Red Sox - 400 000 021 - 7 8 1The first five Red Sox batters hit safely against Chamberlain -- Ellsbury single (and stolen base), Pedroia single, Ortiz RBI single, Bay 3-run home run, Lowell single -- before Joba (5.2-6-4-2-12, 108) settled down.
Yankees - 003 000 000 - 3 10 1
Beckett (6-10-3-1-5, 108), Okajima (6 batters, 6 outs) and Saito (a perfect ninth) made sure those four runs were enough on a rainy night in the Bronx.
Chamberlain benefited from a very wide strike zone and became only the fifth pitcher since 1900 to strike out at least 12 batters in 5.2 or fewer innings. Nine of his 12 strikeouts were on called strike threes.
In the fifth, at the same time he was dispalying such finesse, Joba drilled Bay in the back. It was obvious retaliation for Bay's first-inning dong, but the umpires did nothing. Beckett chose not to seek revenge tonight.
The Red Sox have won their first five games of the 2009 season against the Yankees. The only other seasons in which that has happened? 1912 and 1985.
In 1912, the Red Sox went 19-2 against the Yankees, winning their first 14 games against New York, including four victories in three days in mid-June by scores of 15-8, 11-3, 13-2 and 10-3. In 1985, Boston won the first five meetings, then dropped the remaining eight.
The Red Sox and Yankees will meet again at Fenway Park on June 9-10-11. The next series at Yankee Stadium is scheduled for August 6-7-8-9.
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Josh Beckett (7.22, 70 ERA+) / Joba Chamberlain (3.13, 103 ERA+)
Beckett's last two starts have been crummy: 9.2 innings, 20 hits, 15 runs, 7 walks, 11 strikeouts, 13.97 ERA. Only Chien-Ming Wang would be pleased (giddy, even) at that level of performance [sic].
His season BABIP is .338, so there he's had some bad luck here and there. Mostly, though, he needs to start pitching again. Maybe tonight's match-up will inspire him.
I've won 4 in a row at the Stadium(s).
ReplyDeleteKEEP THE STREAK GOING.
Seriously, Josh needs to take the ball and throw and not be all tentative and crap.
ReplyDeletePosada to the DL.
Ellsbury, CF
ReplyDeletePedroia, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Bay, LF
Lowell, 3B
Drew, RF
Bailey, 1B
Varitek, C
Green, SS
Jeter, SS
Damon, LF
Teixeira, 1B
Matsui, DH
Cano, 2B
Swisher, RF
Cabrera, CF
Pena, 3B
Molina, C
I always love to see an excuse to re-post that animated .gif.
ReplyDeletewhat exactly was josh saying there? and who was it directed at?
ReplyDeleteThe post in which it first appeared.
ReplyDeleteEB has Dice updates from Pawtucket:
ReplyDelete10 pitches to retire the side in the 1st. K, K, P4. Hit 91-mph on the McCoy gun.
The tarp is off
ReplyDeleteAfter 8:
ReplyDeleteTexas: 1 R on 9 H
Seattle: 1 R on 1 H (and they didn't get the hit in the inning when they scored their run)
I wonder what's the most a team's been outhit by in a loss...
I meant "outhit by in a WIN". But hey, in a loss, too, what the hell.
ReplyDeleteCC on New Loo:
ReplyDelete"This park's gonna be around for the rest of a lot of these guys' careers."
So he's thinking 14, 15 years?
Ooh! 2 hits for Texas, so it's
ReplyDeleteTex 1 11 1
Sea 1 1 0
in the ninth.
Pedroia's average is .30F5 according to NESN.
ReplyDeleteI searched the P-I and I see only one team had at least 25 hits and no more than 8 runs. And that was a loss! Expos with 8 runs on 25 hits, lose to Brewers, 11 runs on 13 hits, in 21 innings. So the Brewers were outhit by 12 and won.
ReplyDeleteFirst two guys on! Where is everybody? (Not at the park!)
ReplyDeleteI see the yanks have erected a statute of jeter at shortstop.
ReplyDeletewait - that's him?
This appears promising.
ReplyDeleteFLO
ReplyDeleteYeah, we're kicking Joba's Meth-spawn ass!
ReplyDeletePapi getting back to form.
ReplyDelete1-0 us
biggest start of his life -- with momma on his mind
ReplyDelete!
BAT DOUNG HOIMRE
ReplyDeleteTHUNDER!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteTHUNDER BAY!!!
ReplyDeleteDear me that was CRUSHED.
BAY = YANKEE KILLRE
ReplyDeleteBOOM.
ReplyDeleteHELL FUCKIN YES!!!
ReplyDeleteBAY = YANKEE KILLRE
ReplyDeleteThat's Yankee uniform killer!
ReplyDeleteYahtzee.
ReplyDeletewe love job-ba
ReplyDeleteclap clap clapclapclap
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ReplyDeleteare they booing yet?
Knock him out in the first!
ReplyDeleteCrys-tal meth!
crys-tal meth!
does eck call everything a "cutter"?
ReplyDelete5 batters, 5 hits, 4 runs, 0 outs
ReplyDeleteMe likey
Oh Don.....
ReplyDeleteFans are most definitely booing (not many, but they are clearly audible).
ReplyDeleteAllan, it's either a curve, cheese, gas, or a cutter.
ReplyDeleteDuring Pedro games Joe Castiglione would call almost everything a cutter.
"There's a strike with a uh.... a cutter..."
Which Beckett are we going to see?
ReplyDeleterough beginning for the drunk tank yank
ReplyDeleteDon: Chamberlain in the dugout trying to figure out what just happened.
ReplyDeleteWell... Do you want the short or the long version? Okay so this one night in February in Lincoln, Nebraska, Joba's mother...
redsock, did you see the linescore from '89 when the Dodgers scored 1 run on 20 hits?
ReplyDeletedodgers: is that my expos game?
ReplyDeleteWow, another game that I join a bit late, and we are ahead already---this time by four runs!
ReplyDeleteVery cool. I take it Bay hit a HR after Papi drove in 2?
SIT
ReplyDeletelbj single
ReplyDeletepedroia single
ortiz single, rbi
bay 3-run hr
lowell single
drew lined out rf
bailey 143 dp
Interesting pitch selection so far. 7/8 fastballs to Jeter and Damon, then 3/4 curveballs to Portugal-boy.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recap, Allan.
ReplyDeletelbj hit was right up middle
ReplyDeletefy was to jeter's right, he looked like he was running underwater
tiz lined to cf, towards rcf
bay -- crushed to left
lowell -- again to jetes's right
yes Expos--you were at that game? Why don't I remember that?
ReplyDelete22 inning game!
ReplyDeletecmon josh pitch, asshole
i've mentioned it a few times in posts over the years -- best game i ever saw (in person).
ReplyDeleteTexas got to 1 on 13, but now are at 3/15, still top 10.
ReplyDelete3-0 on Tek
ReplyDeleteeck says he has no idea how close joba was to his mom -- does he even bothering reading the papers???
ReplyDeleteDon't be too impressed with yourself, Joba. Anyone can strike out Tek.
ReplyDeleteTexas now 7 R, 16 H--gonna look like a normal game now. I'll always remember it was 1 on 13. Always until I forget about it later tonight at some point.
ReplyDeletegood job there--rain's comin'!
ReplyDeleteHey, a strikeout that was actually a strikeout, as opposed to the last one.
ReplyDeleteMouse >>>>>>>> Touch Pad
ReplyDeleteDon: "Jacoby looking up into the rain drops..."
ReplyDeleteya got it out of the infield, Swish.
ReplyDeleteSurprised Swish didn't fist pump.
ReplyDeleteBeckett's bender is pretty sick right now.
ReplyDeleteI've become fully comfortable with the touch pad. What was that referring to? Oh, back to your own, and your sis had TP?
ReplyDeleteBeckett's fastball, on the other hand, is all over the place so far.
ReplyDeleteThanks for makin it easy, Milk. He's baserunning intolerant
ReplyDeleteBeckett's fastball, on the other hand, is all over the place so far.Since opening day, he hasn't had both working in the same game.
ReplyDeleteMy sister got a netbook, gave me her old laptop. Windows apparently was not "genuine" and it was acting real slow and stupidly, so I installed Ubuntu Linux instead and got rid of windows.
ReplyDeleteRight now I brought my mouse from my desktop computer and plugged it into the laptop. It plugs into the front of my desktop so it's an easy switch. Not like I'm going to be using both at once!
baserunning intolerant -- heh heh
ReplyDeleteI liked that too.
ReplyDeletehaha Joba
ReplyDeleteJoba is E-1
ReplyDeletePapi dong time!
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why it's even a question as to whether Joba should be in the rotation or the bullpen. He throws 92 this year as a starter. 92 with meh command - plus it makes his off-speed stuff less devastating than 95-100 fastballs to beware of.
ReplyDeleteDon just had an original thought! First time I've heard an original thought from Don regarding baseball! Ever!
Don: I think if you're a pitcher and you commit and error and the runner scores, it should be an earned run.
Papi K time!
ReplyDeleteI feel like Eck brings out more in Don than Remy does.
ReplyDeleteI heard Don present that argument before.
ReplyDeleteNow you're just spoiling the party, Patrick. :P
ReplyDeleteI said this as a a joke last night, but Don really should talk more about pitching stuff to get Eck involved, because when he does, it's funny and also informative.
ReplyDeleteEck: This is gas masterson with a circle change!
ReplyDeletejere, i found a neat new site thanks to a link at cardboard gods. baseballchronicle.com. i think i'm going to write about that 22 inning game for them
ReplyDeleteNESN panning the empty seats...
ReplyDeleteOk so I just tuned in. YES had two commercials that made me gag and feel like I just had an enema.
ReplyDeleteAfter decades of greatness the greatness comes to a new stadium. I paraphrased.
Bernie Williams is having a concert on YES. What the holy fuck?
See Ellsbury could afford to dive at that one. He misses it, and STILL holds Molina to a single. Haha fat douche.
ReplyDeleteyeah I saw that Baseball Chronicle thing. With the themes you can write about each month, right?
ReplyDeleteyeah. nice clean look.
ReplyDeleteHey Josh, how'd that feel?
ReplyDeleteOh, fuck. Come on, Josh. WTF?
ReplyDeletePlz to stop tailing fastballs over the middle of the plate, kthxbye
ReplyDeleteWhere is the Josh Becketts of yesteryear?
ReplyDeleteEck having trouble with the pitches!
ReplyDelete"You go with this slow motion camera and everything looks like a changeup!" Haha
bloop and a Jeter-hit and a blast
ReplyDeleteFUCK
ReplyDeletefans who blasted lyndon for a curtain call on a steal of home clapping for a curtain call for a HR that still has the team behind
ReplyDeleteOK, I can't do it anymore.
ReplyDeleteWas "watching" on GDGD without pulling up JoS because I've got to get some paperwork done and knew it wouldn't happen, but...DAMN!
WTF is up with Beckett this year!?
He's supposed to be our ace in the hole, not our asshole.
Yes but the Yankees are always right. If they weren't already on the field they'd want a curtain call for a single too.
ReplyDeleteNobody will be able to hit on eto the upper deck unless they bring back Mantle. Wow so he was the only guy ever to have that kind of power? Coincidence he was a Yankee? I hate that kind of bias bullshit. Even Remy will give it up to the other team when deserved. There is so much wrong with YES.
ReplyDeletenot all that impressed with eck tonight, i'm afraid. so far...
ReplyDeleteSoSock whenever you wanna watch email me.
ReplyDeleteDOCTAH
ReplyDeletewow that was a crazy catch
ReplyDeleteThey only gave props to Lowell because he started with the yankees.
ReplyDeleteIs it just me or does Joba look like he's on his momma's cough medicine?
ReplyDeleteLowell looks like he has stabbed people before.
ReplyDeleteTo the issue of Ortiz, how long until a determination can be made that he washed up or at least degraded?
ReplyDeletemug shots of joba and mom both have that despondent flat mouth look. uncanny.
ReplyDeleteThanks Andy - I will.
ReplyDeleteJust haven't had time to think straight lately, much less do anything else.
Only here tonight because my softball game got rained out.
Joba looks like he is straight out of the grapes of wrath.
ReplyDeleteTiz: Wait until end of June at least.
ReplyDeleteGDGD now distinguishing between a 2-seam and a 4-seam fastball. Wonder how often they're actually right.
ReplyDeleteAnt speculation in the NE rags about Yook?
ReplyDeleteeck - 2seam
ReplyDeletegdgd - 4seam
?
Another K on a ball...
ReplyDeleteYES poll, who is the best switch hitter since Mantle. Then after the commercial, Sharon has 208 HR's as a switch hitter, who has the most as a yankee?
ReplyDeleteWhat the fuck is wrong with this guy?
Eck has resorted to calling the circle change "that thing!"
ReplyDeleteEck: "How come nobody told me this?"
yook back tightened up in the cold. playing it safe
ReplyDeleteEck does love to use the word "paint"
ReplyDeleteNot as bad as the Fuck Yeah look alike behind the plate last night.
ReplyDeleteOn-Fire has been downgraded to a smoldering grass pile
ReplyDeleteI'm seeing Joba's games on GDGD, and he's always striking out guys on three pitches. Now I know it's because his zone is as big as his mom's meth lab.
ReplyDeleteI love Eck. He and Clemens were my idols when I was a little league pitcher. Now i have a moustache, long hair and bitch tits.
ReplyDeletehe fears tek's bat
ReplyDeleteWonder if his mom is also a whore.
ReplyDeleteYa, she is a whore.
ReplyDeleteAndy is also one third A-Rod.
ReplyDeletescranton and scrotum are pretty much the same word, aren't they?
ReplyDeletei was busy itching my scranton because my jeans were too tight.
I had sex with a fat chick once, now she pitches for the yankees.
ReplyDeleteWow - I just looked over at the line-up box. That 7-8-9 is some pretty stale oatmeal.
ReplyDeleteVan Every on deck to hit for Ellsbury.
ReplyDeleteThat should be a joke on the Office.
ReplyDeleteOh crap is LBJ being a whiny baby again? He fucking stumbled into home and a dive in the field is what hurts him? Although he did hurt one of his wrists on a slide last night from what I saw.
ReplyDeleteANdy, just because your vagina is big enough to pop out Joba Chamberlain, doesn't necessarily make you a motorhead whore. Take it back.
ReplyDeleteNow Van Superman in CF for LBJ.
ReplyDeleteI was worried about Jacoby's arm on that....
ReplyDeleteOkay, hamstring then....
ReplyDeleteBetween-inning blather alert
ReplyDeleteSaw the comments earlier about high-hit / low production games.
Last Staurday my LL'ers outhit our opponents 16 - 7 and lost 12 - 6.
Classic LOBotomy. 3 times left bases loaded, twice on 2nd and 3rd.
Swisher failing all over the place--just when he started believing his own hype, too.
ReplyDeleteShake your head a little more, Swisher. It might move the plate out from underneath that pitch.
ReplyDeleteSit
ReplyDeleteOUT
ReplyDeleteBASERUNNING INTOLERANT!
ReplyDeleteHAHHAHAHHA
ReplyDeleteWHAT A MORON
yer out!!!! haha fucker. told you he was baserunning intolerant
ReplyDeleteWhat a dope! Did he really think he was LBJ?
ReplyDeleteLowell just made baseball love to FY.
ReplyDeleteMilkdud's no LBJ.
ReplyDeleteHAHA
ReplyDeleteBailey....argggh
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately Bailey's no Youk.
ReplyDeleteWEAK FIRST BASE
ReplyDeleteMilk Dud - must have been trying to stretch it.
ReplyDeleteHAH!
I can blame him for going to third, considering the throw was coming in and he wasn't at second yet.
ReplyDeleteBailey, get your head outta your ass.
Mantle was a team player then he turned his kids into alcoholics.
ReplyDeletei'm still giggling about the dud.
ReplyDeleteOh STFU Molina, Joba's been getting pitches two inches farther off than that.
ReplyDeleteeck on molina: "this guy is an out"
ReplyDeleteEck: "This guy's got no business - he just got his bloop single first time up. This is an out. Take it. If you let this guy knock in a run, you should lose the game."
ReplyDeleteKay just called out Posada, said he wore white nail polish, for signs. Yeah right that is for A Rod.
ReplyDeleteEck is awesome.
ReplyDeleteeck needs to talk trash more often
ReplyDeleteKay's sidekick just shut him up about stealing signs and how Tek calls pitches with a runner on second and now Kay is harping on it again.
ReplyDeleteMolina still looking for the first *solid* hit of his career.....
ReplyDeleteNow critical of Beckett taking his time.
ReplyDeleteSounds like spring training. Jeff Bailey's two-base error puts Ramiro Pena on second base.
ReplyDeleteMolina goes back to do what he does best: Sitting on his ass.
Sit
ReplyDeleteIt's a little known fact, but when Joba's mom got caught selling meth, Michael Kay was the buyer.
ReplyDeleteK!
ReplyDeleteSit!
No wait, don't sit, go back out on the field and watch while we score a plethora of runs.
Did you know?
ReplyDeleteThe New York Yankees have more championships, and guys nicknamed Bitch Tits, than any team in baseball.
don't come a knockin joba
ReplyDeleteHoly Cow! The NY Yankees have more championships than anyone?
ReplyDeleteWho'd have ever known? How on earth did you find out that obscure bit of trivial infomation?
Are you a genius or something?
Van Every - NOT LBJ
ReplyDeletejoba with an aybar dance after that non-K
ReplyDeletePapi... BUNT!!! Jeter's the only one on the left side!
ReplyDeleteump decided he had given enough gifts to joba, now calling the zone
ReplyDeleteBADD
ReplyDeleteBay Against Drunk Drivers
Joba you are a whining complaining piece of children-endangering drunk driving turd. In other words, the epitome of a Yankee.
ReplyDeletego all ontario on his ass, bay
ReplyDeleteOh right, and a headhunting son of a meth whore.
ReplyDeleteAwwwww little Joba is upset that Papi walked and Bay hit a homre off of him earlier.
ReplyDeleteJoba the Cunt.
fuckign coward sack of shit
ReplyDeleteDid you know - a 15 minute call to Geico OR a Bay shot right now could get you some insurance?
ReplyDeleteEck: "I don't like that at all. That was weak. That pitch didn't get away."
ReplyDeleteWell hopefully Bay's got some good health insurance after that plunking.
ReplyDeletefucking cunt is painting for innings, then drills bay.
ReplyDeletejeter leads off next inning. just fucking saying .......... josh ...
you mean we can't get our 100th call of the game even though it would've again been wrong? Waaaaaahhhhh!
ReplyDeleteAw shit - he hit Bay?
ReplyDeleteFucking POS!
so we'll settle it on the field.
ReplyDeletelet us be, mr. ump.
Eck: "Somebody's gonna get hurt."
ReplyDeletewhat a fucking showboating asshat
ReplyDeletecrap
ReplyDeleteI don't want Beckett to hit a batter--I want him to throw a pitch at Joba IN the dugout.
ReplyDeleteThen Joba girates and has a mini orgasm walking off the mound. From what I can gather he was saying, "GAHHHHHHH I AM JOBA I AM GREAT!!!"!KDHSFDKHKJDHSGkg.
ReplyDelete4-3 Red Sox mid 5th. Says it all.
JTC showboating again?
ReplyDeleteIf I'm a Red Sox batter I'd be looking to shoot a liner right up the gut and into Joba's throat.
ReplyDeleteWhat a douchey ass waste of air Joba.
ReplyDeleteAt least when Pap goes all WWF it's when he's just won a game, not because he got one freaking mid-game K. And mid-game-that-the-Yankees-are-losing at that.
ReplyDeletejoba celebrating that he drlled bay on purpose and did not get immediately tossed.
ReplyDeletebeautiful play by that ballboy. Could see that E coming from a mile away.
ReplyDeletethat was the "whoops" hit from Major League
ReplyDelete