its bad enough now.
it will probably end up on the hookah coal if i get into the vodka.
has anyone ever listened to the black keys?
i've been getting into them a lot lately, great music. like the white stripes, but way better.
fucking christ. enough with the walks!
Yes, Black Keys are good. I have heard only a bit, though.
Another great two-man band: Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm. Great droning North Mississippi blues.
bowden up
sweet. loaded for later.
that reminds me, i need to download me some howlin' wolf.
richardson being oki on that last pitch (2-2) - cranked his head down. same on that one.
Not such a fan of the Black Keys or the White Stripes, but I'm familiar with them. Listening to Tom Petty right now.
black keys just released a more poppy album recently, different, but good.
but a lot of the songs sound similar.
why is there a yellow line at the top of the wall in foul territory (RF)?
joba gives up a dong to tie it 5-5 in tex.
As trivia - which former A holds the red sox season record for Ks (hitter)?
hmm.
been meaning to check out the Black Keys for a while. First you tube clip is solid. I'm assuming Cedric Burnside is an offspring of the late, great R.L. Burnside and their sound reminds me a lot of Junior Kimbrough (which the BK's vid is a cover of). Here's some nice Junior Kimbrough:
Meet Me in the City (song BK covered)
Done Got Old (I love this one)
so many other great tracks by him...
Here's a different blues track I've been listening to a lot lately: Geeshie Wiley - Last Kind Words.
I've apparently been enjoying the blues a bit more than this game. sigh, I'm now at the point where I'm almost almost willing to admit defeat on the season. I'd been holding out.
go Kalish!
kalish has a gun.
ok. how to score that?
lol
a little high on that one.
sweet, thanks for the videos nick!
yup, its that time of the year...blues all over the place.
it IS bellhorn. wasn't sure if he was a former A or not.
MFY - 004 001 00
TEX - 010 201 01
galarraga pitched in detroit tonight with joyce behind the plate.
wonder if he got a nice big strikezone.
nick - you are correct re burnside.
way back when i was a music critic, we saw a fat possum blues caravan in nyc that featured kimbrough (and maybe burnside; i should remember, but i am not sure). amazing stuff.
i can leave work at midnight -- i see very little reason to stick artound for the game. might miss 2 innings while driving home.
if i wasn't trying to score this, it would be a lot more shitty.
As announcers calling him bow-den (as in, "take a bow" as opposed to "the archer's bow")
ok then.
I wrote about Burnside when he died about 5 years ago (and included the thing I wrote about the Fat Possum gig. It was a summer night in 1995 at The Bottom Line in New York City. This was for Request magazine:
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R.L. Burnside is seated center stage with a guitar in his lap, but this isn't MTV Unplugged. The 68-year-old Mississippi native's amp is cranked. The room is rocking.
Burnside is doing what he does best -- working a one-chord riff back and forth into a sensual groove -- during the opening night of the Fat Possum Mississippi Juke Joint Caravan in New York City. The tour, which also features Junior Kimbrough and David Thompson, continues through September.
Burnside and Kimbrough are well-known neighbors in Mississippi's northern hill country; Kimbrough runs a popular juke joint in Chulahoma off Highway 4. While both guitarists are labeled "traditional" players, they are neither nostalgic nor conservative musicians. Rather, they have resisted outside influences and kept their music vital -- a living, breathing tradition that continues to evolve.
Unlike most modern blues musicians, Kimbrough and Burnside wouldn't grandstand if you paid them. They rely on gritty hip-shaking rhythms, and though both players draw from the region's musical history, their presentations are very different. Burnside's raw, emotional slide work compels you to dance to even his most morose blues, while Kimbrough's songs of unbridled lust are eerily somber and pensive. His minimalist grooves are unlike anything in modern blues, flowing thick as molasses, enveloping the listener like quicksand.
Burnside and Kimbrough rarely play outside the South, although Burnside has appeared at various festivals and toured Europe. The Caravan also is a family outing for Burnside, whose 18-year-old grandson, Cedric Jackson, plays drums behind him. The immensely talented Jackson flew into New York a few hours before show time; his high school exams allowed him to miss the 27-hour (mostly unair-conditioned) bus ride from Mississippi to Manhattan.
Backstage, Burnside and Kimbrough laugh off the length of that trip. They're looking forward to giving the rest of the country a dose of what fuels Kimbrough's juke on Sunday nights.
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nice! i enjoyed reading that, much better than rehashed box scores :P
you gotta write more...have you considered getting into the toronto music scene at all?
OUCH! NICE!
I recall reading that post at the time, but I see I never commented on it. When Burnside and Kimbrough played in NYC, I knew about the show, but didn't go. So many good shows I've missed, but I go on.
(pick at third: nice!)
First show I remember going to was seeing John Lee Hooker when I was 5 or 6 at the UMass student union ballroom. I remember going up and standing right at the front of the stage transfixed.
have you considered getting into the toronto music scene at all?
not at all. i stopped covering music when i started researching 1918 and never missed it. the assignments and $ were never all that much, though piles of free CDs coming to the house was nice.
and yes, a great, evocative read. That's the kind of writeup that if I hadn't heard of 'em would have me stitching off to the record store (back then--now I just steal shit on the internet (and then go to the record stores for the key records).
i think the only time i saw hooker was the big tribute concert at madison square garden. i think it was on my birthday.
... (googlin) ...
yes, it was on my birthday .. in 1990. OMG.
okay, gotta run. mod is back on, but keep jabbering and i'll put it thru when i get home.
wow, i can't believe you missed 10 red sox runs while you were driving home!!!!! this is great!
...
Don just read Jerry's promo for an upcoming NESN show... including the "join Don, Heidi, and me" line.
bb. theres the start of the rally. base cloggers on.
yay - home in time to see the last 2 outs.
102?
... and there we go.
galumpkis.
i can fax you my scorecard so you can fill in your blanks
:P
well, time to watch some MFY-TEX. record amount of pitchers used apparently. haven't bothered to check if that's fact or not. 8 for MFY, at least 9 for TEX.
yes just showed highlight of sox game, NESN in HD. so infuriating. i really would like to call rogers and bitch about this.
they removed ALL of the MLB EI HD channels for NFL. fine by me to show NFL but still - WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING NBA CHANNELS!??!!?! the season doesn't start until after baseball!!!!! why not remove those excess channels?!??!
Our pen totally rocks! Richardson, Bowden, Coello, and Manuel: 7 innings, 3 hits, 0 runs, 4 walks, 5 strikeouts. Fuckin solid, man!
PC by 5 Sox pitchers: 39, 37, 31, 33, 8.
Yeah, was a great pen performance.
I also noted from *my scorecard* that the bottom of the lineup appears to have seen more pitches than the top.
Most pitchers used by 1 team in 1 game: 11, by Seattle, September 25, 1992 (16 innings).
MFY have used more than 8 only 1 time: 10 on September 22, 2007.
Most by 2 teams in 1 game: Could be 18, by Cardinals (10) and Pirates (8) on September 30, 2007.
11 for Rangers now!
yeah, i saw that BR post about most by one team...tex tying that so far with 11 tonight thus far...
mfy have used 8, making it 19 total...if the record was 18, this could break it!
just stop and comprehend that for a second....19 fucking pitchers! goddamn.
can only happen in september, really.
Nelson Cruz dong!!!!!
DUH YANKEES LOSEE!!!!!!!!
Hello trolls!
Javy Lopez sporting a 2.29 ERA in SF.
Why can't we....oh fuck it.
Night.
Yankees lose.
MFY - 004 001 000 000 0 - 5 13 0
TEX - 010 201 010 000 1 - 6 9 0
and he retired only two of the 11 batters he faced.
but he made it to the 2nd...i'm such a prick when i score games (all 2 of them) eh?
1 guy hit into a double play. so as far as "batters", he got 2 of them, and recorded 3 outs.
Oh snap. You've done been pwned, Tim.
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