June 21, 2011

G73: Padres 5, Red Sox 4

Padres  - 022 000 100 - 5  7  1
Red Sox - 101 101 000 - 4 13  0
Boston collected 13 hits, including two doubles and a triple, but missed many opportunities to score, going 3-for-13 with RATS and leaving 11 men on base.

The Red Sox, who had scored 10+ runs in five of their last nine games, lost for only the third time in 17 games. The Yankees/Reds game was rained out, so Boston now has a one-game lead in the East.

After getting two outs in the second inning, Aceves (5-4-4-6-4, 99) walked five straight hitters, forcing in two runs. At one point in the inning, the Padres saw 33 consecutive pitches without putting the ball in play. (The MLB record for most consecutive walks is seven, by Dolly Gray of the Senators, in the first game of a doubleheader against the White Sox, on August 28, 1909.)

Aceves also retired the first two batters in the third, but then gave up a double, single, stolen base, double to put the Sox in a 4-1 hole.

Boston chipped away. Josh Reddick tripled to start the third and scored on Jacoby Ellsbury's single. In the fourth, Jarrod Saltalamacchia walked, took second on Marco Scutaro's single, and scored on Reddick's double. Adrian Gonzalez knocked in Scutaro in the sixth to tie the game.

Dan Wheeler relieved Aceves and pitched a perfect sixth, but loaded the bases with one out in the seventh. Daniel Bard came in and got Anthony Rizzo to hit a weak infield grounder, but the tie-breaking run scored.

The Red Sox came up empty many times. Down by two runs in the third, Gonzalez batted with runners on first and second and no outs. He hit into an unusual 1-5-6 double play, reaching safely as the two lead runners were put out. After Kevin Youkilis singled, David Ortiz grounded out.

In the fourth, after Reddick's double had cut San Diego's lead to 4-3, Ellsbury batted with runners on second and third and one out. He struck out, Dustin Pedroia walked to load the bases, and Gonzalez struck out looking.

Salty batted with a man on third with two outs in the fifth and struck out. Also in that inning, Ortiz stole second base, his first steal since August 3, 2008, and the 11th of his career. Padres starter Latos (5.2-10-4-4-8, 120) was completely ignoring him, so Tiz took off. When Latos went into his windup, Ortiz slowed down, then turned it on again, and slid safely into second.

Youkilis ended the sixth with runners on first and second. In the seventh, J.D. Drew walked with one out and Salty singled, but Scutaro flied out and Reddick grounded out. In the bottom of the ninth, down by one run, Youkilis singled and Drew Sutton pinch-ran. With a chance to win the game, Ortiz hit into a 5-6-3 DP. And Drew struck out.

The announced attendance was 38,422, the largest regular season crowd since World War II. The previous record was 38,347 (May 21, 2009, against the Blue Jays).
Example
Mat Latos / Alfredo Aceves

Terry Francona, on Josh Beckett's "intestinal turmoil":
[H]e hasn't felt good the last couple of days. He was going to go home and see if he felt better. The more we were thinking about it, before he got out of here, we said, "You know what? This is silly. If you're that sick, you're kind of worried about pitching tomorrow." I'm not sure how good he'd feel anyway. So we stayed away from Aceves [on Monday].
Latos set a major-league record last year of 15 consecutive starts of at least five innings pitched with two runs or fewer allowed. Mike Scott (1986) and Greg Maddux (1993-94) had streaks of 14 starts; Maddux also had a 13-game streak (1995). (Pedro Martinez's longest streak was 10 games.)

I would have thought a Deadball Era pitcher had a string of more than 15 such starts -- the BRef data goes back only to the start of the 1919 season -- but this ESPN sidebar says Latos, Scott, and Maddux are the top three on the list since 1900.

In 2011, Latos has received very poor run support; the Padres have scored three or fewer runs in nine of his 13 starts.

AL East: Yankees/Reds at 7 PM; Rays/Brewers at 8 PM.

141 comments:

allan said...

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

allan said...

ESPN baseball analyst John Kruk had no idea teams play 18 interleague games per year:

"I didn't realize it was that many, to be honest with you, because they play some and then they go back to American League teams are playing American League teams. Then, two or three weeks later, you go back to interleague. So I didn't realize it was 18 games."

allan said...

Adrian Gonzalez: "I touched Chase’s ear, which is important. He doesn’t like his ear being touched. I told him if he gets on base, I’m definitely touching his ear every time."

Benjamin said...

He was just checking Chase's ear for bananas.

laura k said...

He doesn’t like his ear being touched.

Last year it was Beltre's head.

laura k said...

The theme song

laura k said...

Bananas, ha ha ha, great link!

laura k said...

Bartlett on the fruit & food teams, Headly on the body parts team.

allan said...

got his ear!!

allan said...

and he actually made a step or two beltre-like lunge for AG. it wa son an infield shot, but i don't think anyone at nesn saw it.

laura k said...

Remy's pronounciation of Guzman is amusing.

Jere said...

Up on the green, baby

laura k said...

yoooooooook

Benjamin said...

Bertrand Rush'll.

Jere said...

Bartlett also on the all-"streets Jere has lived on" team. I'm still waiting for him to change his number to 95....apartment 3.

Jere said...

That killed me that Papi paused before running...and sure enough, it cost him the bag. I know he just didn't notice at first, but uggggghghhhhh

laura k said...

A streets-I've-lived-on team, that would be interesting! I'll have to look up a few of mine.

Jere said...

Sebastian East Ninety-Third Street is so damn close to being on my Streets Team.

laura k said...

Ha! I guess he's on a lot of people's places-I've-lived teams.

laura k said...

Some of our streets might have a chance: Bennett, Bogardus, Garfield.

Jere said...

Fenway prepping for a mock cheer

Jere said...

ooh we've got time to wonder how Don will describe the mock cheer

laura k said...

Mock cheer as predicted

Jere said...

just basic style description from Don

allan said...

"7th mock cheer in the last 18 interleague games for the red sox"

laura k said...

ugh, not pretty

Maxwell Horse said...

The magic is gone. Aceves needs to throw it underhand like the kid from Rookie of the Year.

allan said...

not having a faucet of sweat running off the bill of his cap is throwing off his rhythm

allan said...

holy shit - that was WILD

laura k said...

This is like yesterday in reverse.

laura k said...

...waiting 22 minutes...

allan said...

his offense has been busy scoring 2 runs - wtf don???

Maxwell Horse said...

Aceves remains surprisingly torrential-sweat free. You'd think in this situation they'd be unrolling the tarp about now.

allan said...

33 straight pitches in that inning during which a fair ball was not hit. but no strikeouts!

Jere said...

"When five men amble in a row, be grateful when only two come home." --Confucius

allan said...

he had a small lather at the end of the inning - there is hope

laura k said...

Tarp :)

Maybe Yook and Aceves can share sweat secrets.

Pokerwolf said...

"his offense has been busy scoring 2 runs - wtf don???"

Two runs *is* busy for the Padres offense this year, Allan. Don is right. ;)

allan said...

yes, but they just stood there.

laura k said...

So it turns out Hudson's name is not spelled Orlandooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Huh.

[Body-of-water team]

Jere said...

Ha, I always think of that when I hear Hudson's name.

Jere said...

rats

laura k said...

Any other pitchers we can use? Please?

Jere said...

Again, NESN obsessed with showing runner touching home so we miss the play at second. As soon as we saw the guy trotting home while looking back, we knew he was in, now switch to what else is going on.

allan said...

But sort of half-seeing him pick up the stray bat (we only see above his knees) is much more important than possibly throwing the runner out at second.

Jere said...

This is getting offensive--now there's an official NESN commercial that assumes we've all been watching hockey and have missed the entire baseball season up until now.

Jere said...

Triple. Let's go for the consecutive triples record!

Maxwell Horse said...

I want a haggard, red-nosed Beckett to come running to the mound in his pajamas and shove Aceves to the ground and pick up the ball. When Francona comes to take him away, I want Beckett to cold cock him. The umps will be so overwhelmed by the awesomeness they won't do anything.

laura k said...

This is the tripliest year ever! I love it. Someone HAS GOT to hit for the cycle!

laura k said...

So that ad is not directed at you. Lots of people probably fall into that category.

Pokerwolf said...

ELLLLLLLLLLL

BEEEEEEE

JAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!

laura k said...

Oh man would that be fun! Especially the pajamas.

(That's my boy!)

Pokerwolf said...

Man, I really hope this isn't one of those "WTF just happened?!" sort of games, but it looks like we're heading there.

laura k said...

Even Aceves can't stop them. Unstoppable.

Jere said...

" but it looks like we're heading there."

A two-run game at Fenway with 6 innings left? I don't think any of us know what's going to happen but I'm certainly not turning this one off.

RedSoxDiehard said...

Ooh, can't wait to see what kind of pajamas Beckett wears!

Also, "tripliest" is an awesome word.

allan said...

for one thing, we have not yet batted around - which happens every night

allan said...

MFY @ CIN, ppd.

Pokerwolf said...

I didn't say I was going to turn off the game, Jere. I said that it's going to be a game where I say that phrase a lot.

There's a big difference. ;)

laura k said...

I admit I was trying to figure out what a "WTF game" meant. Now I know. :)

Jere said...

Not accusing of off-turning, just using that phrase to imply it ain't over.

Jere said...

Or I should say, to imply that the past doesn't equal the future.

laura k said...

Reddouble!

Jere said...

i predict a double on a liner to the Monster that just misses getting outta here

laura k said...

That's more like it. And here comes Evil.

laura k said...

Or not.

SoSock said...

Damn - squanderage

Tom DePlonty said...

Hey all. Aceves walked five in a row? Glad I missed that...

laura k said...

yook = on fire tonight

laura k said...

Wheels Ortiz!

Jere said...

wheels

RedSoxDiehard said...

Stolen base for Papi!!!

Tom DePlonty said...

You're kidding!

laura k said...

Don on Papi: Nothing to see here, I'm invisible.

laura k said...

Damn, after all Papi did to get to 3rd.

SoSock said...

:(
Squandered again.
Sometimes I think we should be given the option to DH for the catcher instead of the pitcher.....
Of course, we have yet to reach the magic 7th!

RedSoxDiehard said...

Ball in the brew!

RedSoxDiehard said...

Reddive!

laura k said...

I gotta get away from the computer screen.

Don't forget, drink anything but the water. I think it will be dirty.

Maxwell Horse said...

Reddick looks like a cross between David Koresh and Richard Dean Anderson.

SoSock said...

LBJ!

Up to 9 hits now and still no more runs. An all-out LOBotomy......

Maybe the e-5 will help

Maxwell Horse said...

How come whenever Ellsbury steals the catcher on the other team makes the perfect throw?

SoSock said...

damn, no breaks

Maxwell Horse said...

Pedroia will make the hurting stop.

Jere said...

MacGyver would have survived Waco

Maxwell Horse said...

I wish Reddick still wore the glasses. Then the Koresh/MacGuyver comparison would be even better.

Pokerwolf said...

EVIL TIE GAME!!!

Jere said...

Crimson Hose 4, Men of the Cloth 4

RedSoxDiehard said...

Hang in there, the boys are coming! I thought we'd have to wait until the 7th, but I'll settle for the 6th.

Pokerwolf said...

The 7th is where we take the lead, RSDH. Doesn't necessarily mean we can't tie the game before then. ;)

allan said...

9 innings is too many innings to keep us down. The bats'll explode sooner or later. ... Gotta cut games down to 3 innings to stop us.

allan said...

bard up

Jere said...

shied away at last millisecond

Maxwell Horse said...

Wheeler should not be in the seventh inning of a 4-4 game.

allan said...

rib-conscious coward?

allan said...

this is closer/bard time, tito,.

RedSoxDiehard said...

I'd like to request a 9-run 7th tonight. We've had a 7-run inning, an 8-run inning, and a 10-run inning lately iirc.

Jere said...

So they are willing to go to Bard with an out in the 7th...but....not with an out in the 7th?

Pokerwolf said...

Looks like LBJ lost track of the fence.

allan said...

K, pls

allan said...

or
dp, pls

Jere said...

last replay shows toe scraped bag, Remy remains silent

allan said...

dear flo: tie this shit.

RedSoxDiehard said...

9 runs, pls.

Lord Lynch said...

Evening all. Stateside Lord Lynch here!

allan said...

LL! You're going to a game in PIT, right?

Lord Lynch said...

Sunday. If we can find anywhere reasonably priced to stay!

Jere said...

salta la mock yer

Lord Lynch said...

In Reddick We Rely

Jere said...

dong here, then meaningless late single with two outs in the 8th with a 5 run lead.

Lord Lynch said...

In Reddick We Regret

Maxwell Horse said...

Seriously, why was Wheeler pitching in the seventh?

Jere said...

sweet ca-rally time

SoSock said...

Hey. WTF? WE are supposed to be the 7th inning team, not them. Damn.

At least Bard held it together there with 2nd & 3rd.

Btw - have I mentioned lately, oh, never mind......:-)

allan said...

top of the order

set and clear the table.

Lord Lynch said...

Looks like Miller on Sunday. How did he pitch last night. Couldn't watch as I was on the flight over....

allan said...

he was decent thru five - then a couple of hits in the 6th and then hudson hit an o-dong.

allan said...

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

allan said...

we need a dong for a quick tie.

Jere said...

whatta catch. Rizzo likes the Triangle.

andy said...

Point of interest. The sox can score a maximum of 5 runs in the coming half inning.

SoSock said...

Papelbot OTT

SoSock said...

Now, some runs plz.......

Just two, will do

andy said...

For this team that is quite a limitation.

allan said...

ring heath's bell, pls

Jere said...

all candy bar team

allan said...

along with Snickers McGee

allan said...

yook 4-for-5!

Jere said...

And Butterfingers Knoblauch?

allan said...

walkoff shot for flo.

SoSock said...

It's a start.....;>

Maxwell Horse said...

Sutton with the pinch-running again. Is he considered fast? Didn't something like this happen a few weeks ago?

allan said...

and the "$100,000 (bar) Infield"

allan said...

remy: "back-to-fat fastballs"

Jere said...

Jack/Mark/Tony Clark

allan said...

drew dong, pls

SoSock said...

Ouch

Maxwell Horse said...

Thank God that speed demon Sutton was out there to avoid the double play.

allan said...

All Sox Series vs Padres:

WLW
WLW
WLW
WL?

SoSock said...

Damn, too much squanderage.

6 more hits, but no partial credit for them

SoSock said...

Interesting stat there Allan. Hope that sequence is held up by the time I get home from work tomorrow. It is a day game, iirc?