Blue Jays - 010 000 000 - 1 7 2 Red Sox - 040 002 02x - 8 8 1Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Jacoby Ellsbury -- the #8 and #9 hitters in the order -- each drove in three runs, as Boston cruised to its second straight victory. After an 0-6 start, the Red Sox have gone 4-4.
Four straight hits in the second -- singles by Jed Lowrie, J.D. Drew, and Salty, and a three-run bomb to right field from Ellsbury (his 3rd homer of the season) -- quickly erased Toronto's lead and gave Lester (6-6-1-3-5, 110) a decent cushion to work with.
Salty's second single of the afternoon drove in two runs in the sixth. In addition to his hit in the second, Lowrie also reached base twice on errors. His line drive past first baseman Adam Lind in the eighth scored the Sox's final two runs; it was ruled a two-base error.
Please lose less often than every game.AL East: Orioles/Cleveland (1 PM); Twins/Rays (1:30 PM); Rangers/Yankees (8 PM).
It is not necessary or proper to honor Earth Day by turning the lights out on the 2011 season.
Giving the other teams in the AL East a 10 game head start may "sound" like a good idea in theory, but it's not actually one.
Please turn your 3rd one game winning streak of the season into a two game winning streak. Is it really that fucking hard to win two in a row!!! Thanks for listen.
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Jed Lowrie has reached base in 11 of his last 16 plate appearances. So let's drop him from leadoff down to #6 and put the guy with the .185 OBP and fuckin -4 OPS+ at the top of the order. Brilliant.
Crawford LF
Pedroia 2B
Gonzalez 1B
Youkilis 3B
Ortiz DH
Lowrie SS
Drew RF
Saltalamacchia C
Ellsbury CF
It is not necessary or proper to honor Earth Day by turning the lights out on the 2011 season.
Love it.
Lineup obsession.
Love it not. Matters not. He's playing, let's be glad for that.
Baseball players are very delicate creatures..... And Carl Crawford is a 9th spot away from completely wilting....I am actulaly shocked Lowrie is playing , this has to be the end for Marco, I could see starting Jed against a lefty , but this is a sure sign he will be the SS. And if he goes 0-4 does he bench him. I am always amazed how mangers treat lower paid athletes. they use them more as pawns they can actually actulally move were high paid guys offer no flexibilty....
Lineup obsession.
I got through 13 games without a complaint (I think).
This team needs every edge it can get. Why not give the most PA to the hottest guy on the team? Then again, if the 3-4-5 guys get on, he can drive them in. (Plus, The Craw might go 5-for-5 today.)
(If Lowrie had the PA to qualify, he'd be #1 in MLB in AVG, #2 in OBP (#1 in AL), and #3 in OPS (#2 in AL).)
Escobar SS
Patterson CF
Bautista RF
Lind 1B
Hill 2B
Arencibia C
Snider DH
Rivera LF
Nix 3B
Tito Explains It All:
On Crawford being back in the lineup:
"We talked for a little while. I just wanted to do a couple of things: reassure him how we feel, which I think is pretty obvious and find out if I can help, how can I help? I haven’t been around him for forever. He actually was really good. He said he feels good. If work has anything to do with it ... he almost beat us to the ballpark today. I thought a day yesterday of being in the cage and not having to take it right into the game sometimes can help. Once he gets going — I think we all know it, I know I do — he’s going to get real hot. Hope it starts today. This is certainly not a guy who when he doesn’t hit, you run from. He’s going to be a huge part of our offense."
On Lowrie hitting sixth:
"We talked about that a little bit last night. Jed’s so hot right now, how do you keep him out of the lineup? Then the thinking was, he’s such a good righthand hitter, if we sandwich him in between the two lefties, maybe that takes away a potential opportunity for Toronto’s bullpen."
When did the Red Sox last win two games in a row? The final two games of last year.
Last three-game winning streak: September 22-25, 2010.
"tito explains...."
He makes it make sense, sort of.
Is there a delay?
1:35 start
That Yook error in the 9th yesterday was changed to a hit.
all 3 balls to bautista look like they are on the edges of strike zone in gdgd's f/x data.
Crawford homer to start?
I'll pay $1 to see that.
blup
Krawford.
This has got be pretty fucking humiliating for CC
If EB made it to 2d "easily" with his speed, that passed ball must have been hard to find....
I hate it when OB says, as he did after AG went to 2nd, "a base hit from Youkilis will give the red sox a run". Not necessarily, especially with a slug like AG.
He did all night on Friday. When the Sox were rallying, "a base hit will score two". He states it like it's a rule. It's not.
A bit ago Allan you were referencing the pitchfx thing to justify what at the time seemed like a horrible call on a bad pitch. What I meant to say then is I noticed that if the pitch is called a strike but is obviously out of the zone they just drag it back to the edge of the zone on pitchfx. If its a ball they leave it where it was. This is from a fair amount of empirical evidence.
baseball announcers always have a problem with verb tenses--they create a 'fantasy future' tense that somehow keeps the standard present in form but not in intent--you've put it in the actual future tense, but I always hear: a base hit now ties this game; if that ball gets past the catcher, a run scores
it is the same problem i have with "scoring position". yeah, the guy can score from there, but not always. i always think of a person who doesn't understand baseball very well hearing the game - and being confused when the run actually doesn't score on the single.
wasn't there a game in which dumbo could only go from 2nd to 3rd on a crazy fenway double?
Yes!
andy: but i have also gone back and seen the ball well outside the zone on a pitch that was called a game-ending strike 3.
come on, houdini.
fuckin shit
fuckshit
What a cheap ass run
why wouldn't they just let him have second via defensive indifference???
too early in the game?
(wouldn't it be a SB for the same reason?)
I would hit that like Papi
although "too early" would also be a good reason to not throw down against a running team that might try to come home from third.
Salty fucked up the checkdown
#5 3,H
#8 CS
FC?
Cool.
O. FIRE!
come on, salty.
hit for fucks sake
Two men on. Now we just need to get through our three pitchers to Pedroia.
2 hits in a row!!!!!!
(Sad that that's a cause to celebrate..)
3 HITS!!!!!!!!!!!
WOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
salty on fire!
Salty redeems himself!
Salty!
Put some salt on that rib eye!
(Okay, maybe not)
Seeing eye run scoring single.
OB: ellsbury has a stolen base in each of the last 2 games.
wow.
LBJ DONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fufkcing yeah!@!@!
Yeeha!
Right fielder pulls up an hour before the ball was hit.
JACOBY!
LYNDON B. JOHNSON FLASHING SOME DONG.
LAURA'S BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Crushed!
Four? Seriously? Wow.....
Boston's 1st 3-run dong this year.
... not a bad shot for a "pitcher".
4-1 again.
Orioles have lost 6 straight and are down 3-1 in the 6th to the Spiders.
Well now, 6 - 9 get consecutive hits, then 1 & 2 effectively crush the momentum. meh, It'll work out though
Maybe the basement homeschooling is finally doing some good.
cats and mouses.
Yes, whatever L did to him in the basement...it worked!!
DP!
Laura email:
MY BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is going to take some getting used to. My streaming video is behind.
Man, that really could have hurt Lester.
Catch the ball CC.
Any good reads lately (Crawford)
I have work and am muting the game, but will put comments through as often as I can. Should be back for the last few innings.
Why don't they put LBJ back in left and CC in center?
Was that last strike t Bautista as high as GDGD showed it to be?
Maybe this is the reason:
Crawford
LF: 1180 games (includes today)
CF: 54 games
excuuuuse me!
Was that last strike t Bautista as high as GDGD showed it to be?
I think it was high, he tried to check his swing, but gave a half-hearted effort instead.
I would much rather have LBJ in center. I don't think anybody else can cover the ground he can.
just pointing out a good reason why the sox won't do it (i didn't know the game splayed were so one-sided). they certainly would not do anything while he is unable to hit.
(Bautistas funny swing)
Sportsnet pointed out Bautista talking to Patterson between innings. Talking about running with 2 strikes on the batter?
For the Jays, it's broke bat mountain.
The other side of the green monster.
Nix's slam would have been a HR anywhere else - instead a single! He was running for the double out of the box; good play off the wall by CC.
That steal was announced - the whole league knew he was running on that pitch. Slow breaking ball for a low ball and Nix has his 2 bases.
Sorry you have to work Allan, I'll stop interrupting your concentration - so you can get back to the game sooner. See ya!
break time!
loaded for salty.
in play, run(s)
!!!!!!
FUCK YOU BOGAR
More salty rib eyes!!
rut-roh ... bogar?
(#8 and #9 hitters with 3 RBI each)
castig said bogar waved him.
I'm watching hockey and following on GDGD. Was it close? Drew trying to score from first?
Really impressed that Drew was even close to scoring. It looked like he hadn't even rounded third when Bautista fired the ball back in.
"don't bogar that baserunner"
boingoingoing :(
Now I'm watching on the computer. Lowrie just booted a perfect DP ball, everybody safe.
FY with the DP!!!!
Go higher!
Was with my computer guy for a while. Did Bard start the 7th? Or did Lester get in trouble?
Oops. Nevermind.....Found it in the box score. 2 Batters and out. Guess it was trouble
With these Jays a BB is a double - it seems every time they get on base they steal.
Double steal?
it seems every time they get on base they steal
With Salty de Milo back there, why not?
(Hill didn't move.) Salty not good with the arm thing?
I watched every game the Jays have played - they're running no matter what the battery.
jenKs
I like this Jenks better than Friday's.
EB 2B!
PASSEDBALLA!
Loaded for Lowrie!
MEET YOUR MASTER, JED LOWRIE!
two base error and no rbi?
Swing Out Sister!
(Yes, it's corny, but I'm going to keep posting it until somebody acknowledges what I'm talking about.)
i know it's something music-related, but not the scissor sisters.
Their big (only?) hit was Breakout in the '80s. Yesterday's game was the Red Sox "breakout" game. And it continues.
I was looking at the scorecard from Friday - I forgot about the 4 run 7th with all the fake steals that rattled them both.
Different game when Varitek is in.
let's nail this shit down.
Don't hurt yourself Youk.
1
Break Out! The Toronto Blue Jays way.
I knew this would happen.
For reference purposes only: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnivOKYyWLY
2
nice and quick, is wheeler.
Wheelin' dealin'
3.
See you tomorrow morning.
one step at a time
4-10, 4.5 GB
3.
Dirty two in a row!!
YeeHA! A 2-win streak! We rule! There's no stopping us now! Watch out world! It's on!
(Let's see, did I miss any?) ;>
Who knows? Maybe its a start.
I really do think we'll be in it at the end. I just wish we weren't starting in such a hole
Can't win 10 in a row without winning the first two!
MFY tonight; O's and Rays lost:
MFY 8-5 ---
TOR 7-8 2.0
BAL 6-8 2.5
TBR 6-9 3.0
BOS 4-10 4.5
4.5 out with 148 to play.
A mere bag of shells.
Delayed can't-thread-at-work reaction:
THAT'S MY BOY!!!!!!!!!
and
Don't drink the water! It's dirty!!
So disappointed to miss tomorrow's game, my favourite of the regular season. I'll be able to catch an inning or two from the airport, so I'll check in with the thread from there.
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