April 16, 2011

G13: Red Sox 4, Blue Jays 1

Blue Jays - 010 000 000 - 1  5  0
Red Sox   - 220 000 00x - 4  9  0
Beckett was dominating for the second straight start (7-3-1-2-9, 101), lowering his ERA to 1.80, and leadoff hitter Jed Lowrie sparked the offense with three hits, including a two-run home run.

Beckett has allowed only 10 hits and seven walks in 20 innings, an 0.850 WHIP. Looking at the AL leaders, he is in or near the Top 5 in WHIP, H/9, strikeouts, and K/9.

The first five Boston batters reached base in the first inning, but Reyes, down 2-0 and working with no outs and the bases loaded, got two strikeouts and a grounder to avoid further damage. Jacoby Ellsbury walked to start the second and Lowrie -- now batting .500 this year (11-for-22) -- homered to left.

Toronto never had more than one runner on base at any time. Indeed, only in the second inning, when Aaron Hill doubled and Travis Snider singled him home, did they have more than one base runner in any inning.

Adrian Gonzalez singled and walked twice, and made several nice plays at first base. Mike Cameron, who began the day hitting .091, had two hits in four trips. David Ortiz walked three times, and Ellsbury walked twice, stole a base, and was hit by a pitch.

The Yankees (8-5) beat the Rangers 5-2, so the Red Sox (3-10) remain 5 GB.

Picture from the great Natalie Dee website.

Example
Jo-Jo Reyes / Josh Beckett

AL East: Rangers/Yankees and Orioles/Cleveland at 1 PM; Twins/Rays at 4 PM.

124 comments:

allan said...

Lowrie, SS
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Cameron, RF
Varitek, C
McDonald, LF
Ellsbury, CF

Kathryn said...

New day, new picture, new mojo.

Let's turn this thing around.

I went to bed last night thinking that this start will make the turn around even sweeter. Imagine how incredulous all those MFY fans will be when we surpass them in the standings.

allan said...

Escobar, SS
Patterson, CF
Bautista, RF
Lind, 1B
Hill, 2B
Snider, LF
Nix, DH
Molina, C
McDonald, 3B

allan said...

Crawford (7-for-51, .137/.185/.157, a -4 OPS+) gets the day off:
"From the outside looking in, I guess I'm trying to do too much. ... I probably need to try and do a little bit at a time. ... I feel normal, but I guess I probably am trying to do too much. ... You look up there and you see that 1-something average. You try and get it all in one at-bat."

allan said...

Happy Birthday to Curt Young (51) and Bob Montgomery (67).

Patrick said...

New picture here too. Can't hurt.

RedSoxDiehard said...

OK, so I've been in attendance for both wins, and I'm going again tomorrow. But please, Red Sox, do not wait for me to get there.

Patrick said...

I like the anti-lefty line up. It's all business.

Patrick said...

BeckOTT

allan said...

JED!

allan said...

Jedi up to .500 average!

Kathryn said...

Jedi!

Patrick said...

plate these guys, please

RedSoxDiehard said...

I went to bed last night thinking that this start will make the turn around even sweeter. Imagine how incredulous all those MFY fans will be when we surpass them in the standings.

Love this.

Kathryn said...

How was that foul? Wow, we can't buy a break.

Patrick said...

screw outs! Let's just get runs.

Kathryn said...

So Patrick, going with the microwave??

allan said...

Runs > Outs

Kathryn said...

EB!!! That's the way to do it.

Patrick said...

SWEATY HALF DONG!!!

allan said...

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK

RedSoxDiehard said...

New profile pic for me now too, though it's still Papi. But this is one I took last Sunday as he walked out during BP with D'Angelo, and it makes me smile.

Kathryn said...

My video was behind, but thanks to Patrick and JoS lingo, I knew that Youk hit a double.

Patrick said...

I went to the Price/Lester game and Darnell hit a dong. It was the only fun part about the game.

I'll rock him as my Avatar for awhile.

allan said...

Keep it moving.

Kathryn said...

That's a great pic, RSDH. You can't look at Papi's smile and not smile yourself.

Patrick said...

Here we go, McDonald magic!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

allan said...

bases loaded, no outs and &

K
K

... come on!!!!!!

Kathryn said...

b2b Ks...not good. C'mon Microwave, give Patrick another happy moment.

Kathryn said...

22 MINUTE WAIT.

allan said...

jesus -- 2 runs and i am still pissed.

Patrick said...

2 was not enough. This is looking ugly already.

Kathryn said...

What was that Tek?

Patrick said...

I'll take the Ks. Go Beckett!

Patrick said...

EllsBBury. 1st=3rd to LBJ

Patrick said...

Lowrie is insane!!!

allan said...

JED FUCKING LOWRIE, ladies and gentlemen!!!!

Kathryn said...

JEDI machine. It will be hard to sit him down.

allan said...

Lowrie 10-for-19 this year (.526) with an OPS near 1.200.

allan said...

1.361 OPS, actually.

Kathryn said...

BecKKKKett

meunier said...

Only thing I can find is a torrent stream

meunier said...

Wow, its not blacked out on MLB TV for some reason!

allan said...

Blacked out for me.

Kathryn said...

I've got it on mlb.tv

meunier said...

TYB

allan said...

Tried both Premium feeds and the Basic feed...

meunier said...

I am outside the blackout window I think. It is 11:30 where I am in California.

allan said...

TEX - 000 0
NYY - 201 0

allan said...

California? Well, no shit it's available.

I am in Toronto!!!!

meunier said...

When is the rained out TB game going to be made up?

allan said...

August 15 or so, I believe.

Kathryn said...

Nope, I'm on the East Coast and no blackout. I was surprised. Ahh, the Fox games are all at 4:00.

meunier said...

FUCK YEAH

Kathryn said...

Wow, nasty storms coming through. We were in a toronado warning (very unusual for the valley).

meunier said...

I will be at the day game at OAK on Wednesday.

meunier said...

Edwin Encarnacion is on the berevement list for this series.

allan said...

have we completely given up trying to throw out base stealers?

Kathryn said...

With cactus behind the plate? yes

meunier said...

I saw him play for the Cibao Eagles in the Dominican Winter League in December.

Patrick said...

Jason No-Throw Varitek

meunier said...

Those games are crazy there was about 10,000 people and the park was as loud as a full Fenway is.

meunier said...

Here is a map of the baseball coverage in Canada;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_MLB_Blackout_map.PNG

Kathryn said...

FY

Kathryn said...

This may be our Swing Out Sister game.

allan said...

Reyes faced 21 batters in 3+ innings. That's nice!

3-7-4-5-3, 94
(the 4 is subject to change)

Patrick said...

Is this game moving as slowly as it feels like it is?

RedSoxDiehard said...

OK, this is the second time today Don has said "doesn't throw to either locale." Did someone finally tell him a base is not a venue, or is it bingo paranoia?

Edward Lee said...

"Bluffs to third, bluffs to first, doesn't throw to either locale"

What are the drinking rules for this?

meunier said...

Cameron is a corpse.

allan said...

i think locale and destination should also count for that

all 3 are clearly part of his phrase for the non-move

allan said...

TEX - 000 000 0
NYY - 201 000

allan said...

Cameron is a corpse.

And he's batting 60 points higher than Varitek.

Kathryn said...

So we now have a corpse *and* a cactus on the team?

Venue: the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)

Kathryn said...

SB LBJ!!

allan said...

Red Sox trying to win their 3rd game of the year.

The fookin Orioles won their 3rd game on April 3 -- two weeks ago tomorrow!

Amy said...

Hey there. Been getting ready for Passover while enjoying Beckett being Beckett. Remember 2007?

johngoldfine said...

"So we now have a corpse *and* a cactus on the team?"

And several stiffs....

allan said...

Just heard a sports talk radio commercial that L mentioned to me this morning. Lots of slagging of Manny.

It's grating, for sure, but let's remember that Manny was traded half way through 2008!!! It's coming up on THREE YEARS AGO!!!!

Jesus - give it up already!!

johngoldfine said...

That Manny commercial is really irritating.

allan said...

I think what bothers me is that they are using *that* to entice listeners --as though nothing worth talking about has happened to the Red Sox since July 2008.

Amy said...

If you had asked me when Manny left, and I didn't look it up, I would have said 2009 at the earliest. It just doesn't seem like three years.

allan said...

hey now

TEX - 000 000 02
NYY - 201 000 0

allan said...

we need more runs.

johngoldfine said...

The thing that irritates me about the Manny commercial is that it's all ancient history: what new information does anyone have, what is there left to say? None, nothing, and nothing likely either (I except Posnanski who did a nice piece on Manny, which basically says there's nothing to left say but says it wonderfully.) So, the radio show just winds up being the same old shit recycled forever.

Amy said...

Beckett!

By way of the K!!!

allan said...

Two consecutive solid starts from Beckett is VERY good news.

allan said...

what new information does anyone have, what is there left to say?

In their minds, the PED stuff means that everything else they ever said about Manny was true. And they want to trumpet that. Over and over and over and over and over...

allan said...

Cameron has a pulse!

meunier said...

Hmm Cameron is getting the lead out now it seems.

meunier said...

Cactus bunt

Amy said...

Nice bunt!

allan said...

castig with a bit too much enthusiasm for tek's bunt.

meunier said...

On Fire PH

allan said...

Okay, pen: get 6 outs.

Amy said...

Good try.

allan said...

CS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

omg

meunier said...

Not this time dude.

Amy said...

So there, you Tek haters. HA!

Edward Lee said...

Such a terrible time to steal.

Amy said...

Nice work, Shakespeare!

allan said...

idiotic weei question, mentioned by OB several times today:

"do you think that carl crawford can still have a good season?"

allan said...

it's part of a commercial - you text in Y or N

Amy said...

So why can't he play every day? What has Scutaro done lately?

allan said...

jed cannot be denied.

allan said...

Those are 2 very good questions, Amy.

allan said...

Christ, at least play him every day while he's white hot!

meunier said...

DOH

Amy said...

OK, Pap. If Beckett can be 2007 Beckett, can you be 2007 Papelbon?

Amy said...

Stop that, Pap.

Kathryn said...

1

Amy said...

One more to go. And we will have THREE whole WINS!

Kathryn said...

2

allan said...

didn't look like an error on the radio

allan said...

cut the shit, jon.

Amy said...

Come on, damn it.

Amy said...

Good play, Cameron!

WE WON! Imagine that....

Amy said...

Thank you, Josh Beckett.

allan said...

One-game winning streak!!!

Kathryn said...

3!!!!!

Pokerwolf said...

Here's a quote to start the next game post, Allan:

April 16th: It begins.

allan said...

Since I'd be posting that on April 17, shouldn't it be:

April 16th: It began.

?

laura k said...

I can't thread from work, so I have to wait til now to say:

Don't drink the water! IT IS DIRTY!

I guess I was off by one day. I thought the huge winning streak would begin on Friday, but I see it began today.

Jere said...

I am a fan of that artist (now), but for the record, there was nothing springtime-like about Fenway Park today. We brought blankets and we could see our breath. Blankets!