May 3, 2011

G29: Red Sox 7, Angels 3

Angels   - 010 000 002 - 3  9  0
Red Sox  - 000 002 14x - 7 12  1
The Boston bats finally got to Haren in the sixth, as Jacoby Ellsbury doubled with one out and Adrian Gonzalez (tied game 1-1), David Ortiz and Jed Lowrie (gave Sox 2-1 lead) all singled.

Carl Crawford singled in the seventh and sprinted around to score on Jarrod Saltalamacchia's double off the Wall in left-center. Gonzalez began the eighth with a home run into the Angels bullpen off Haren, then Ortiz followed with a shot down the right field line on reliever Hisanori Takahashi's second pitch. Marco Scutaro added a two-run dong to left-center later in the inning.

Lester (7-6-1-1-11, 93) fell behind 1-0 on Mark Trumbo's home run in the second, but he outlasted Haren, and struck out 10+ batters for the 15th time in his career. Lester escaped a small jam in the first, when LAA had a man at third with one out. The Angels had runners at first and second with no outs in the fourth, but Erick Aybar lined to Dustin Pedroia, who doubled Vernon Wells off first with a throw to Gonzalez.

Daniel Bard got three grounders to second in the eighth, and after Jonathan Papelbon allowed two singles, a double, and a line drive sac fly in the ninth, he shut the door.

Ellsbury's hitting streak is now at 12 games, and Gonzalez's streak is at 10. Lowrie, Scutaro, and Crawford each had two hits; Crawford also walked and stole a base.Dan Haren / Jon Lester
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AL East: Blue Jays/Rays at 6:30 PM; Yankees/Tigers at 7 PM; Orioles/White SoxRoyals at 8 PM.

80 comments:

allan said...

Ellsbury, CF
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Drew, RF
Lowrie, SS
Crawford, LF
Saltalamacchia, C

Stuff:
Red Sox have won 11 of 16

Ellsbury has hit in 11 straight games (18-for-47, .383)

Gonzalez has hit in 9 straight games (15-for-38, 395)

Lowrie is 4 of his last 25 (.160)

Crawford is 9 of his last 31 (.290) with 5 extra-base hits and 7 RBIs

Jere said...

NESN: "Youkilis: Out of Lineup (Illness)"

allan said...

Ellsbury, CF
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Ortiz, DH
Lowrie, 3B
Drew, RF
Scutaro, SS
Crawford, LF
Saltalamacchia, C

Amy said...

No more celebrations tonight?

allan said...

I'm sure the US murdered someone in Iraq today, but maybe it was a 5-year-old girl, so that would not inspire such universal yahoo-ism ...

allan said...

L looking at NYT website, sees this headline:

US Corrects Earlier Accounts of Terror Leader's Killing

White House officials on Tuesday sought to correct the official account of the raid that ended in the killing of Osama bin Laden.

***

That was quick.

Jere said...

amazing play

allan said...

pedroia has been amazing out there the last two nights - nice reach from bert, too

Jere said...

base knock. two-out rally begins

Jere said...

i didn't know the ump was gonna redefine paint there

Amy said...

YES!

Kathryn said...

WHEELS!!

allan said...

hit did not look deep enough, worried lbj would be out by 5-10 feet. whew!!!

allan said...

haren having issues!

allan said...

lester at 74 thru 6

Kathryn said...

Keep it going. I want more RBIs.

Kathryn said...

That looked way inside.

Jere said...

got those 2-out runs an inning late

Kathryn said...

I'm in and out. Is that 11 Ks?

allan said...

yes

Amy said...

Nice to CC hitting his stride!

Amy said...

Yes!!

Amy said...

Poo.

allan said...

bard coming in

Zenslinger said...

Yanks down 4-1. Could have been worse for CC (Double Cheese).

allan said...

brad penny sticking it to the mfy

Jere said...

bridges the gap between Lester and Pap with an OTT: Bridge It BardOTT

Amy said...

OK!!

allan said...

mighty evil dong ........

Jere said...

1st Fenway Fundong For AG

laura k said...

Yay!

(Not threading but wanted to share the joy.)

(Bye now.)

allan said...

QUADRANGULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jere said...

back/back

Zenslinger said...

Back to back!

Kathryn said...

b2b!!

allan said...

TEE PARTY!!!!!!!!!!

Amy said...

HOLY SHIT! Are we on fire or what??

laura k said...

A dongathon!

Jere said...

that guy reached out but prob would have landed on top or over

allan said...

eck: this is just wasting our time

allan said...

i colored in the runs, so they better get it right

Zenslinger said...

Reviewing Scutaro's HR?

allan said...

yup - and ruled a dong

Jere said...

Three dong frame and counting

allan said...

bot in -

Zenslinger said...

8th inning Texieria HR closes gap to 4-2.

Amy said...

2010 Papelbon

allan said...

okay - 2 garbage-time runs - now get outs

Kathryn said...

1

Jere said...

sit johnny

Jere said...

Ithaca is Borjous. WIN

Amy said...

Dirty water.

Kathryn said...

2

Kathryn said...

3. Dirty time.

Jere said...

Yanks down 2 going to the 9th. The 3 Js coming up. Jorge, Jones, and Russel Martin (who had J. Martin on his jersey in the WBC). End of game is on MLB Network right now.

Jere said...

But they're also showing Liriano's no-hitter in the 8th.

Jere said...

No hitter thru 8! There was a really nice play in the 7th.

Jere said...

Tigers WIN. We're 4 games out.

tim said...

here we go with the no-no bid.

tim said...

PBP guy on whatever feed this is on EI is brutal.

Jere said...

DP = no-hitter. HR = loss.

allan said...

this white sox announcer needs a glass of water

allan said...

Would be his first CG, too!

tim said...

"Hopefully with one bad pitch Adam can make it 2-1"

Solid color there.

allan said...

never had a CG at any pro level

the non-raspy guy is a total asshole.

tim said...

120 pitches for Liriano

allan said...

yep, that was a dick call.

Jere said...

I've got the Twins guys on MLBN

allan said...

one more out and he will be dunn

tim said...

not looking forward to getting this feed when red plays white.

Jere said...

woohoo! fun 2 see

tim said...

there it is. well done, liriano.

allan said...

liriano-no

allan said...

sox annc so very excited ......

like a 6-2 mid-May game when you are 10 GB

tim said...

your partner was sick? sounds like you caught whatever it is your normal colour guy had.

allan said...

not looking forward to getting this feed when red plays white.

that's when we go with the radio and i keep telling myself that it's better that the cws guys.

where was the hawk?

tim said...

where was the hawk?

shhhhh, if we don't ask maybe we won't have to deal with him any more!

tim said...

...the lead on this post says Orioles/White Sox, lol.

allan said...

the lead on this post says Orioles/White Sox, lol.

shut up.

(orioles are the visiting team in the game listed below the cws game at bref.)

tim said...

interestingly, edwin jackson was the cws starter tonight, who had a similar no-no last year with AZ (at TB) - lot of walks, pitches.