Blue Jays - 010 000 000 - 1 5 0 Red Sox - 220 000 00x - 4 9 0
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.
AL East: Rangers/Yankees and Orioles/Cleveland at 1 PM; Twins/Rays at 4 PM.
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Lowrie, SS
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Cameron, RF
Varitek, C
McDonald, LF
Ellsbury, CF
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.
Escobar, SS
Patterson, CF
Bautista, RF
Lind, 1B
Hill, 2B
Snider, LF
Nix, DH
Molina, C
McDonald, 3B
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."
Happy Birthday to Curt Young (51) and Bob Montgomery (67).
New picture here too. Can't hurt.
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.
I like the anti-lefty line up. It's all business.
BeckOTT
JED!
Jedi up to .500 average!
Jedi!
plate these guys, please
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.
How was that foul? Wow, we can't buy a break.
screw outs! Let's just get runs.
So Patrick, going with the microwave??
Runs > Outs
EB!!! That's the way to do it.
SWEATY HALF DONG!!!
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK
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.
My video was behind, but thanks to Patrick and JoS lingo, I knew that Youk hit a double.
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.
Keep it moving.
That's a great pic, RSDH. You can't look at Papi's smile and not smile yourself.
Here we go, McDonald magic!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
bases loaded, no outs and &
K
K
... come on!!!!!!
b2b Ks...not good. C'mon Microwave, give Patrick another happy moment.
22 MINUTE WAIT.
jesus -- 2 runs and i am still pissed.
2 was not enough. This is looking ugly already.
What was that Tek?
I'll take the Ks. Go Beckett!
EllsBBury. 1st=3rd to LBJ
Lowrie is insane!!!
JED FUCKING LOWRIE, ladies and gentlemen!!!!
JEDI machine. It will be hard to sit him down.
Lowrie 10-for-19 this year (.526) with an OPS near 1.200.
1.361 OPS, actually.
BecKKKKett
Only thing I can find is a torrent stream
Wow, its not blacked out on MLB TV for some reason!
Blacked out for me.
I've got it on mlb.tv
TYB
Tried both Premium feeds and the Basic feed...
I am outside the blackout window I think. It is 11:30 where I am in California.
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NYY - 201 0
California? Well, no shit it's available.
I am in Toronto!!!!
When is the rained out TB game going to be made up?
August 15 or so, I believe.
Nope, I'm on the East Coast and no blackout. I was surprised. Ahh, the Fox games are all at 4:00.
FUCK YEAH
Wow, nasty storms coming through. We were in a toronado warning (very unusual for the valley).
I will be at the day game at OAK on Wednesday.
Edwin Encarnacion is on the berevement list for this series.
have we completely given up trying to throw out base stealers?
With cactus behind the plate? yes
I saw him play for the Cibao Eagles in the Dominican Winter League in December.
Jason No-Throw Varitek
Those games are crazy there was about 10,000 people and the park was as loud as a full Fenway is.
Here is a map of the baseball coverage in Canada;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_MLB_Blackout_map.PNG
FY
This may be our Swing Out Sister game.
Reyes faced 21 batters in 3+ innings. That's nice!
3-7-4-5-3, 94
(the 4 is subject to change)
Is this game moving as slowly as it feels like it is?
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?
"Bluffs to third, bluffs to first, doesn't throw to either locale"
What are the drinking rules for this?
Cameron is a corpse.
i think locale and destination should also count for that
all 3 are clearly part of his phrase for the non-move
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Cameron is a corpse.
And he's batting 60 points higher than Varitek.
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)
SB LBJ!!
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!
Hey there. Been getting ready for Passover while enjoying Beckett being Beckett. Remember 2007?
"So we now have a corpse *and* a cactus on the team?"
And several stiffs....
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!!
That Manny commercial is really irritating.
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.
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.
hey now
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we need more runs.
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.
Beckett!
By way of the K!!!
Two consecutive solid starts from Beckett is VERY good news.
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...
Cameron has a pulse!
Hmm Cameron is getting the lead out now it seems.
Cactus bunt
Nice bunt!
castig with a bit too much enthusiasm for tek's bunt.
On Fire PH
Okay, pen: get 6 outs.
Good try.
CS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg
Not this time dude.
So there, you Tek haters. HA!
Such a terrible time to steal.
Nice work, Shakespeare!
idiotic weei question, mentioned by OB several times today:
"do you think that carl crawford can still have a good season?"
it's part of a commercial - you text in Y or N
So why can't he play every day? What has Scutaro done lately?
jed cannot be denied.
Those are 2 very good questions, Amy.
Christ, at least play him every day while he's white hot!
DOH
OK, Pap. If Beckett can be 2007 Beckett, can you be 2007 Papelbon?
Stop that, Pap.
1
One more to go. And we will have THREE whole WINS!
2
didn't look like an error on the radio
cut the shit, jon.
Come on, damn it.
Good play, Cameron!
WE WON! Imagine that....
Thank you, Josh Beckett.
One-game winning streak!!!
3!!!!!
Here's a quote to start the next game post, Allan:
April 16th: It begins.
Since I'd be posting that on April 17, shouldn't it be:
April 16th: It began.
?
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.
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!
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