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May 4, 2011

G30: Angels 5, Red Sox 3 (13) 

Angels   - 000 000 201 000 2 - 5 12  2
Red Sox  - 000 000 012 000 0 - 3 11  0
This one finally ends at 2:45 AM, as Daisuke Matsuzaka takes the loss in his first major league relief appearance. He pitched the 13th inning, allowing a leadoff single before getting two pop outs. Then he gave up another single, a walk (loading the bases), and a two-run single to Bobby Abreu.

The Red Sox rallied to tie the game in the ninth. Jed Lowrie walked and Mike Cameron singled. With Carl Crawford at the plate, the ball got away from Angels' catcher Hank Conger. Lowrie took off for third. Conger's throw was wild, and the ball (instead of going into left field) caromed off the umpire's leg out to the shortstop position.

Lowrie scored, but Cameron was thrown out on an ill-advised attempt to get to third. So Boston trailed 3-2, with no one on base and one out. Crawford doubled to left center, and after Jason Varitek struck out, Jacoby Ellsbury lined a single to right field to tie the game.

With one out in the 11th, and Marco Scutaro on first, Kevin Youkilis nearly won the game with a dong, but his fly ball hit high off the Wall, no more than a foot for two from the top. Third base coach Tim Bogar waved Scutaro home, but then changed his mind and put up the stop sign. It was too late, however, and Scutaro was gunned down at the plate.

Because of the lengthy rain delay (2 hours, 35 minutes), Boston did not get its first hit until 12:17 AM!

Check out Jere's blog for play-by-play details of the final six innings.

8:31 PM: Rain delay, with one out in the top of the fifth. Beckett: 4.1-1-0-3-3, 68. Santana has not allowed a hit: 4-0-0-1-7, 61.

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Ervin Santana / Josh Beckett

Beckett and the Red Sox (14-15) will try to get to .500 for the first time this season. They were 10-11 on April 26, but lost the next two games.

Beckett has allowed the fewest H/9 in the AL (5.3). The only stingier pitcher in MLB is Florida's Josh Johnson, who has allowed a freakishly low 3.9 H/9 (18 hits in 41 innings; opposing batters are hitting .130/.195/.196).Beckett also has the third-lowest WHIP in the AL (after Dan Haren and Jered Weaver) and is 10th in K/9.

In their last 17 games, the Red Sox have a team ERA of 2.37 (2.61 RA/9 overall). They have scored 4.7 R/G over that time, hitting .265/.337/.421.

AL East: Orioles/Royals at 2 PM; Blue Jays/Rays at 6:30 PM; Yankees/Tigers at 7 PM.
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151 comments:

  1. allanMay 4, 2011 at 12:32 PM

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

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  2. FenFanMay 4, 2011 at 1:22 PM

    I have a feeling that if the game is played that it will be a soaked affair. Weather forecast calls for lots of rain over the next two hours or so and more to follow. Let's hope we can get a ball game in between the rain drops!

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  3. allanMay 4, 2011 at 3:39 PM

    Our backyard is a swamp. The dogs run around for 10 seconds and their legs and bellies are covered in mud. I am so fucking sick of the rain and drying them off, and doing laundry.

    So, Mr. Rain! Do not fuck with my baseball games.

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  4. allanMay 4, 2011 at 4:03 PM

    ugh - espn for me.


    and on sportscenter, sutcliffe mentions one pitcher as having "one of those swing-and-miss fastballs".

    better than having "one of those it-gets-jacked-into-the-upper-deck fastballs", i suppose.

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  5. Gregory LynnMay 4, 2011 at 4:04 PM

    In their last 17 games, the Red Sox have a team ERA of 2.37

    This is just sick. If everything proceeds apace and we really have Good DiceK, Good Beckett, Good Lackey, and OMG Lester to go along with Buchholz then we're really really going to win an astonishing shit ton of games.

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  6. JereMay 4, 2011 at 4:13 PM

    So many balls being hit to the Triangle lately. It seems.

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  7. allanMay 4, 2011 at 4:16 PM

    wow - what a shit throw

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  8. allanMay 4, 2011 at 4:18 PM

    OB and nomar on espn. nomar finds it interesting that abreu swung at the first pitch and flied out after a 4-pitch walk. (yeah, interesting...)

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  9. allanMay 4, 2011 at 4:25 PM

    DP!

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  10. allanMay 4, 2011 at 4:29 PM

    man, it's pouring.

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  11. KathrynMay 4, 2011 at 4:31 PM

    wow - what a shit throw

    It really was. We decided that my father-in-law could have stolen second on that throw (in his motorized scooter, of course).

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  12. allanMay 4, 2011 at 4:44 PM

    ah fuck, flo.

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  13. allanMay 4, 2011 at 4:45 PM

    tiz lines a ball off his right ankle. ouch.

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  14. AmyMay 4, 2011 at 4:51 PM

    Good evening. I am on and off, answering student questions by email all night and tomorrow night before the exam on Friday. In the old days they had to come see me in person. This is much more efficient, but more do it so it consumes more time overall. So anyway---not much threading for me til the exam is over!

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  15. allanMay 4, 2011 at 5:07 PM

    MFY - 000
    DET - 013

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  16. allanMay 4, 2011 at 5:23 PM

    yook drilled in left wrist - flexing it at first base

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  17. KathrynMay 4, 2011 at 5:24 PM

    Amy, do you teach over the summer?

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  18. JereMay 4, 2011 at 5:31 PM

    We were just about to go out and get ice cream. Perfectly timed rain delay.

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  19. allanMay 4, 2011 at 5:32 PM

    tarp out - and as per curt young comment pre-game, end of beckett's night.

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  20. allanMay 4, 2011 at 5:33 PM

    JB: 4.1-1-0-3-3
    ES: 4.0-0-0-1-7

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  21. AmyMay 4, 2011 at 5:36 PM

    No, Kat. I have never taught during the summer. It was one of the gifts I gave myself when I started teaching. I do write over the summer, but I do not teach.

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  22. allanMay 4, 2011 at 5:38 PM

    flipped over to the det/mfy. tigers with 2 on and 1 out off garcia in the 5th, up 4-0.

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  23. JereMay 4, 2011 at 6:49 PM

    Ys LOSE

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  24. allanMay 4, 2011 at 6:52 PM

    A good night:

    MFY - 000 000 000 - 0 4 0
    DET - 013 000 00x - 4 10 0

    TOR - 200 100 000 - 3 8 1
    TBR - 000 001 001 - 2 7 0

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  25. allanMay 4, 2011 at 6:54 PM

    starting in 15-20 minutes?

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  26. allanMay 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM

    PeteAbe tweet:

    RT @Nippy
    Funniest thing Pedroia's done lately?

    @PeteAbe
    Told me I should have kids so I can tell them I covered him

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  27. JereMay 4, 2011 at 7:07 PM

    Tarp still on.

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  28. JereMay 4, 2011 at 7:08 PM

    "could see baseball in 45 minutes"--TC. That's the minimum.

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  29. JereMay 4, 2011 at 7:36 PM

    dumpin the tarp

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  30. JereMay 4, 2011 at 7:41 PM

    11:05 ish start

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  31. allanMay 4, 2011 at 7:49 PM

    espn says it will return to the game at 11:02.

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  32. JereMay 4, 2011 at 7:49 PM

    Albers

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  33. JereMay 4, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    11:05 right on sked

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  34. allanMay 4, 2011 at 8:08 PM

    vernon sasahe

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  35. JereMay 4, 2011 at 8:15 PM

    we go bottom 5 at 11:15 eastern

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  36. JereMay 4, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    Santana and this guy are pitching a COMBINED NO-HITTER

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  37. allanMay 4, 2011 at 8:19 PM

    let's get a run, play 6, and call it a win.

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  38. JereMay 4, 2011 at 8:27 PM

    goddammit cameron

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  39. allanMay 4, 2011 at 8:29 PM

    damn, really, take your time, mike. no hurry.

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  40. JereMay 4, 2011 at 8:29 PM

    ha, Werner, Larry, Henry giving out hot chocolate to fans--real fans, not up in the suites or anything

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  41. allanMay 4, 2011 at 8:32 PM

    rut roh - wheeler up

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  42. allanMay 4, 2011 at 8:37 PM

    ump refuses to call the inside strike for albers

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  43. JereMay 4, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    way to get outta that! "strand a pair"

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  44. allanMay 4, 2011 at 8:38 PM

    this sort of feels like extra innings

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  45. JereMay 4, 2011 at 8:42 PM

    "first time I've ever seen Scioscia sittin' down" -Eck

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  46. JereMay 4, 2011 at 8:58 PM

    Fucking Verizon or whoever's in charge of commercials on NESN. Game comes back for a second, so I can see action's about to start, then local ads for fucking "Club Fantasies" cut in, and I know I have to be missing the game. The ads finally end, and the ball is rolling in left field, I see I missed two pitches including the hit and the ball going off the wall.

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  47. allanMay 4, 2011 at 8:59 PM

    fucking goddamn wheeler.

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  48. allanMay 4, 2011 at 9:01 PM

    it ain't workin', tito.

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  49. JereMay 4, 2011 at 9:12 PM

    tying run up

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  50. JereMay 4, 2011 at 9:12 PM

    Eck on Downs: "If he's not hurt he's got salad."

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  51. JereMay 4, 2011 at 9:15 PM

    ump oughtta clean that plate

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  52. JereMay 4, 2011 at 9:17 PM

    there goes your no-hitter!!

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  53. allanMay 4, 2011 at 9:18 PM

    cleaning crew at work in the bleachers, getting ready for day game tomorrow!

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  54. JereMay 4, 2011 at 9:19 PM

    i'll be there!

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  55. JereMay 4, 2011 at 9:34 PM

    Nice double for Tek. Tying run up..

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  56. allanMay 4, 2011 at 9:35 PM

    we've had fun with rodney before ...

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  57. JereMay 4, 2011 at 9:40 PM

    Dustin swinging and missing again...

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  58. allanMay 4, 2011 at 9:41 PM

    YAY!!

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  59. JereMay 4, 2011 at 9:42 PM

    Tying run in you know where position

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  60. allanMay 4, 2011 at 9:43 PM

    conger was a bit surprised to see the ball flying by him!!!!!!

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  61. JereMay 4, 2011 at 9:45 PM

    1st pitch Papi?

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  62. JereMay 4, 2011 at 9:56 PM

    Scutaro fucking around out there, thinking the small rowdy crowd must mean the game's out of reach.

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  63. ZenslingerMay 4, 2011 at 10:02 PM

    Damn, y'all's is still up?

    Guess we have our work cut out for us in the bottom of the 9th.

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  64. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:02 PM

    Bottom 9, here we go!

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  65. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:03 PM

    All the other games are final, are you shitting me?

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  66. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:05 PM

    count goes full on Jed. "Hesitation cheese" from this pitcher, per Eck.

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  67. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:05 PM

    100 MPH!

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  68. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:06 PM

    walk! Tying run up! If this game goes extra innings, Wallace Matthews will die.

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  69. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:07 PM

    i may die, too. almost gave up in the 8th, could not stay awake. but i have a second wind now (or maybe a breeze)

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  70. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:08 PM

    Scioscia, realizing the field is a pond, brings in Walden. And we're on him! Two on, no outs! Dong will WIN it!

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  71. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:08 PM

    matthews: "i see wakefield pitched in that game, no wonder it lasted until 1:30 AM."

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  72. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:08 PM

    win this shit, craw.

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  73. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:09 PM

    late inning HR in the rain? crawford could become a true yankee tonight

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  74. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:09 PM

    you can't call that a strike

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  75. ZenslingerMay 4, 2011 at 10:10 PM

    Two on, mofos!

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  76. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:10 PM

    oh my shiting god...fucking fuck. nesn missed the play anyway showing the damn runner scoring

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  77. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    that was strange. damn ump's leg.

    shock me, tek. i have no faith in you.

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  78. Straddling the BorderMay 4, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    Bogar is constantly costing the team runs.

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  79. ZenslingerMay 4, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    OUT AT THIRD?

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  80. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    garbage, bob bailey-esque ab.

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  81. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:13 PM

    stupid excited gamble by cameron.

    come on, lyndon...........

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  82. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:14 PM

    this game should be tied or won by now.

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  83. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:14 PM

    i fear a K on a cvhange

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  84. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:15 PM

    and the ump's leg! I forgot about that in the commotion!

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  85. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:17 PM

    HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    LBJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  86. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:17 PM

    woohoooooooooooo fuck yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh tiieeeedddddddd I woke Kim up with YELLS, and she's a sound fucking sleeper!!!

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  87. ZenslingerMay 4, 2011 at 10:17 PM

    Niiiiice!

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  88. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:18 PM

    ah damn - i need sleep ....

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  89. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:21 PM

    Matthews signals to the pen

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  90. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:26 PM

    Oh wait Matthews didn't do anything since he died when it went extras. Very nice play by Pap covering first for a rare 4-1 putout.

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  91. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:28 PM

    Nice tag, Lowrie

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  92. ZenslingerMay 4, 2011 at 10:30 PM

    Even on the West Coast, I need to go to bed.

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  93. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:35 PM

    bottom 10 here we come!

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  94. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:36 PM

    scutaro
    yook
    tiz
    jed...

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  95. ZenslingerMay 4, 2011 at 10:36 PM

    MLB Network has some highlights, finally, but can't show the end of the game.

    I am sure I'm not the first to think of it -- but imagine what our W-L record is against teams that are not the Angels!

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  96. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:37 PM

    Okay, I said this in like the 7th inning--I want this game to be won on a HR that just hits empty seats and bounces around as fans chase it while celebrating. Do it!

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  97. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:38 PM

    Scutaro, with his delayed, one-hop throw and mistimed jump put us here. Now he needs to get us home.

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  98. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:42 PM

    Darnell, steal second, then Mueller singles you home

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  99. ZenslingerMay 4, 2011 at 10:42 PM

    C'mon Jed. Let us go to bed.

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  100. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:44 PM

    Darnell, steal second, then Mueller singles you home

    and then we play 3 more innings?

    JED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    can cameron atone?

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  101. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:44 PM

    bloops one over third! Second and third! win it!

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  102. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:47 PM

    11th.

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  103. ZenslingerMay 4, 2011 at 10:47 PM

    Bed for me. Go Sox.

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  104. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:50 PM

    Dice-K up in the pen!

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  105. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:50 PM

    bard = nasty

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  106. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:51 PM

    whaaaaa? are you kidding?

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  107. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:52 PM

    Matsuzaka really is out there. Warming.

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  108. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:52 PM

    there he is, oh boy.

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  109. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:54 PM

    double. man on second 1 out. need to K this guy.

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  110. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:55 PM

    gets the K!

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  111. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:57 PM

    I wanted to get there for batting practice tomorrow but I'm not so sure either team will be awake for that. We go bottom 11, tied.

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  112. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:58 PM

    next game starts in 11.5 hours.

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  113. allanMay 4, 2011 at 10:59 PM

    dear sox: please win now, i'm falling apart. thanks.

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  114. JereMay 4, 2011 at 10:59 PM

    which means gates open in 9.5. And I need sleep and time for an hour's drive plus the time it takes to find parking.....

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  115. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM

    I think Eck dozed off...

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  116. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:01 PM

    Remy: zzzzzzz

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  117. AnonymousMay 4, 2011 at 11:03 PM

    Man, ifya bought a ticket to tonight's game, you got your money's worth.

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  118. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:03 PM

    Gammons: Swing for the fences, Jacoby!

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  119. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:05 PM

    damn. 12.

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  120. AnonymousMay 4, 2011 at 11:07 PM

    I don't know why you guys are soo tired, its only 10 o'clock. Here in Alaska though haha

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  121. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:09 PM

    I wish I was at this game.

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  122. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:10 PM

    Maicer IzzyAlcanturis strikes out.

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  123. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:13 PM

    bottom 12! Fisk leading off?

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  124. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:13 PM

    should i make a cup of tea?

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  125. BeansMay 4, 2011 at 11:13 PM

    If you bought a ticket you most likely left. Empty Fenway during gametimes always looks so very strange..

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  126. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:15 PM

    "If you bought a ticket you most likely left."

    Right but I never leave early, so these are the games I live for. When you're the only one left and you get every foul ball. The stuff dreams are made of.

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  127. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:17 PM

    who is still out in the pen? jenks?

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  128. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:18 PM

    Come on Marco, Monster Seats.

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  129. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:18 PM

    Eck said they're saving Jenks for tomorrow. But Dice is still out there.

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  130. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:19 PM

    woohoo, winning run on first.

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  131. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:20 PM

    Allan I've been live-blogging this one since the 8th! Feel free to leave a comment over there, ha.

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  132. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:21 PM

    cock.

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  133. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:21 PM

    holy. fuck. out at the plate.

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  134. BeansMay 4, 2011 at 11:23 PM

    i would love to be there now. The crowd there seems really awesome.
    Gerrr at that last play though >:[[

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  135. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:24 PM

    first and third.

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  136. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:24 PM

    fuckin bogar waves him in, then tried to stop him.

    when will the sox fire that fucker?

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  137. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:24 PM

    13th.

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  138. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:28 PM

    1st relief app. for dice!

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  139. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:30 PM

    I would enjoy a DP. "I still can't believe that ball didn't go out" --Orsillo

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  140. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:31 PM

    Ha, Nomar got it

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  141. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:33 PM

    dice should be able to take us to the 25th or so.

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  142. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:34 PM

    Dewey woulda had that guy at 3rd

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  143. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:35 PM

    almost a disaster

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  144. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:40 PM

    shit

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  145. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:40 PM

    goddamn

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  146. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:41 PM

    i think bed is very near.

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  147. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:42 PM

    let's see who they trot out to the mound

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  148. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:43 PM

    wish it was just a 1-run game

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  149. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:44 PM

    hacking like crazy here

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  150. allanMay 4, 2011 at 11:46 PM

    'night!

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  151. JereMay 4, 2011 at 11:46 PM

    loss

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