Athletics - 000 002 104 010 00 - 8 14 0 Red Sox - 100 013 020 010 01 - 9 18 1J.D. Drew, who had struck out in his previous four at-bats, lined a single to right-center with two outs in the fourteenth inning, scoring Carl Crawford (4-for-7, and 3 RBI) with the winning run. The hit came on the 495th pitch of the afternoon.
It took some effort, but the Red Sox remain undefeated this season (26-0) when leading after eight innings.
The Red Sox won despite blowing a four-run lead in the ninth with Jonathan Papelbon on the hill. The A's comeback was greatly assisted when Dustin Pedroia botched a double play ball that could have ended the game at 7-3. Later in the inning, Papelbon and Jason Varitek were both ejected, though in separate incidents, both involving home plate umpire Tony Randazzo.
Boston had to rally after Oakland scored a run in the 11th inning, as well. With two outs, Jarrod Saltamaachia and Jacoby Ellsbury (4-for-7, double, 2 SB) both doubled.
Adrian Gonzalez was 3-for-5 (he hit his 11th home run in the first inning), but he was pinch-run for in the 10th with Drew Sutton, and Boston missed his bat in extra innings. In the 11th, after Ellsbury had doubled to tie the game, Pedroia was intentionally walked. Sutton struck out to end th einning. Sutton also lined out to second to end the thirteenth with two men on.
The A's used nine pitchers, while Boston used "only" seven. Alfredo Aceves pitched the final four innings.
This game was originally scheduled for 7 PM, but was moved to 1 PM so it did not conflict with the Bruins/Canucks in Stanley Cup G2.
One extremely pleasant surprise of the first two months of the season is the resurgence of David Ortiz. Among AL hitters, Flo is 8th in AVG and OBP, 4th in HR, SLG, OPS, and Total Bases, 9th in Hits, and 6th in Extra-Base Hits and Runs Created.
In 15 games since May 19, Ortiz is hitting .414/.452/.862/1.314. He has at least two hits in 10 of those 15 games. Of his 24 hits, he has eight doubles and six home runs.
After striking out in 21.4% and 23.9% of his plate appearances in 2009 and 2010, respectively, Ortiz is fanning only 10.2% of the time this year. (He has never had a season below 15% in his major league career.) Ortiz is putting the ball into play in 74% of his PA (his highest % for a full season in Boston is 66%). That in-play percentage, coupled with a big decrease in swings-and-misses is why his 2011 walk rate is the lowest since joining the Red Sox.
AL East: Rays/Mariners at 4 PM and Yankees/Angels at 9 PM.
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Ellsbury, CF
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Crawford, LF
Lowrie, SS
Drew, RF
Varitek, C
MFY 31-24 ---
BOS 31-26 1.0
TOR 29-28 3.0
FKR 29-28 3.0
BAL 25-30 6.0
We've never beaten the Athletics at home on June 4th. (0-1, 1925) This is the year!
Hope next saturday is better than this for your sake!
Hope next saturday is better than this for your sake!
Indeed.
Nine teams are in violation of MLB's debt service rules, according to the LA Times. The rules limit a team's debt to ten times its yearly earnings. The teams: Dodgers, Mets, Orioles, Cubs, Tigers, Marlins, Phillies, Rangers, Nationals.
Astros gave Bill Hall (.224/.272/.240, 158 PA) his unconditional release.
I'll actually get to thread today! I'm at work (which means I'm doing nothing productive) and the Bruins are not on at the same time.
The rules limit a team's debt to ten times its yearly earnings
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pure evil.
Evil Bert flashing some dong!
With 2 outs, Sox get evil and sweaty.
So I missed an EB dong. I was able to go back and see it with mlb.tv clickable linescore. Nice opposite field!
I'm sort of getting the impression that NESN has had "official urgings" (not to be confused with "urges") to sort of talk up Carl Crawford.
That was some impressive glove-on-glove action.
"Fuck yeah!" for Fuck Yeah!
Amazing FY!
Beckett = awesome.
I kind of feel like all the talk of "we need 2007 Beckett this year" in the preseason was expecting too much of him. I mean, he's had some good years and some difficult ones; why not expect something in between?
But the wish is coming true. He's just killing.
Hmmm, Heidi never mentions the prices of these classy ball park food items.
Doesn't seem to be playing on any of my channels. Anyone have an online feed link? ilemi.eu isn't working. Why aren't they putting this on MLB extra innings? There is no game on Fox until later...
How do you write a pickoff in a scorecard?
I put 1-3.
And in the bottom of Tek's box, I have 1*23* (which are the pitch numbers and the dots are throws to first). I put an x over the second dot.
"The wildness has hurt him"--nice analysis, Dave.....
FTS
red sox re-take the lead pretty much as soon as possible.
Flo hitting a TON to the opposite field/wall.!!!
CRAWFORD taking charge! 7-3!
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Ouch. Very unFYlike
ococ kcuf
Looks like I'm just in time for the ritual dirtying of the water. Make it happen, Paps.
get someone up out there, pls
Wow. Tek gets thrown out!
aw shit
Memories of JOS1.
This is bad.
Whooo!
well, we'll have a new pitcher now.
Oh, shit. Guess I'm a bad omen. Or maybe Papelbon knew he couldn't get the save, so he's going for the W...
looks like tito is saying fuck every 3rd word
"Randazzo took offense," says Joe. I guess!
Ejected? What for? I'm GDGDing it.
I gotta say, I can't imagine why Varitek and Pap have gone crazy on the homeplate ump this inning, other than letting the frustration of the blown save get the better of them.
This is bush league from the Sox.
This is crazy. I can see Tek getting it but Pap?
so randazzo decided to be a big man and walk out and start shit with bot. very good.
and bot is totally right. the strike he called on sweeney was called a ball about 6 times before in this inning.
ROBOT UMPS, pls!!! NOW!
That ump stepped out from the plate as pap's back was turned
Don't worry, I hear Jenks is a great pitcher. Situation is in the bag.
couldn't see if bot was talking, but the ump should not have tried to be the show.
really shit luck this inning, with that recent single and the E-FY. plus getting fucked royally by randazzo.
Salty can dong us home in the bottom half.
crowd sounds pumped and ready for a walk-off.
Pap was in the motion to begin pitching.
really? i recall he was staring in and then turned to go back on the rubber. wasn't in his motion, though
WOW - what a fuckin GUN from salty, kept the game tied.
That guy in the stands sure seemed proud to have caught the potentially inning-ending ball.
Good god--making it look very hard....
Holy crap. The last thing that could have gone wrong almost went wrong. Luckily, Salty kept his head.
I'm surprised Red Sox fans didn't cheer when Papelbon got ejected.
Alright, so Jenks holds the line. Now it's walkoff time.
BTW, can somebody describe what caused the ejections?
No, not motion but getting into his stance. The game was proceeding and the ump decided to become the star. Pure shit. We looked at it again.
In the silver lining department: number of comments has more than doubled since Bot crapped the bed.
I think some of them did cheer, but only as the standard instinctual reaction seeing someone on their team yell at the umps.
Agreed Maxwell. Somehow you've got to let that ball go
Tony Randazzo. When people remember your name it means you had a bad day.
Ofer, it's hard to explain all the bullshit that happened this inning. The highlights: Varitek argued with the ump about balls and strikes after the fact and was immediately tossed. Then Papelbon argued balls and strikes after having his pitch called a strike, and was tossed.
A lot of frustrating events. Hard to argue with the A's announcers, dickheads though they are, that Papelbon embarrassed himself.
ejections: ump squeezing bot on pitches throughout the inning. that got tek rung. then bot threw a pitch that randazzo had called a ball all inning, and he called it a strike. bot stared in, might have said something (his back was to the camera) and randazzo came out and yelled and pointed and tossed him.
I vote for some hypersaline dirty water.
man, that fy dp might have ended the game at 7-3.
Time for FY to atone.
Fuentes kind of throws "like a girl". He doesn't seem to put much shoulder into it.
Zen. Pap said a word or two (not sure what) as he was getting the ball back from salty. He turned to go to the mound and was getting into his stance, unaware that the ump had come out of the box and was jawing at him.
Yeah, Kathryn. On the replay, the A's announcers were saying (I think accurately) that Papelbon was protesting that his initial comment, which seemed like a sarcastic comment towards the ump was actually directed at Salty. But he really got angry when the ump did call him out and may have bumped him. No surprises if there are fines and a suspension for Bot.
It would have been nice if he had just stayed on the mound and watched the ump showing himself but that would have been true robotic.
Lowrie with the old nonchalant Statue of Liberty catch.
i saw only one replay, but i did not notice any ump bump. i feel like if papelbon did bump him, he would have fallen backwards dramatically like a basketball player taking a charge.
Bert could end this shit right here.
Again. If there is a fine for pap there sure as hell should be one for Randicko. But MLB doesn't operate that way. Somehow the umps can't even be interviewed.
with flo and bert out of the game, weakening the lineup, can we win soon? like now?
Ok. Get the slowest guy off the bases. But man can he hit!
Pinch running for Gonzalez might cost them later.
Can someone be taken off the DL in mid-game? If so, maybe Scutaro can pinch run for Youkilis or Ellsbury next time either one gets on base.
it's time for mr. walkoff...
So the Sox have no bench at all right now, eh? This could get interesting...
Well, at least he put up a good at bat.
Seriously though, what happens if someone gets hurt now? Do they ask one of the pitchers to play a position?
cameron is the dh. one onther move would be to put him in the field, then the pitchers would have to hit.
TB up 3-0, but Mariners threatening.
God damn.
WTF?? We were driving home, got home with Papelbon pitching the top of the ninth with the Sox up FOUR runs. We went into our house, had to empty the freezer which had been without power for two days, and I assumed the Sox had won. Just checked and saw THIS. WTF happened??
If this isn't the worst loss of the season, it will definitely be the most surreal.
I was waiting for Amy to get the news.
So...Tek and Pap were EJECTED? OMG.
Impossible not to see every play at the plate in light of the Posey injury now. Salty totally does a "bend like a reed in the wind" tag there. Very nice.
So who catches if salty breaks his leg?
I assume Pap did not give up the four runs?
He did actually, closer in a non save situation strikes again.
Oh yes he did, Amy.
Cameron is the backup, he caught in high school and college.
Bot in 9th, up 7-3:
Ellis - cbbsf 1B
Barton - sfbbbff BB
Powell - fc K
Crisp - E4 (possible game ending DP), 7-4
Pennington - fcfb 2B, 7-5
Jackson - 1B, 7-7
Sweeney - c (Bot ejected)
Boy, Amy's going to love the recap of the top of the ninth. :-)
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
I'd like to blame it all on Papelbon, but I guess he is not responsible for the error...
it's about 3x times worse than it looks. just a nightmare inning.
Cold, cold fire.
come on, salty, you're our final hope.
Wow, I thought that was gone!
Near Salty Dong! So near.
I thought it was gone. Oh my
let's go, lyndon.
Alive?
I cannot believe that they are blowing this game. Baseball is cruel.
C'mon. Infield hit. Something. Keep it alive.
Up to LBJ.
YES!!! Tied!
Fantastic.
LBJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tie game!!!!! LBJ.
Ellsbury is a really good player.
Too bad it went into the stands.
L must be whooping it up quietly at work with the radio!
Alive!
OK, I want a walkoff now!
Woo hoo. I wish it hadn't bounced into the seats
Time for FY to find that bat again.
laser show, pls
Or not. Who is left on the bench?
Another chance for some Fuck Yeah atonement.
They fear FY's redemptive powers.
and we got sutton instead of bert. fuck.
a measley single, anything out of the infield, will give ellsbury a shot. so, do it.
Sutton can be a hero.
Who is this guy? :)
there is no bench.
I will take a walk.
Win or lose, the Papelbon meltdown definitely made the game more entertaining than it would've been otherwise.
I don't always need "entertaining", though.
Shit. But we are alive!
Still alive, at least. Come on, Aceves.
Maybe we can have the best of both worlds. Extra entertainment with a win.
Sutton was overmatched, even at 93.
Amy, I hope things are okay at your house.
Silver lining: lackey being back let's us have a long reliever in here.
Thanks, Kat. All is well except for all the food we had to throw out. But given what happened around here, I am not complaining.
Score a RUN.
The ump for sure has the extra inning strike zone in effect now.
Bot might be suspended, he made contact with the ump when he was ejected.
game might overlap with the bruins after all
Yep Amy. It's always good to have perspective.
Devine is choking.
WTF Cameron
WTF? Why is he bunting with two strikes?
It's time for a walkoff.
I want a walkoff.
Good at bat, CC.
wear him down - and tee off
10+ pitch at bats always end well.
Arrgghh.
Or not.
Damn damn damn.
More than 12 innings = a second scorecard.
Aceves is done, he has a blister.
They have to win now because I have to leave. Please.
No fire from Drew at all.
Get out the big gold hat.
Back to LBJ. Do it NOW.
Time for that 2 out rally.
Time for a huge Fuck Yeah from FY.
Umm, Jerry, if Ellsbury steals, then they will walk FY to get to Sutton (again). So he may stay put.
Time for FY to redeem himself.
Okay, I am clueless.
Whatever, just win the fuckin game.
No wonder FY's OBP is so respectable.
Maybe J.D. Drew Sutton is on fire?
Again, IBB.
It feels like deja vu all over again.
Who IS this guy? Has he had a hit yet?
If Sutton doesn't win this, will the Sox start pulling random people from the crowd to pitch?
Truped by Don. Oh, well, got to head out. They will have to win it without me.
BABIP gods not in our favor
This game is agonizing.
It really probably wasn't a good move to replace Gonzalez with Sutton all those innings ago. Adrian wasn't even on second base at the time and I don't know if Sutton is known for being a big base-stealer.
I wonder if Wheeler will get up now..
It really probably wasn't a good move to replace Gonzalez with Sutton all those innings ago.
I never really like it, because a certain previous manager used to do it a lot with Ortiz, back when he (Tiz) was slugging up a storm, and we'd always miss his (Flo's) big bat an inning or two later.
Really good effort by Aceves, it seems. Don't let it be in vain. Win this now.
How about another walk-off, Carl?
So, will they pitch around Lowrie to get to Cold Fire?
Drew with 4 K in last 4 PA, time to make some contact..
Whew.
DON: IT TOOK AWHILE, BUT IT'S ALL GOOD!!!!!!!!!!
He drew some dirty water!
my god! dirty water!
Cuyahoyga river water, dirty and on fire!
I didn't notice Papelbon in the festivities. I'm guessing they have him sedated somewhere in the back.
A firey walk off
Woohoo! Belated dirty water is even sweeter!
Funny to see the reserved Drew have emotion thrust upon him.
Aceves deserves a lot of credit for that win.
Farnsworth trying to save TB's 3-2 lead.
So glad I got to hear the end of the game on the car radio! Go, Drew!
From the better late than never department:
Don't drink the water! It is EXTRA dirty!
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I listened to every pitch, but can't thread at work. Thank dog we won.
Now we've beaten the A's at home in a June 4th game. Piece o'cake.
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