Boston pounded old friend Eduardo Rodriguez (3.2-5-7-3-5, 72) for six runs in the fourth inning on Wednesday and held off the Tigers 9-7.
Jackie Bradley doubled twice and drove in three runs (all with two outs). Kiké Hernández doubled and homered, drove in two and scored two. Trevor Story and Bobby Dalbec had two hits each and J.D. Martinez had a single, three walks, and two runs scored.
Nathan Eovaldi (5-4-2-1-6, 101) allowed two solo dongs. Austin Davis and Kutter Crawford nearly shit the bed in the seventh and eighth, but Jake Diekman and Hansel Robles held the line.
After losing the first two games of the season, the Red Sox have won three of four and will play their home opener on Friday afternoon against the Twins at 2 PM ET.
Giants coach Alyssa Nakken made history last night when she became the first woman to coach on-the-field during a regular season major league game.
Nakken, 31, took over for first base coach Antoan Richardson in the third inning, after he was ejected. Nakken's usual responsibilities are baserunning and outfield defense. She was the first woman to coach in the major leagues when she was first hired by the Giants in January 2020.
Nakken got her chance because, following the Padres' squawking about some "Unwritten Rules" bullshit, crew chief Greg Gibson fucked up and ejected Richardson when, if anyone should have been tossed, it was Padres coach Mike Shildt.
After scoring six runs in the first inning, the Giants had added four more in the second and then Steven Duggar stole second with his team up 10-1. (Later, in the bottom of the sixth, with the Giants still up by nine, Mauricio Dubón dropped a bunt single down the third-base line.)
The Padres were annoyed at the stolen base and that might have been what Shildt was jabbering about, since Richardson was coaching first when Duggar took off.
Richardson (who is black) explained that Shildt (who is white) approached the Giants' dugout. Words were exchanged (as they say) and then Shildt addressed the Giants' dugout: "You need to control that motherfucker." Richardson took exception:
I went to the top step and said, "Excuse me?" because I couldn't believe what I heard. . . . Gibson, the crew chief, decided to toss me from the game. . . . [Shildt's] words were disproportionately unwarranted and reeked undertones of racism when he referred to me as "that motherfucker", as if I was to be controlled or a piece of property . . . I think it's just really important we understand what happened tonight. . . . [What's] equally disappointing is that me being tossed by that umpire empowers this coach to continue to have conversations like that with people like me . . . The umpire said to me that I was instigating. . . . I asked: "This person called me a motherfucker, and I'm being an instigator?"
Shildt apologized to Richardson today, Richardson said he did not believe "Shildty" was racist, and both two men spoke to the press. (Did Shildty refer to "Richardsony"? I do not know, and I'd rather not know (in case he did).)
After the sixth-inning bunt, Padres first baseman Eric Hosmer told Dubón:
You've been playing professional ball for a good amount of time obviously if you're at this level. You've got to be smarter than that.
To which I say: "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
The World's Strongest Jew was far more diplomatic:
I fully support both of those decisions. Our goal is not exclusively to win one game in a series. It's to try to win the entire series. Sometimes, that means trying to get a little deeper into the opposition's 'pen. . . . It's not to be disrespectful in any way. It's because we feel very cool and strategic. . . . When I say cool, I mean calm. . . . We just want to score as many runs as possible, force the other pitcher to throw as many pitches as possible. If other clubs decide that they want to do the same thing to us, we're not going to have any issue with it.
The Padres are not only completely wrong, but they are hypocrites, as well.
In 2019, Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a grand slam on a 3-0 pitch with San Diego up by seven runs in Texas. When the Lone Star State losers got all pissy, the Padres defended Tatis.
Phil Castellini: "Where are you gonna go? Sell the team to who? What would you do with this team to...compete more in the current economic system? It would be to pick it up and move it somewhere else. So be careful what you ask for."
— Matt Wilkes (@_MattWilkes) April 12, 2022
Nothing like threatening fans on Opening Day.
Before Opening Day, I asked Reds President and COO Phil Castellini about his message to the fans after his radio comments went viral. Here’s his response. @WLWT #Reds pic.twitter.com/cukIIopmSv
— Brandon Saho (@BrandonSaho) April 12, 2022
“I mean, what else are you going to do with your free time and money? Baseball is literally the only leisure activity available to Americans in 2022.”
— Andrew Bare (@HalfwayToHobo) April 12, 2022
My favorite part is when he says “what would you do to make this team more profitable?” Not “win more games/be more competitive.” Giving up the game right there.
— David (@djhoch) April 12, 2022
His family also laid off 125 produce workers.
— Scott Campbell, Consul of Allocation (@MTGPackFoils) April 12, 2022
That man just oozes and drips of narcissism. He is the living embodiment of every stereotype out there of a rich owner of a professional sports franchise. He's like a used car dealership owner on super steroids.
— Sell the Team Bob Castellini (@WillLew51464805) April 12, 2022
It should be brought to his attention that the players themselves are disgruntled and speaking out against Reds management. What are his comments on that. The players themselves can go almost anywhere else. And they do.
— Kevin Bartow (@kevinbartow) April 12, 2022
“Shut up and cheer” is a bad take for a team that just traded an all star starter as a secondary piece to save money
— Nieman (@mnieman22) April 12, 2022
The Pirates ownership is also shitty, crying poor while pocketing millions. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has published a lengthy feature showing that nearly all of the team's player payroll for the last 15 seasons has been covered by ticket and concession revenues. Therefore, the owners have been free to pocket the hundreds of millions they collect from local television, national television, and revenue sharing.
While Pirates owner Bob Nutting denies the report without offering any evidence for its inaccuracy (because of course he does), the Post-Gazette did get many of the Pirates' financial records, which are required to be filed with Pittsburgh's Stadium Authority under the Pirates' lease agreement. The Pirates fought against disclosure of those records for more than two years (because they obviously would back up Nutting's denial and contain nothing that makes the ownership look like greedy asshats to long-suffering Pirates fans.)
Yankees: "Hey, At Least We Kinda Thought About Trying"
There's this thing the Mets used to do all the time in the Wilpon era in which, after a big name free agent signed elsewhere, they'd leak to some Mets-friendly reporter that they made the player an offer. "Mets were in discussions with Shlabotnik, sources say." It was a transparent effort to make it look like they were trying even though they weren't trying.
Never thought I'd see the Yankees playing that game, but yesterday Brian Cashman went on WFAN and, in discussing the free agents the Yankees missed out on, said "We never made an official offer to Correa or Freeman, but we were in touch with their reps on what they were looking for." Which is even worse than when the Mets used to do it. Rather than saying "we tried," this is Cashman saying the Yankees merely thought about trying. . . .
In related news, Marwin González was playing shortstop for the New York Yankees in the fourth damn game of the season last night.
When you are worse than the Mets at some thing . . . lol
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