Mariners - 200 010 200 - 5 7 0 Red Sox - 012 100 000 - 4 8 2Matsuzaka (4-3-3-4-4, 82) was taken out of the game one batter into the fifth inning in what was later called a precautionary move because of right elbow stiffness. While facing Ichiro Suzuki, Dice's fastball dropped to about 85 and Jason Varitek was quick to call out Terry Francona and trainer Mike Reinold.
In the seventh, with Boston up 4-3, Bobby Jenks allowed a single to Ichiro and a double to Chone Figgins. Jenks struck out Milton Bradley, but the tying run scored on Miguel Olivo's grounder to second. After Jenks walked Justin Smoak, he gave up an RBI double to Jack Cust.
In Jenks's last six outings, covering 4.1 innings, he has given up nine runs and 12 hits. His ERA over that period (18.69) looks almost as bad as the dead rodent he has chosen to glue to his chin, but Francona's irregular usage patterns have not done him any favours. Jenks pitched in three straight games out west (throwing 60 pitches on April 20-21-22), then sat on his ass for a week before working tonight.
Jed Lowrie nearly tied the game in the bottom of the ninth, but his fly ball to deep center was pushed back by the wind and caught by Michael Saunders. If it had been hit a little bit further towards right field, it might have landed in the bullpen.
Mike Cameron hit two solo home runs, one down the right field line and one over the Wall. Kevin Youkilis and David Ortiz had RBI singles in the third. Adrian Gonzalez is looking better and better at the plate. He singled in his first two trips, then grounded out to first (Smoak ranged far to his right to rob AG of a hit) and lined out to right.
Matsuzaka makes his third start since his awful outing on April 11 against the Rays. In two starts against the Blue Jays and Angels, Dice has pitched 15 shutout innings, allowing only two hits and four walks. Here are the number of batters faced in each inning of those starts:
0418 vs TOR - 443 333 3 0423 at LAA - 353 434 33The Mariners are in last place in the AL West, 11-15 and 4.5 GB the Rangers. They have the worst team batting average in the American League (.235)*, the second-worst slugging percentage (.344), and are 9th in on-base percentage (.314). However, they are second in walks (101), one fewer than the league-leading Red Sox. Seattle has allowed 4.54 runs per game, 9th in the AL; Boston is 8th with 4.42.
* Did you know the Padres are batting .208 as a team? Only one of their regulars is batting over .238. In the last seven games, San Diego is hitting .174/.237/.248/.485. It's like an entire team of Saltalamacchias (.191/.255/.234/.489).
AL East: Blue Jays/Yankees and Angels/Rays at 7 PM; Orioles/White Sox at 8 PM.
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Ellsbury, CF
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Lowrie, SS
Cameron, RF
Varitek, C
McDonald, LF
PAbe says Remy is out again and Old Hickory will fill in.
This announcerphile will be all ears.
Question about politics.. what happens if Harper wins a minority gov. on Monday and then gets another vote of no confidence at the next meeting of parliament?
M, many things could happen - several different scenarios are possible. It's likely we won't know who will actually form the govt for a few weeks after the election.
..what happens if Harper wins a minority gov. on Monday and then gets another vote of no confidence at the next meeting of parliament?
Whatever happens in that case will likely be good.
Whatever happens in that case will likely be good.
The danger is that Harper could win a minority govt, table the same budget - and it gets passed. This would be very, very bad.
If the NDP is the official Opposition, we stand a better chance of this not happening.
Please please please.
I was actually just stopping by to say I'll be watching w/o threading, at least until much later tonight. I'm going to do other things while I watch the game.
Like update the wmtc public on Diego! :) (Among other things.)
Later and GO SOX
Old Hickory?
Mr. Peter Gammons.
Don specifies it's a 4-man umpire crew. Thanks!
Are there also three outs per inning tonight?
"Are there also three outs per inning tonight?"
Well it is on NESN so who knows.
Always important to not let Ichiro get on base.
But will they show all 3 outs, that is the question.
dice: figgins has a .238 OBP. do not walk him.
fuck
we should be able to hit Sid Farkas.
Hey Guys, I'm in and out tonight. I'm interested to see what Dice does next inning. I think he plays such a mental game that this could mess him up.
Not me! They were not serving for me!
Total non sequitir unless you are seeing NESN ads.
windy dong!!!
Cameron!
Mike Cameron DONG!!!
nothign wrong with flashing your dong in the wind.
against a bra salesman!
summer nights!!!
Let's continue the earlier rant...
I HATE THE FOOD SPOTS!
yep, it is still a lengthy commercial during an inning, no matter how they frame it.
Gammons unfamiliar with broadcasting rule #1A: "shut up when inning ends"!
sox get the gift call.
I think the ump was fooled by the bathead hitting the ground
and what should have been a K is a BB.
strokin'!
That's not going help his anger management
Keep the bats going.
shift that.
Yay!
PAPI BEATS THE SHIFT!
That was in slow motion.
very nice camerawork from RF showing kennedy moving to his left with the pitch, and then not being able to get way over to his right to snag flo's hit. good stuiff from gammo on vargas maybe not getting the ball inside as much as he should have.
TOR - 002
MFY - 010
I like having Gammons in there with Stanley because he might bring up stuff like the raking of the beach balls and other classic Fenway stuff.
Stanley: the '78 team got off to a slow start.
WHAA????????????
woohoo! rake talk.
JPA just tied the NYY-TOR game
Two walks, no runs? I'll take it.
Camer-dong!
HOLY SHIT ANOTHER CAMERON DONG
Again for Cameron!
Double duty...and a smile from Francona.
cameron looks like he's enjoying himself!
Things are going so well tonight that Cactus got a hit! Woo!
Looks like we're getting the bounces tonight! Haha!
longest homestand of the year - 11 games -- we need to kick a lot of ass.
i went away - wtf happened?
albers
did the ball hit dice? he looked fine while he was waiting for it to come in from the OF.
no visible sign of inj., at least on the most recent pitch. And I could see Tito mouth "Albers"--Don missed it.
Strange. He didn't go after the ball that was hit back up the middle.
"Strange. He didn't go after the ball that was hit back up the middle."
Upon further review, ball was past Dice way too fast, had no time to react.
ball did not come close to him and he had no reaction as if he pulled something. but tek signaled to the bench right away, well even before ellsbury got to the hit.
I'm Senor Optimism but even I get queasy anytime you know it's a 1-6-3 chance.
3-6-1 I mean
Albers also missed the throw back to him after that pickoff attempt!
Upon further review, ball was past Dice way too fast, had no time to react.
Yep, obvious on the replay.
E on Lowrie?? Give me a break.
GDGD is wrong. They quickly changed it to E-ALbers.
Sometimes it's hard to be a sports fan. I'm trying to keep up with the NFL draft, Caps hockey game, and the Sox. My brain is going to explode.
Dice just got hurt?
I was eating.. Hoping Felix Doubront does not have to pick up the phone.
DOH the old line to 1st DP
Clueless about Dice.
Globe: "After giving up a lead-off single to Ichiro in the fifth, Matsuzaka has departed the game because of an unknown injury. Manager Terry Francona, trainer Mike Reinold and assistant trainer Masai Takahashi rushed out to the mound to huddle with Matsuzaka and catcher Jason Varitek."
5 of the 6 pitches were in the zone according to Meeker, and it's a walk.
The 'ol 5 strike walk.
Every time I watch Jenks he is no good.
big K
Just catching up here. Still no word on what happened to DiceK?
I come in, and the game is tied. I must be the curse.
Anyone else but Ichiro and he would have been throwing home.
jenks has been dynamite in 6 of his 9 outings this year.
Also, any word on Jerry?
no word on dice.
jenks on his way to being good 6 of 10.
"right elbow tightness"
right elbow tightness
Elbow tightness?
Damn it Jenks.
bad enough he gives up the lead, but we have to see his fucking disgusting chin, too.
TOR - 002 102
MFY - 010 100
I do not like Jenks.
long wait for vargas may mean he's rusty ...
bard and jeemer up
this is frustrating.
VERY frustrating.
The whole season has been frustrating.
So far...
It feels like he is pitching one pitch every ten minutes. Or else I am just really tired.
Get OKI OUT of there.
beautiful
DP DP
now ... run(s)
bert
yook
flo
jed
cameron...
dong
dong
dong
dong
dong
We are off to DC tomorrow for the weekend. We're going to Ford's Theater tomorrow night and the Capitals game on Sunday night. This is probably good news, as I won't be around for Lackey's start.
Couldn't the GG appoint a new PM for a year if Harper is voted out by Parliament a second time?
He was robbed!
Have fun, Kathryn.
hello thread! surviving tax season...barely.
publicly - congrats on diego! can't wait to meet him.
as for this game, looks like jenks laid some serious stank out. time for a walk-off now pls.
nasty curve.
Thanks, Amy. It should be fun. I've never been to Ford's Theater.
Bad at bat for Youk. Nasty strike 3
"We're going to Ford's Theater tomorrow night .... I won't be around for Lackey's start."
I think this was Lincoln's last diary entry.
Couldn't the GG appoint a new PM for a year if Harper is voted out by Parliament a second time?
No. But if he gets a minority govt and brings his budget and they again vote it down, the 3 parties could ask the GG if they can form a coalition govt (I think).
that budget is horse shit.
I'd say even with all that happened, Lincoln got the better of that deal.
Evening, all--
is anyone going to mention that bard was ALREADY A STARTER IN THE MINORS?????????????
If Jenks were our ace we'd all be sporting those things on our chins....
There's a commercial, I think a NESN Bard-themed one, that starts "Daniel Bard's fastball has been clocked at 98 MPH." Why are they short-changing him?
Brandon "Arroyo" League coming on.
Couldn't the GG appoint a new PM for a year if Harper is voted out by Parliament a second time?
No. But if he gets a minority govt and brings his budget and they again vote it down, the 3 parties could ask the GG if they can form a coalition govt (I think).
I believe that's correct.
To my knowledge, the GG cannot appoint a PM. But the GG can ask the parties to find another way to govern.
This may have been said already, I didn't go thru the whole thread, but the party that wins the most seats does not automatically win the right to form a government. That party wins the right to try to gain the confidence of the HoC.
i wish there were an extra 2 weeks to the campaign; layton and the ndp might catch ol' shitforbrains.
"If Jenks were our ace we'd all be sporting those things on our chins...."
I often have weird facial hair and don't care about his. He could have a celery stalk sticking out of his butt crack, I just want him to be good.
Thanks Tim! I think of you whenever I see those tax ads. Is it almost over?
I would walk around with celery stalks or a bunch of carrots in my ass before I grew one of those fucking dead rodents on my face.
Maybe Cameron will get the hat trick on this hockey night.
MOTHERFUCKEER!!!!!!!!!!!!
god effing dammit
OMFG he caught that
i will accept cameron getting on and an onfire walk off.
Did you see the little salute he gave the fans?
i've had the rodent, on my chin, on my head.... you always look back and say "wow it looked like THAT?" but at the time yr like I'm the man.....
truped.
***
monday is the final deadline, L. so i can see the light!
tie it, pls
what's on League's earlobe?
I would walk around with celery stalks or a bunch of carrots in my ass before I grew one of those fucking dead rodents on my face.
Some people use this term loosely. Around here I save it for when it counts: LOL!
The budget is indeed shit. The big fear is that he'll table it again and THEY'LL PASS IT.
Thereby confirming all of Harper's BS about an unnecessary election.
But maybe they won't pass it.
Hoping.
And for Drew.
But way more for Canada.
those tax ads are also horse shit.
Monday night is a big night in many ways then.
argh...clean.
time for west coast hockey. night all!
Oh fuck. Clean.
Crap!
Another really annoying loss.
shit poop
back to work ..........
Crapola.
G'night all. I'll try to catch you on Sunday afternoon.
I would walk around with celery stalks or a bunch of carrots in my ass before I grew one of those fucking dead rodents on my face.
JoSers, I'll let you know if it ever comes to that.
I am home for the weekend, so I'll be able to watch both games. I would like to enjoy them.
Looked into the earlobe thing, and though I hate to credit Kay for anything, I found this line:
Michael Kay, over a YES close-up of Jays pitcher Brandon League, said, "I see he has earring holders [plugs] in his ear lobes so the holes for his earrings don't close up. I think Babe Ruth did that, too."
Was timing the commercials tonight. Sometimes it was 2:40 or more from pitch to pitch, sometimes it was 2:15. It was set up differently tonight from last night, though, as almost every inning led off with Don reading an ad--so they were almost always back with a solid 20 seconds to spare before the pitch for Don to read the 15 second copy. I'm wondering if this is the weekend format? Will have to check next week during the week to compare.
Jeter/Swisher kill bases loaded rally in 8th! Yanks still trail 5-3.
Fin:
TOR 5, MFY 3
BAL 10, CWS 4
LAA 8, TBR 5
(Santana walk-off grand slam for the Spiders)
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