Royals - 000 000 000 - 0 3 0Beckett: 9-3-0-0-7, 94. 100th career W.
Red Sox - 100 310 01x - 6 10 0
Beckett started strong, retiring the first nine batters, including four of the first five on strikeouts. He gave up a leadoff double to David DeJesus in the fourth and then set down the next nine Royals.
He allowed two singles and an HBP in the seventh, but kept the shutout intact thanks to a 463 DP. He faced only three batters over the minimum.
Aaron Bates doubled twice and singled,with a run and RBI; Kevin Youkilis singled twice; and Rocco Baldelli and Dustin Pedroia both singled and doubled. Nick Green scored two runs. Jacoby Ellsbury stole his 40th base of the year.
Jason Bay did not have an official at-bat. In fact, he did not even see a strike until the eighth inning, on the Royals' 16th pitch to him.
KC pitchers handed out nine free passes: three to Bay, three to Green, two to Jason Varitek, and one to Pedroia.1st: Ball, ball, ball, ball
3rd: Ball, ball, ball, ball
4th: Ball, ball, ball, ball
6th: HBP
8th: Ball, ball, swing/miss, ball, foul, foul, HBP
Robinson Tejada relieved Chen in the fourth and faced eight batters. Of his 41 pitches, the Red Sox put only three of them into play. His line: 1-0-2-4-1.
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Bruce Chen (6.88, 62 ERA+) / Josh Beckett (3.62, 128 ERA+)
Beckett will try for his 100th career victory this afternoon.
Chen missed all of 2008 after TJ surgery and has made three starts this year (17-16-6-10).
1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
ReplyDelete2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. Kevin Youkilis, 3B
4. David Ortiz, DH
5. Jason Bay, LF
6. Jason Varitek, C
7. Rocco Baldelli, RF
8. Nick Green, SS
9. Aaron Bates, 1B
1. David DeJesus, RF
2. Mitch Maier, CF
3. Billy Butler, 1B
4. Mark Teahan, 3B
5. Jose Guillen, LF
6. Brayan Pena, DH
7. Alberto Callaspo, 2B
8. Travis Buck, C
9. Tony Pena Jr., SS
It was nice to hear that Smoltz got tons of emails and texts congratulating him for his performance yesterday. Radio said a lot from Atlanta. Nice.
ReplyDeleteKid announcer didn't call Bates "Mr. Aaron Bates" like with the others.
ReplyDeleteEck: "He [Pedroia] gets a fastball, if you want to call it a fastball...."
ReplyDeleteGuess he was afraid it might come out wrong.
ReplyDeleteI didn't hear it, Benjamin--y'mean he was spooked that it might come out, 'Master...mmm-mmm...Bates'?
ReplyDeleteFuck Yeah!
ReplyDeleteNice.
ReplyDeleteI hope Bates is a future RS HOFer and we ALL have to get frippin over it! It's like 6th grade. :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't hear it, Benjamin--y'mean he was spooked that it might come out, 'Master...mmm-mmm...Bates'?
ReplyDeleteNo, he just went with "At first base, Aaron Bates." He got tied up a bit going from "In right field... at short stop..." and lost his rhythm. At least he got through them fast, unlike the first kid (whose slow delivery meant we only got to see Beckett's K in the corner of the screen).
I know. I mean, I live in a country with a city called Regina. And we're all supposed to say that without snickering! :)
ReplyDeleteLong or short i, way up there in the frozen tundra?
ReplyDeleteEck: "I love strikeouts. It's a beautiful thing. . . . No contact. It's a beautiful thing."
ReplyDeleteStrikeouts are nice but so are hard grounders to ss....
ReplyDeleteAs they say on Seinfeld, rhymes with a part of the female anatomy.
ReplyDeleteAnd whole milk is called homo!
ReplyDeleteDon't tell Smoltz.
ReplyDeleteSome of my best drinks are milk-based but I don't swing with the homo thing.
ReplyDeleteHe'll have to drink his coffee black.
ReplyDelete23 pitches through two. Nice pace.
ReplyDeletejosh is cruising
ReplyDelete"Homo" seems like it'd be easily confused with "homogenized" milk.
ReplyDeleteDairy farmer next door--I get it raw and whole!
ReplyDelete;)
Rico Baldy getting in the action.
ReplyDeleteAlso known as a Baldingle.
ReplyDeleteChen isn't cruising.
ReplyDelete""Homo" seems like it'd be easily confused with "homogenized" milk."
ReplyDeleteI assume that's where the name came from.
Yeah Bates!
ReplyDeleteI thought it was Regeeeena. Like Pizzeria Regina. Or is that Ragina too?
ReplyDeleteOB says the pen is up.
ReplyDeleteOh, I think of homogenization as the process for separating milk fat in order to make 1% and 2% milk, but I guess you could do it to whole milk too.
ReplyDeleteI don't know your pizza place, but the Canadian city is Reg-eye-na.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure homogenization is the opposite - it's the blending of the milk fat w/ the milk. If it's not homogenized, there's a skin of cream (fat) on the top of the milk.
ReplyDeleteIsh, the pizza place is probably Reg-ee-na, because it's probably an Italian name. (I'm guessing.)
ReplyDeleteThe Canadian city is named for the Queen of the (former) Empire. One of her titles was Reg-eye-na.
It's taking milk and forcing it through a very small sieve, which reduces the size of fat globules so that they don't separate. It's very necessary for lower percent milkfat milks. But yeah, you'd do it with whole milk too.
ReplyDeleteDO: "and remarkably, through the first two innings, Bruce Chen has given up just one run."
ReplyDelete"It's taking milk and forcing it through a very small sieve, which reduces the size of fat globules so that they don't separate."
ReplyDeleteA slightly more technical version of what I said.
And in any event, it's a ridiculous abbreviation of an ambiguous name.
ReplyDeleteNo more ridiculous than dozens of other nicknames. All nicknames are ridiculous if you scrutinize them.
ReplyDeleteWatch baseball, learn about milk.
ReplyDeleteThere's a Canadian wmtc reader who is always telling me certain US expressions are ridiculous. I always try to come up with an equivalent Cdn expression that one could find ridiculous.
ReplyDelete35 pitches.
ReplyDeletejos gamethreads are very educational!
ReplyDeleteI find it's important to always scrutinize one's preconceptions and worldview, especially as they relate to milk processing.
ReplyDeleteGot any examples, L?
ReplyDeleteHave you found any ridiculous Cdn phrases?
Hahaha Eck just called Don, "Storyland Man"
Show the game. Show your shitty promo commercials between innings.
ReplyDeleteIsh--then ther are ridiculous Maine phrases, or if not ridiculous, at least seriously local: getting done, driving truck, dite, well there!, wicked, gotcha deer, dubbing around. Or maybe those aren't even localisms and I just don't get out enough to know what's what.
ReplyDeleteI have tons of examples, but I can't do it now, I'm at work (believe it or not).
ReplyDelete"What About Sal" looks good. I just wish the sneak previews were not during the game.
ReplyDeleteI'm back.
ReplyDeleteMudding, door yard, using "bath" as a verb. Luckily I have not been infected with that vocabulary but my dad was born in Presque Isle and grew up in the County. It's a different world up there.
ReplyDeleteMudding, dooryard--what the heck else could you say to describe them?
ReplyDelete:) Laughing in Swanville....
There goes the perfecto.
ReplyDeleteThe Bunt Bid.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm off to drive tractor through my dooryard.... It's so wet out back I hope I don't wind up muddin.
ReplyDelete""What About Sal" looks good."
ReplyDeleteFor the promos, they use music to make you think of Woody Allen movies.
go josh
ReplyDeleteIs there an unusual idiomatic usage of "muddling"?
ReplyDelete"Door yard" sounds like something I wouldn't say.
Oh, mudding.
ReplyDeleteBenjamin--area between my house and barn that's not actually driveway, the place I sometimes dump firewood or longe horses or pitch wiffleball--that's the dooryard.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I looked it up. That's my front yard.
ReplyDeleteExcept I don't have a barn. Or whiffleball.
ReplyDeleteDriving through muddy areas would be mudding. Especially with a jeep or ATV. Mud trails. Come back covered in mud. Mudding.
ReplyDeletebates!
ReplyDeleteMasterful.
ReplyDeleteMaster Bates nearly stroked his first dong.
ReplyDeleteOh no, Benjamin--the front yard is where you plant maples and rugosa roses along the road and occasionally trim the grass with the bushhog and scream at the dogs for being in because it's too close to the road! That's a front yard!
ReplyDelete"Mudding" is something I never have occasion to say but which I could see myself saying.
ReplyDeleteWe have front yards and back yards. There's only so much room for yardage.
ReplyDeletesafe!
ReplyDeleteNice slide.
ReplyDeletegood ol' royals!
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't do too well to pick apart slang - regional or otherwise. It just is.
ReplyDeleteI mean, we say something is "cool" or "hot" and we're not referring to temperature.
HAHA nice throw, Tardhat.
ReplyDeleteScored as a sacrifice bunt, no out and no error.
ReplyDeletelocale!
ReplyDeleteso sac bunt/FC?
Looks like it.
ReplyDeleteObie says Ellsbury is on fire. Doesn't he know Ellsbury is LBJ and Drew is On Fire?
ReplyDeleteEllsbury padding his stats with an unnecessary steal.
ReplyDeleteHow bout a nice big sweaty dong right here.
ReplyDeleteLoaded for the Sultan.
ReplyDeleteLast time I was down south, three years ago, I was surprised people still called soda "pop."
ReplyDeletechen could have done this shit.
ReplyDeleteSeemed strange to get Chen so early. Only allowing at most, 3 runs.
ReplyDeleteLast time I was down south, three years ago, I was surprised people still called soda "pop."
ReplyDeleteThat's what it's called in Canada.
All through the US midwest, too.
Please ban maple bats.
ReplyDeleteI thought they called it "Coke" in the south.
ReplyDeleteBay has seen nothing but balls today.
ReplyDeleteRather, "coke".
ReplyDeleteBay realized he hasn't seen so many balls since [blank] (/matchgame)
ReplyDelete11/11 balls.
ReplyDelete12
ReplyDeleteAllan swears he will never call soda "pop". It's the one Canadian expression he will not adopt.
ReplyDeleteEck: "Not even close."
ReplyDelete"pop" might sneak out, but "zed" is where i draw the line.
ReplyDeleteNot a strike.
ReplyDeleteeck: "every pitch is different"
ReplyDeletewell, yeah.
"pop" might sneak out, but "zed" is where i draw the line.
ReplyDeleteOh right, zed. I think I'll go for zed before I ever say pop.
I don't even drink that shit.
Robinson Tejeda = Steve Dalkowski?
ReplyDeletewhy isn't the score like 10-0?
ReplyDeleteCastig and Obie calling LBJ's steal of home "the single most electrifying moment of the Red Sox season so far".
ReplyDeleteAnd I was at the bus terminal. :/
RBBI
ReplyDeleteThe Kansas City coaching staff sure have ridiculous mustaches.
ReplyDeletei was thinking tek would make the 3rd out and tejada would actually get out of his shitty inning without allowing a run.
ReplyDeleteIf it's any consolation, the Fox broadcasting crew completely screwed the pooch on that steal of home.
ReplyDeletefuck the heat rico, mash the change
ReplyDeleteSo it was probably more fun for Castig and Obie at the game than it was watching at home. (Though it was still very very fun.)
ReplyDelete1 hit in that inning! bates's double.
ReplyDelete+ 4 walks and lbj's bunt/FC
It's probably a requirement of the KC coaches to have staches.
ReplyDeleteIt was even fun calling Allan for a score and hearing it had happened! And of course I saw many replays online. But I wish I had seen it live.
ReplyDeleteAs disappointed as I am in the local nonavailability of Pimm's, the combination of ginger ale and cucumbers is worth adding vodka to.
ReplyDeleteThose mustaches are something else.
ReplyDeleteBates? Making a name for himself there.
You can't get Pimm's where you live? Or you just don't have any in the house?
ReplyDeletenice and quick - now get back out there for more abuse.
ReplyDeleteOh never mind, local availability, lack thereof. Why is that, I wonder?
ReplyDeleteJB PC: 15-8-12 6-7 = 48
ReplyDelete!
Pimm's.
ReplyDeleteWe loved that in NO years and years ago.
Tejada: not a good pitcher.
ReplyDelete... though tejada did have a no-hitter going.
ReplyDeleteWhen we came home from NOLA, we drank it at home for a time. Yummy stuff.
ReplyDeletetejada threw 41 pitches, sox put 3 of them into play.
ReplyDeletebates will be going back to paw after today/the break. making the most of the day.
ReplyDeleteCan't seem to get any, though I haven't been to many stores looking.
ReplyDeletePapi not having a good day.
ReplyDeletedon, on eck as pitching coach: "i see you going to mound and getting into several fights. YOU GOT SALAD, YOU GOT NOTHING!
ReplyDeleteSorry but the Royals were trying to hit Bay there for the last two at bats.
ReplyDeleteWright doesn't seem to use his legs much. Must not be good for his shoulder.
ReplyDeleteBay's Day:
ReplyDeleteBall, Ball, Ball, Ball
Ball, Ball, Ball, Ball
Ball, Ball, Ball, Ball
HBP
3 straight high and inside pitches across two pitchers and the second pitcher hits him with that pitch on the first pitch of the at-bat. Looks like he was trying to do what the other guy couldn't.
ReplyDeleteBilly Butler has a pig face.
ReplyDeleteSome people have bird faces. Some have fish faces. Some have cat faces. Some have dog faces.
ReplyDeleteSome have pig faces.
Agreed. Pig face not demeaning but in an actual resemblance way.
ReplyDeleteEssackly. It just is.
ReplyDeleteThe vendor in the stands at Fenway is saying WATER! loud enough for the mics to pick it up. Quick water would be nice here.
ReplyDeleteWent to get a cup of tea, come back, bases loaded. And Obie predictably dooming.
ReplyDeletefucking guillen stands there and gets hit. there's a rule, ump.
ReplyDeleteI often here that WATER cry on TV. It's funny, must be right near a crowd mike.
ReplyDeleteHi Andy, we've missed you lately.
Sexual Healing.
ReplyDeleteDP!
ReplyDeleteNo runs for you.
ReplyDeleteGIDP!
ReplyDeleteCG SHO still intact.
I often ^hear^, not here.
ReplyDeleteGeez, I can't type lately.
We are re-doing most of our house. Kinda moving back in in preparation for the baby. So I have been watching the games but have been working on the house.
ReplyDeleteAnd Obie predictably dooming.
ReplyDeleteWTF is wrong with that guy? It's 5-0, asshole. God, bring back Trupe and his college sports yakking. All is forgiven.
That sounds nice. I'm happy for you two.
ReplyDeleteBlue Jays have two scouts watching Buchholz. WEEI.
ReplyDeleteCould that dugout shot of Beckett be any darker?
ReplyDeleteRe Obie, I think he thinks he's enhancing the drama.
ReplyDeletejuan cruz reminds you of pedro????
ReplyDeletereally, eck?????
can't be anything baseball-related.
I hope the scouts enjoy the game. HH is a good pitcher.
ReplyDeletecan't be anything baseball-related.
ReplyDeleteHmm. We could have fun conjecturing on what the resemblance is.
Are we getting offense or Halladay from Toronto for HH?
ReplyDeleteBlue Jays are just doing some due-diligence. Send a couple of scouts to take a look at HH just in case...
ReplyDeleteWe are not getting Halladay OR trading Buchholz.
ReplyDeleteJust in case he pitches after the break?
ReplyDeleteWhat do I know?
ReplyDeleteIMHO, that is.
ReplyDeleteWho would we drop to start HH? Drop Bates and pick up HH for one start? IF he pitches well then who do we drop from the rotation?
ReplyDeleteDeal Penny during the break?
ReplyDeletePossible: Keep HH in Paw until September, call him up when rosters expand and have him join the rotation in 2010 when Penny and Smoltz may both be gone.
ReplyDeleteI could also see Clay being a several-inning force out of the bullpen in the playoffs.
ReplyDeleteThough he may pitch enough innings in AAA and that would not work.
ReplyDeleteYes we will need a long man with Dice coming back and possibly being done with MLB.
ReplyDeleteour #9 guy has batted 4 times thru 7 innings
ReplyDeleteKC #9 batting for 3rd time in 8th
Daisuke isn't done with MLB. He just has a case of the sucks.
ReplyDeletesoria in - bay might see a strike after all
ReplyDeleteSo what's the jos1 protocol during Sweet Caroline this year? Surely we won't be singing.
ReplyDeleteBit premature to call the end of his career - especially when you think of all the mediocre pitchers in MLB.
ReplyDeleteI will be singing! I'll be very happy to.
ReplyDeletePAPI HALF DONG!
ReplyDeletePapi half-dong!
ReplyDeletethat was smoked!
ReplyDeleteBall.
ReplyDeleteHopefully we won't impose any groupthink about singing. I don't stand for the national anthem but I won't try to impose a protocol about it.
ReplyDeleteBall.
ReplyDeleteThere's a strike.
ReplyDeleteWe should come up with another showtune to sing during GBA though. Send in the Clowns?
ReplyDeleteHBP.
ReplyDeleteyou do NOT want to piss off bay.
ReplyDelete...
0-for-0
Ok so this is the new question, what did Bay do to the Royals?
ReplyDeleteThey do GBA at every game?? I thought just Sundays.
ReplyDeleteI thought they did it every game. Maybe that's just a MFY thing though.
ReplyDeleteBenjamin, do you have a specific gripe against Sweet Caroline, or it's just the idea of everyone singing something, or...?
ReplyDelete6-0!
Rico plugging the gap.
ReplyDeleteI usually just don't sing, and such.
ReplyDeleteGreen hit a ball with his knob.
ReplyDeleteWhaaa?? 8-5 DP?
ReplyDeleteWTF BALDY?
ReplyDeleteI see the Red Sox did not need or miss me while I was away.
ReplyDeleteFY would have been on the ground throwing his arms and legs everywhere and contorting to be safe.
ReplyDeleteIt's just a good thing Baldy didn't make that mistake in a closer game.
In conclusion, youtube has far too many terrible renditions of Send in the Clowns.
ReplyDeletedidn't caroline evolve kind of organically as opposed to being an imposed ritual by the club?
ReplyDeleteI just don't care for Sweet Caroline, and it's gone from the occasional to the compulsive.
ReplyDeletemaybe rocco knew beckett wanted to get out and pitch.
ReplyDeletevery close, bay's foot like 2 inches from the plate when the tag is on
bot up
ReplyDeleteOH NOES, TITO THINKS WE'RE GONNA NEED HIM, HORRORS, DOOOOOMM AND DESPAIR, HERE COMES A LOSS
Judy Collins sure had a way of looking lobotomized on film.
ReplyDeleteWell, rituals become compulsive, almost by definition.
ReplyDeleteWell, rituals become compulsive, almost by definition.
ReplyDeleteJust ask Mags.
Only 30 batters to the plate so far.
ReplyDeleteJosh, wow.
Down goes Pig Face and dirty goes the water!!
ReplyDelete