Angels - 000 000 201 000 2 - 5 12 2 Red Sox - 000 000 012 000 0 - 3 11 0This 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.
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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Ellsbury, CF
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Lowrie, SS
Cameron, RF
Crawford, LF
Varitek, C
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!
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.
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.
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.
So many balls being hit to the Triangle lately. It seems.
wow - what a shit throw
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...)
DP!
man, it's pouring.
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).
ah fuck, flo.
tiz lines a ball off his right ankle. ouch.
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!
MFY - 000
DET - 013
yook drilled in left wrist - flexing it at first base
Amy, do you teach over the summer?
We were just about to go out and get ice cream. Perfectly timed rain delay.
tarp out - and as per curt young comment pre-game, end of beckett's night.
JB: 4.1-1-0-3-3
ES: 4.0-0-0-1-7
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.
flipped over to the det/mfy. tigers with 2 on and 1 out off garcia in the 5th, up 4-0.
Ys LOSE
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
starting in 15-20 minutes?
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
Tarp still on.
"could see baseball in 45 minutes"--TC. That's the minimum.
dumpin the tarp
11:05 ish start
espn says it will return to the game at 11:02.
Albers
11:05 right on sked
vernon sasahe
we go bottom 5 at 11:15 eastern
Santana and this guy are pitching a COMBINED NO-HITTER
let's get a run, play 6, and call it a win.
goddammit cameron
damn, really, take your time, mike. no hurry.
ha, Werner, Larry, Henry giving out hot chocolate to fans--real fans, not up in the suites or anything
rut roh - wheeler up
ump refuses to call the inside strike for albers
way to get outta that! "strand a pair"
this sort of feels like extra innings
"first time I've ever seen Scioscia sittin' down" -Eck
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.
fucking goddamn wheeler.
it ain't workin', tito.
tying run up
Eck on Downs: "If he's not hurt he's got salad."
ump oughtta clean that plate
there goes your no-hitter!!
cleaning crew at work in the bleachers, getting ready for day game tomorrow!
i'll be there!
Nice double for Tek. Tying run up..
we've had fun with rodney before ...
Dustin swinging and missing again...
YAY!!
Tying run in you know where position
conger was a bit surprised to see the ball flying by him!!!!!!
1st pitch Papi?
Scutaro fucking around out there, thinking the small rowdy crowd must mean the game's out of reach.
Damn, y'all's is still up?
Guess we have our work cut out for us in the bottom of the 9th.
Bottom 9, here we go!
All the other games are final, are you shitting me?
count goes full on Jed. "Hesitation cheese" from this pitcher, per Eck.
100 MPH!
walk! Tying run up! If this game goes extra innings, Wallace Matthews will die.
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)
Scioscia, realizing the field is a pond, brings in Walden. And we're on him! Two on, no outs! Dong will WIN it!
matthews: "i see wakefield pitched in that game, no wonder it lasted until 1:30 AM."
win this shit, craw.
late inning HR in the rain? crawford could become a true yankee tonight
you can't call that a strike
Two on, mofos!
oh my shiting god...fucking fuck. nesn missed the play anyway showing the damn runner scoring
that was strange. damn ump's leg.
shock me, tek. i have no faith in you.
Bogar is constantly costing the team runs.
OUT AT THIRD?
garbage, bob bailey-esque ab.
stupid excited gamble by cameron.
come on, lyndon...........
this game should be tied or won by now.
i fear a K on a cvhange
and the ump's leg! I forgot about that in the commotion!
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LBJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
woohoooooooooooo fuck yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh tiieeeedddddddd I woke Kim up with YELLS, and she's a sound fucking sleeper!!!
Niiiiice!
ah damn - i need sleep ....
Matthews signals to the pen
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.
Nice tag, Lowrie
Even on the West Coast, I need to go to bed.
bottom 10 here we come!
scutaro
yook
tiz
jed...
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!
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!
Scutaro, with his delayed, one-hop throw and mistimed jump put us here. Now he needs to get us home.
Darnell, steal second, then Mueller singles you home
C'mon Jed. Let us go to bed.
Darnell, steal second, then Mueller singles you home
and then we play 3 more innings?
JED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can cameron atone?
bloops one over third! Second and third! win it!
11th.
Bed for me. Go Sox.
Dice-K up in the pen!
bard = nasty
whaaaaa? are you kidding?
Matsuzaka really is out there. Warming.
there he is, oh boy.
double. man on second 1 out. need to K this guy.
gets the K!
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.
next game starts in 11.5 hours.
dear sox: please win now, i'm falling apart. thanks.
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.....
I think Eck dozed off...
Remy: zzzzzzz
Man, ifya bought a ticket to tonight's game, you got your money's worth.
Gammons: Swing for the fences, Jacoby!
damn. 12.
I don't know why you guys are soo tired, its only 10 o'clock. Here in Alaska though haha
I wish I was at this game.
Maicer IzzyAlcanturis strikes out.
bottom 12! Fisk leading off?
should i make a cup of tea?
If you bought a ticket you most likely left. Empty Fenway during gametimes always looks so very strange..
"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.
who is still out in the pen? jenks?
Come on Marco, Monster Seats.
Eck said they're saving Jenks for tomorrow. But Dice is still out there.
woohoo, winning run on first.
Allan I've been live-blogging this one since the 8th! Feel free to leave a comment over there, ha.
cock.
holy. fuck. out at the plate.
i would love to be there now. The crowd there seems really awesome.
Gerrr at that last play though >:[[
first and third.
fuckin bogar waves him in, then tried to stop him.
when will the sox fire that fucker?
13th.
1st relief app. for dice!
I would enjoy a DP. "I still can't believe that ball didn't go out" --Orsillo
Ha, Nomar got it
dice should be able to take us to the 25th or so.
Dewey woulda had that guy at 3rd
almost a disaster
shit
goddamn
i think bed is very near.
let's see who they trot out to the mound
wish it was just a 1-run game
hacking like crazy here
'night!
loss
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