Red Sox - 000 004 000 - 4 10 0 Mariners - 500 000 00x - 5 9 1In his first 22 starts this year, Josh Beckett had allowed a total of five first inning runs. Tonight, it took him six batters to give up five runs.
Ichiro Suzuki lined Beckett's first pitch to right field for a home run. Franklin Gutierrez singled and Dustin Ackley doubled, and Mike Carp singled them both in. After Wily Mo Pena flied to center, Casper Wells homered to left-center. Afterwards, Beckett (5-8-5-1-6, 99) pitched well, although he left the bases loaded in the fifth.
Boston scored four times off Felix Hernandez (7-9-4-2-2, 107) in the sixth. Marco Scutaro tripled and Jacoby Ellsbury homered (#20). With one out, Adrian Gonzalez bunted for a hit and Dustin Pedroia homered (#16) to right-center. David Ortiz and Mike Aviles singled, but Jason Varitek stranded them with a line out to second.
The Red Sox had a run taken off the board when a call at the plate in the fourth was reversed. With Ellsbury on third and Carl Crawford on second, Pedroia flew to right for the second out of the inning. Ichiro fired a strong throw home and catcher Josh Bard had time to tag Ellsbury, who barreled into him and knocked him flat on his back (Ellsbury's left knee drilled Bard in the chin). Home plate umpire Mark Ripperger appeared to think Bard dropped the ball for a split-second onto his chest protector before grabbing it again, and he called Ellsbury safe. Even if Bard had fully dropped the ball, he appeared to have possession long enough for the tag. After a discussion among the umpires, the call was reversed, and the play stood as an inning-ending DP. Terry Francona came out, argued, and was ejected.
David Ortiz is raking once again. After going 7-for-11 with two home runs in Minnesota, he clocked a two-run dong last night. In his last five games, Flo is 11-for-20 (.550/.609/1.100/1.709).
GMS AVG OBP SLG OPS June 21 to July 17 20 .161 .288 .339 .627 July 22 to August 12 21 .317 .404 .573 .977Gordon Edes notes that, despite the claims of some media, Ortiz has actually "resisted the urge to make his future a focal point of this Red Sox summer". And when he has made "an occasional muttered aside", it has been "leavened with humor instead of anger".
Red Sox Records:
Lead after 6: 51-3 Lead after 7: 61-2 Lead after 8: 62-0 Tied after 6: 16-9 Tied after 7: 10-3 Tied after 8: 9-1 Trailing after 6: 6-32 Trailing after 7: 2-39 Trailing after 8: 2-42W-L Has Its Flaws, But ...: On Monday, Alfredo Aceves improved his lifetime record to 22-2. He is the first pitcher in baseball history to win 22 of his first 24 decisions. Among pitchers with at least 14 decisions, Aceves's winning percentage of .917 is the best in baseball history (since 1876).
MFY (2.0 GB): Rays/Yankees at 4 PM.
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The last 20 HRs hit by the Giants have been solo shots. That sets a new record (the 1914 Phillies hit 19). (The Giants' last non-solo dong was on July 6.)
Dan Uggla's hit streak is at 32 games.
TBR - 000 00
MFY - 020 01
Dumbo: 2-run single in 2nd
Granderson: Dong #33 in 5th (ny still batting)
TBR - 000 002 000 - 2 5 0
MFY - 020 052 00x - 9 15 1
Ellsbury, CF
Crawford, LF
Gonzalez, 1B
Pedroia, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Reddick, RF
Aviles, 3B
Varitek, C
Scutaro, SS
Suzuki, RF
Gutierrez, CF
Ackley, 2B
Carp, 1B
Pena, DH
Wells, LF
Bard, C
Rodriguez, 3B
Wilson, SS
Beckett - 1.85 ERA in last five starts.
Papelbon's last 12 appearances:
12 innings
3 hits
0 runs
0 walks
13 strikeouts
Uggla = 33!
Taking the bus home tonight, so I will be leaving the thread at midnight. If the game goes as long as last night's, however, I might see the last out or three.
Uggla = single, HR, HBP
Pena = Wily Mo (Super Genius!)
remy: ichiro "can go home run after home when he wants to"
don: "he can do it when he wants to, but mainly a singles hitter over the years"
with seattle's offense so shitty -- historically shitty, like pre-DH shitty -- why would ichiro not help out by putting some runs on the board "when he wants to"?
mariners need a triple for the cycle in the first 4 batters.
Wow, this is awful.
I'm at the game. This blows...
casper with a not-so-friendly dong
All the Sox have to do is put up a five-spot on Felix and we can still get the pitcher's duel we were promised.
1. have beckett get his head out of his ass
2. score runs and/or run up felix's pc
3. win
Beckett being Lackey??
If this were Lackey, it would be enough to garner a second Amica Pitcher of the Week award.
I'm on gdgd. WTH is going on?
FELIX HERNANDEZ IS PITCHING A PERFECT GAME!!!
Someone on the Sox staff messsed up and had the lineup study video of Larry Bernandez to prepare for this game.
Okay, the Sox *have* to score at least a run here.
BOBBLE!
Okay, the Sox *have* to score at least a couple runs here.
"soft" ellsbury runs bard over.
looks out to me.
reversed call?
now he's out?
tito pissed.
tito tossed - and he tosses ump.
The Sox might not get this run, but at least they're keeping up nicely with the "maim a Mariner per game" quota.
nice overhead shot as nesn goes to commercial - clearly out. fuckin nice throw by itchy
Before this game is over someone on the Sox team has to find a way to accidentally suplex Ichiro.
Come on, Ortiz! Guy on 2nd and 3rd with two outs, no one I'd rather have at the plate. Get these runs home!
pena can be retired, josh. do it.
Are you fucking kidding me? I just get home from a crazy night, where I lost my glasses at a concert and walked around blind and fortunately Kim hadn't drank enough so that she could drive us home, and we're finally home and I found back-up glasses so everything is back to calm and normal... and then WILY MO PENA is playing in this game??? I will never forget this night.
(Ah, but he strikes out. We're back to normal again.)
I'm out of here. I'll put through whatever comments are piled up when I get home.
(P.S. to Sox: I don't mind if I miss a 6+-run rally. Really! I'll watched the archived innings tomorrow.)
Hey, good start to the inning.
Wow. That's the only opposite field homer I can ever remember seeing Pedroia hit.
Sox trying to make the night even more unforgettable, "quickly" it's 5-4. Adrian's bunt that went almost to the outfield a key play among long hits.
Looks like they're going to oblige.
UNSTOPPABLE!
This is why I always have an ESPN tab open even if I have stopped watching the game.
UNSTOPPABLE? Laura, shut up.
Base hit bunt time?
I get the impression that Crawford completely guesses at the plate. He just took two very close pitches, but then swung at the fences at a pitch in the dirt.
fuckety
I don't think it's worked out one time this year, having McDonald as a pinch runner.
Not good. We've got Aviles and Varitek coming up in the 9th.
home - and ready for more runs in the 9th
can tek shock the united states of america?
"This is why I always have an ESPN tab open even if I have stopped watching the game."
It's why I don't turn it off in the first place.
just got in for the 9th. listened to 6-8 on the drive home.
fucking DPs. i was also unimpressed by the decision to send mcdonald.
mariners radio was garbage too.
i need to see the replay of the tiz foul in the 8th to see how close to being a HR it really was, as they seemed pretty revved up about it.
apparently the crawford double play was "4 unassisted" - sounds incredibly rare and impossible for a GIDP. they didn't tell me if he lined out or grounded out though, so i need to look that up too.
when discussing the ichiro leadoff dong, they said he hit the first pitch of the game for a home run, only his second HR of the year but 34th time he has "done it" ... done what? hit a leadoff dong? hit the first pitch of the game for a dong? had two HR in a season?
B.R. said...
UNSTOPPABLE? Laura, shut up.
August 14, 2011 12:19 AM
There's our troll, ladies and gentlemen. Hanging out at JoS at 12:19 AM on a Saturday night!
How does it happen that a Yankee fan (who enjoys the nightlife and claims to be 27) finds himself at a Red Sox blog well after midnight, making such barbed insults? One of three things must have happened:
1. Our man about town was actually home all alone on a Saturday night, up late with only the scattered postings of a few Red Sox fans to entertain him. Was he following along all night? (Even *I* didn't follow the thread for the entire game.)
2. He was out on the town, but had come home a early and immediately had to check in with JoS to see what was going on.
3. The party boy was out on the town, but could not sublimate his JoS addiction into wanton hedonism for the entire evening and interrupted his festivities to checked in on JoS on whatever device he carries with him.
None of these scenarios is very flattering to our visiting loser.
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