Red Sox - 023 100 102 - 9 9 2 Rays - 300 010 001 - 5 13 2After Lackey's hard-luck first inning, extended by some poor fielding by Marco Scutaro, the big-chinned, long-suffering righty held the line (5.2-10-4-1-7, 107). He never had a 1-2-3 inning -- in fact, Tampa got a runner to second base in every one of his innings -- but he kept the Rays off the board while Shields did his own Lackey impersonation (6-6-6-3-8, 106).
After barely fouling off a 3-2 pitch in the second, Josh Reddick hit a two-run home run (Bernie Carbo-style). Boston scored three times in the third, taking a 5-2 lead, before Shields recorded an out, as Adrian Gonzalez walked, Kevin Youkilis singled, and David Ortiz and J.D. Drew both doubled.
Shields threw 71 pitches in the first three innings, and only 35 over the next three frames.
Jacoby Ellsbury homered on Shields's first pitch in the fourth. Dustin Pedroia homered off Jose Cruz in the seventh, extending his on-base streak to 26 games. For both LBJ and FY, it was their 13th homers of the year.
In his last four starts, Lackey has gone from shitty to good to very shitty to very good. That's not a promising trend when thinking about today's start, but fortunately, it has zero predictive value. Still, Lackey may follow along and go for "very, very shitty".
Since Shields's June 14 shutout over the Red Sox -- the first of three consecutive complete games -- he has a 1.31 ERA in six starts. Last Sunday, he allowed one unearned run to the Yankees in eight innings.
Adrian Gonzalez is having a super-fantastic year at the plate, but Jose Bautista is still blowing him out of the water. Evil Bert has a 14-point edge on Joey Bats in average (.350 vs .336), but he trails Bautista by 60 points in OBP (.410 vs .470) and 116 points in slugging (.585 vs .701). Bautista is the only MLB batter with an OPS over 1.001, and he's at 1.171!
Dustin Pedroia has a 13-game hitting streak and has reached base safely (hit or walk) in 25 straight games. ... The Mariners have an MLB-worst team batting average of .222. ... Houston's Jeff Karstens shut out the Astros last night (9-5-0-0-2) on only 83 pitches.
AL East: Yankees/Blue Jays at 1 PM.
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Ellsbury, CF
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Drew, RF
Saltalamacchia, C
Reddick, LF
Scutaro, SS
Damon, DH
Zobrist, 2B
Kotchman, 1B
Longoria, 3B
Joyce, RF
Upton, CF
Fuld, LF
Shoppach, C
Brignac, SS
Bobby Jenks to DL
Randy Williams UP
Tommy Hottovy DFA
MFY - 02
TOR - 1
Sabathia/Romero
ERA
Lackey 6.84
Shields 2.33
Nearly three times as high!
Bot 9th: Jays down 4-1, get a one-out single off Fruitbat. Ya never know ...
Another soft single! 2 on!
Tying run at the plate - the mighty Aaron Hill!
Hill: bfcffff K.
Two outs, Snider up
Sadly, there is no way Snider - with his laughable little schoolboy moustache - can get over on Rivera.
Snider: ccbfbf 6-3.
Fin.
MFY - 021 100 000 - 4 10 1
TOR - 100 000 000 - 1 5 2
CC: 8-3-1-3-8, 110
FB: 28 pitches
McCarver: "With a ball like that, Ellsbury is running on contact."
Well, he was the batter, so we assume he's running right away.
Stockton and McMoron. I should mute right now.
Is there any way to watch this game if Fox is showing NYM vs. Phillies?? Thanks to MLB.tv for blacking it out nationally... unbearable.
You Know Who, re Gonzlez: "He's been a hitting monster playing in the same park as the Green Monster."
I wish I had been collecting these for years.
Hey Allan (and anyone else who is here). There is a lot going on around here and I'll only be around for a few innings today. I'm very much looking forward to a time when I can see/hear an entire game again.
Stupid FOX. I've got Mets/Phillies here so it's WEEI for me. At least that means no McCarver.
You Know Who, re Gonzlez: "He's been a hitting monster playing in the same park as the Green Monster."
I can even hear his inflection on this one.
Thanks to MLB.tv for blacking it out nationally.
I was told by MLB that Canada and the US are the same when it comes to Fox-type blackouts. And yet I am watching the game.
It would cause Laura to murder me (probably), but I'd love to be able to really imitate McC's cadences.
(Also doing Sutcliffe's earnest insistence would be fun, but I would be dead for sure with Sut ...)
Allan, that means that your FOX affiliate has chosen to show this game. Our FOX affiliate is showing Mets/Phillies. FOX has rights to four afternoon games today and the affiliate chooses which one to show. The crazy part is that you can't get the ones they don't choose to show in your area anywhere else. So, there are three games everywhere that people can't see.
Radio says it Johnny Damon bobblehead night and that he has a mohawk!
I'm at work with MLBTV, so there is only link to click: "FOX".
I don't think I have an affiliate.
Well, I know that's how it works on TV.
But I am really confused about MLB.tv. When I go to MLB.tv I get the schedule of games, with four listed as FOX. When I click on any of those links, I get national blackout restrictions. How are you seeing FOX games on MLB.tv? Maybe that is a Canada/USA difference, but I don't think so. I remember Jonny changed settings and had them thinking we were in London one time so as to see a FOX game.
Tough inning, Scutaro.
Okay, time to take Scutaro out. Radio says he is hurt.
Is Scutaro drunk?
i sense a lackey meltdown a-comin'.
I can't imagine the looks Lackey has given Scutaro this inning.
Crap, maybe this is the very, very shitty Lackey today.
I'm glad I never posted my prediction for how I thought Lackey would do this game. I still claim 100% accuracy rate on my psychic abilities.
"I can't imagine the looks Lackey has given Scutaro this inning."
Imagine the climax of Superman 2 when General Zod tries to make the tanker truck blow up using his laser vision.
I missed all of that. ... But it still counts, I suppose.
I did see Lackey going to cover first or something and then the play was not made and he raised both hands and arms to the heavens (or roof, in this case), crying out why was he a modern-day Job?
Reddick soothes some of my misery.
FUCK YEAH MOTHERFUCKERS
REDDICK!!!!!! It is time to play him a little more, how 'bout it?
he thought he k'd on the previous pitch, but ump called a foul. then ... boom!
okay, 3-2, we got a game again ... tito should go to the pen to hold the rays here, though ...
how about launching another one?
... i was talking to you, fy.
Buy guys. If Lackey continues pitching, it's probably good that I can't stick around for the rest of this one.
Have a nice rest of the day, Kathryn. Maybe you'll come back to find some pleasant news of a Sox comeback.
ONE LARGE FUCKIN' FATHER, PLS!!!
Shoulda gone quad on that. We're gonna need more runs.
Even though the outfielder sort of fell trying to get that ball, they credit Ortiz with a double.
FIERY CORPSE!!!
despite the double, i hope (expect) reddick will be in rf every night when crawford returns next week.
PC
Small Game: 17-24-30 = 70
Blamethrower: 27-23 = 50
McCarver: "We saw young Randy Williams warming for the Sox."
Williams is 35.
Yeah, I appreciate the walking dead coming up big right then, but I almost wish he would just stay dead.
Let's leave no doubt about who our RF is.
Lackey says fuck you and your stolen base.
WTF was McCarver saying about Upton? He's really a .300 hitter but has been in a four-year slump?
Ellsbury grabs Shields by his ears and shakes him around.
aka DONG!
023 10
sox have a chance at a nice palindrome.
Lackey suddenly rockin' and rollin'.
oh brother.
get your head out of yr ass, lackey, and finish this inning.
nice foot on the bag, shields!!!!
Just checking in...yay!
Blamethrower, ha. Have you used that one before?
A few times. It is not original. I think a Maine newspaper guy started using it and I saw it at SoSH. Not totally sold on it, myself.
FY, of course.
You know what we are, don't you?
Fuck yeah!!!
GDGD says in play, run(s) with the lead off. FY!!!!!
Well, if nobody knows, I will tell you. We are...
UNSTOPPABLE!
Well, if nobody knows, I will tell you. We are...
UNSTOPPABLE!
If Lackey can't stop us, no one can ...
If that's true, let's call up Gagne!
If Lackey can't stop us, no one can ...
Essackly.
1.5
This Seinfeld ep my Fox station is showing is like the post-game cig.
"you coulda done a LOT better than him...."
Classic Comedy Related: We got the Complete Get Smart box last week and started watching them during the break!
Nice.
I just finished reading Game Six so it's funny you compared Reddick to Carbo--worst swing followed by the best. *crack*
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