Red Sox - 000 100 020 - 3 6 2 Mariners - 003 011 00x - 5 9 0Tim Wakefield came up short yet again in trying to get his 200th major league victory. He went the distance (8-9-5-2-4, 94), but a disastrous third inning -- three hits, two walks, two infield errors -- sealed his fate.
Kevin Youkilis hit a two-run dong in the eighth to close the gap, but the next four Boston batters were retired.
The umpiring in the early part of the game was beyond terrible. Alfonso Marquez (1B) called Dustin Pedroia out in the first inning even though first baseman Mike Carp's foot was clearly off the bag; in his defence, Marquez was out of position and could not see Carp's foot. In the third, Ed Hickox (2B) decided not to call the neighbourhood play at second on an attempted Boston double play; the Mariners went on to score two more runs in that inning. Home plate umpire Brian O'Nora made numerous bad calls in both directions, and for both teams. Several batters, including David Ortiz, were shooting daggers at Mark Ripperger (3B) after he ruled they had not checked their swings.
I am extremely sick of watching erratic and incompetent umpiring.
Happy 27th birthday, Clay Buchholz! ... Mark Loretta is 40. Mark Fidrych would have been 57.
August 14:
1919 - The Brooklyn Robins and Chicago Cubs split a doubleheader in only 2:17. The Cubs win the opener 2-0 in 1:10 and the Robins take the second game 1-0 in 1:07.Amusing headline from last night: "Greinke Pinch-Hits While Wearing Wrong Jersey"
1942 - The Yankees turn a record seven double plays (in nine innings) and beat the Philadelphia Athletics 11-2.
MFY (1.0 GB): Rays/Yankees at 1 PM.
Ellsbury, CF
ReplyDeletePedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Lowrie, SS
Crawford, LF
Saltalamacchia, C
McDonald, RF
Suzuki, RF
Gutierrez, CF
Ackley, 2B
Carp, 1B
Pena, DH
Olivo, C
Wells, LF
Wilson, SS
Seager, 3B
Fourth attempt at Win #200 for Wakefield.
Does Furbush have a sister? I'll bet that wasn't a good last name to grow up with.
TBR at MFY, rained out
ReplyDeleteBeavan and Furbush on the same staff?
ReplyDeletefoot off the base
ReplyDeletefy should be safe
ump (of course) out of position
Unless that guy's got reeeeally long spikes he was off the bag.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of annoying how the foot was *obviously* off the bag by inches, and Remy makes it sound like it's really hard to tell.
ReplyDeletemany announcers will not change their first impression/call no matter what the video shows. it is quite odd.
ReplyDeleteWake: OTT
ReplyDelete3-2 pitch they show close up of pitcher from behind plate and barely pan back in time to show hitter, who swings, and hits the ball....somewhere, we don't see, and Don doesn't tell us.
ReplyDeleteWake: FFS
ReplyDeleteArmando Galarraga: T-F/T-S/WTF
ReplyDeleteI think this is Kim's friend! She keeps telling me her friend who's now in Seattle always sends flowers to Don and Remy in the booth!
ReplyDelete3-2 pitch they show close up of pitcher from behind plate and barely pan back in time to show hitter, who swings, and hits the ball....somewhere, we don't see, and Don doesn't tell us.
ReplyDeletereminds me of listening to mfy games on the radio and being told the batter "fouls it off to the side" or "hit foul down the line".
i am sure there are many things to juggle during a game, but the producer/director has a finite number of cameras, and a general idea of where action will happen. don't worry about quick cuts to various players and the benches (that happens more in the post-season). show the action.
remy: "then i went out looking for some beef"
ReplyDeletei hope mrs. remy isn't listening.
T-F/T-S/WTF
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Hi.
ReplyDeleteCan I ask a question? When the runner is trying to steal second with < 2 out, is a dropped third swinging strike alive, or not? That is, can the batter run? (It just happened when Crawford stole second.)
I think not, but the rule is not very clear.
25, 26, blown call
ReplyDeleteunbelievable. they are showing a pre-taped heidi segment, then they show the SB and the ball sailing into CF -- AND THEY CUT BACK TO THE TAPE -- then come back with the runner at third.
ReplyDeleteNESN keeps topping themselves today, boy. Another one I'll have to YouTube. Cutting away mid-play to get back to Heidi's train report.
ReplyDeleteWell no one will care about this, other than the fact that it's yet another mess-up, but I talked to Kim, asked if her Seattle flower friend was "Jean-Louise Cash." She said, that's her, but Cash is her son's name. So Don was supposed to say "Mike, Jean-Louise, and Cash" as the people who gave them the bouquet, and who he "stole" the vase from, but said "Mike and Jean-Louise Cash." Funny how I got inside access to a mistake no one would have a chance of picking up on.
ReplyDeleteevery 50 or 100 calls, 2B umps have to froget about decades of the neighbourhood play. ... different rules at different times, don't you know?
ReplyDeleteOkay, now I should just boycotting this game. Wait a minute...what the fuck is Remy doing here? He sees clear evidence that he was out, says he thought there was no question, then sees replay and starts talking about how the foot never touched the bag, AS IF LOWRIE DID ANYTHING DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER SS ON ANY OTHER DP! Remy's just letting this go without even mentioning the phantom tag/neighborhood rule? It's not like he was five feet off the bag.
ReplyDeleteball 4 was tucked right inside the corner of the strike zone on gdgd.
ReplyDeleteALL of these umps are fucking up on a spectacular level today.
then sees replay and starts talking about how the foot never touched the bag
ReplyDeleteWhich is extra funny because:
1) he was a 2B who likely did the same thing hundreds and hundreds of times in his career; and
2) he had selective blindness to a foot clearly coming off the bag in the first inning.
and now don is slipping!!!
ReplyDeletesays a "3-0 lead" - not "advantage"
says furnbush had a long wait, but fails to give the exact # of minutes
Uggla: No hit today.
ReplyDeleteAnd 3) usually sticks to his original opinion
ReplyDeletewill furbush allow a big dong?
ReplyDeletesolid work by NESN on that steal/heidi segment.
ReplyDeletejedi salami pls.
jere: this reminds me of the seinfeld when jerry is talking about the mets' problems with the naked guy on the train to coney island. "but you gotta like their chances" ... "i love their chances"
ReplyDelete"but you want to have nesn do the game" ... "absolutely, no one else"
sac off furbush.
ReplyDeleteAnd on the crucial pitch, they go with behind-the-plate shot. Apparently they don't want us to see what's going on.
ReplyDeleteuseless.
ReplyDeletehahaha, too bad they didn't get to sit naked at the World Series that year.
ReplyDeletethis amused me
ReplyDeleteApparently they don't want us to see what's going on.
ReplyDeleteThey'll make damn sure you see the Eastern Bank logo or the Twisted Ice Tea banner.
Well why would they care if we can see what's going on? Its not like we're watching NESN to see the game or anything.
ReplyDeleteI, for one, want to see what my New England Ford Dealers have going on this week.
Crito: Info on uncaught third strikes (not "dropped" apparently):
ReplyDelete"On an uncaught third strike, with no runner on first base or with two outs, the batter immediately becomes a runner. The strike is called, but the umpire does not call the batter out. ... The batter may then attempt to reach first base, and must be tagged or thrown out. ... Note that if, at the time of the strike three pitch, first base is occupied with fewer than two outs, the batter is automatically out and cannot become a runner. This is to prevent the defense from deliberately dropping a third strike pitch and getting a double or triple play ..."
AND I TOTALLY HEART THE CHILL ZONE!!! 79 CENTS!!!
ReplyDeletejeez - which of these wakefield innings is not like the other?
ReplyDeleteI missed Crito's question before...
ReplyDeleteBut if he's specifically asking about when the runner is going, then, still, that doesn't matter. First base was still "occupied." The guy could be all the way around second by the time the pitch crosses the plate, but the batter is still automatically out.
Video of the Uggla streak ending. Or at least, one of the ABs from today, probably his best chance at a hit.
ReplyDeleteoh jee-zus! Again on what turns out to be the pitch where the batter hits the ball, they show a weird SIDE angle of contact being made! What the fuck is going on?? This is how they're attracting the young generation? Do wacky and interesting angles all you want on replays, but not on the actual hit.
ReplyDeletedon: "pena is 0-for-6 in his first game plus as a mariner"
ReplyDelete"first game plus" - better known in this case as "two"
Bright side: We have more hits than errors.
ReplyDeleteAllan and Jere: thanks.
ReplyDeleteRight, my question could have been better put this way: is first base "occupied" when the runner is trying to steal second, or not?
It's more logical that the base is occupied until the runner is out or reaches the next base safely. But, MLB rules are not always logical.
shit.
ReplyDeletecasper is haunting us.
I took a screenshot of that Lowrie phantom play.
ReplyDeleteSo, to clarify, a major league ump saw this on a double play and called it safe.
I'm thinking since Jed came off the bag so fast, the ump thought he left the area early. But Remy for some reason was so focused on whether he was physically making contact with the bag it never even came up.
remy informs us that pedroia has extended his hitting streak from 3 games to 4 games. woo-hoo!
ReplyDeleteThe Carbo thing!
ReplyDeleteI go to piss and it's SULTAN TIME!
ReplyDeleteHe didn't foul off the previous pitch, but took a horrible swing. Remy even mentioned it after the dong. Carbo-hydration!
ReplyDeletei have watched more enjoyable games than that one.
ReplyDeletethat's dicktacular. we lose a series to a 51-67 team
ReplyDeleteJust got home. Bah, clean.
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