Tigers - 000 210 200 - 5 10 0Back at Fenway Park, the Red Sox bats felt at home immediately. Jacoby Ellsbury doubled to start the first and Dustin Pedroia followed with a line drive home run to left. Boston collected eight hits in the first two innings.
Red Sox - 220 010 10x - 6 12 0
The Tigers chipped away and tied the game in the seventh off Manny Delcarmen. After the stretch, J.D. Drew doubled and one out later Casey Kotchman singled him to third. Nick Green, who had begun the second with a dong over everything in left, lofted a sacrifice fly to center. Drew scored easily and it was Sox 6-5.
Ramon Ramirez had some trouble in the eighth. Magglio Ordonez doubled and Brandon Inge was plunked. After a successful bunt and a strikeout (why didn't Jim Leyland hit for Adam Everett?), Jonathan Papelbon came in and, with runners on second and third, got Curtis Granderson to foul out to catcher Victor Martinez. In the ninth, Bot needed only nine pitches to dispense with the Bengals (F8, K, F9).
Toronto edged the Yankees 5-4, so Boston moved to 5.5 GB in the East (one day, one game closer) and took a 0.5 lead over the idle Rangers for the Wild Card.
We thought David Ortiz was back (and back big!) with his strong performance in June. But it turns out that was an aberration.
AVG OBP SLG OPSThere is talk at SoSH about whether Terry Francona has the will to bench Ortiz and Jason Varitek (.164/.270/.236 since the ASG) and go with Lowell DH/Youkilis 3B/Kotchman 1B/Martinez C on most nights.
Mar/April .230 .290 .333 .623
May .143 .278 .242 .520
June .320 .409 .653 1.062
July .247 .306 .539 .845
August .071 .188 .107 .295
Road Gms .201 .287 .307
Last 13G .146 .226 .313
Last 24G .202 .273 .393
We need the absolute best lineup on the field every single night, egos be damned. Playoff Tito, you are our only hope.
Adam Kilgore reports (see here, too) that
Since the Red Sox arrived in Baltimore the morning of July 31, 19 roster spots have remained constant. Fifteen players cycled through the other six spots over the next nine days [Justin Masterson, Adam LaRoche, Marcus McBeth, Josh Reddick, Victor Martinez, Casey Kotchman, George Kottaras, Billy Traber, John Smoltz, Rocco Baldelli, Chris Woodward, Junichi Tazawa, Jed Lowrie, Enrique Gonzalez, and Fernando Cabrera]. ...Also at 7: The Blue Jays roll over for the Yankees.
It has been the busiest week of shuttling players in and out of the clubhouse that traveling secretary Jack McCormick can remember.
526 comments:
1 – 200 of 526 Newer› Newest»1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. Victor Martinez, C
4. Kevin Youkilis, 3B
5. David Ortiz, DH
6. J.D. Drew, RF
7. Jason Bay, LF
8. Casey Kotchman, 1B
9. Nick Green, SS
1. Curtis Granderson, CF
2. Placido Polanco, 2B
3. Marcus Thames, LF
4. Miguel Cabrera, 1B
5. Carlos Guillen, DH
6. Magglio Ordonez, RF
7. Brandon Inge, 3B
8. Gerald Laird, C
9. Adam Everett, SS
BP's current PECOTA-adjusted playoff odds offer more hope than Cool Standings:
BOS 72.7% (61.4% WC)
TBR 20.8% (19.0% WC)
TEX 20.2% (5.5% WC)
MSN: "Reds starters Aaron Harang and Bronson Arroyo have cleared trade waivers, a major-league source told FOXSports.com. Harang is under contract for next season at $12.5 million, Arroyo at $11 million. (Cincinnati holds club options on both for 2011.) The Reds would probably need to assume a portion of that money in order to move either pitcher."
Hope springs eternal - we CAN score runs after all!
Not too many, apparently, but at least.......it's a start.
I am obviously going to have to read Infinite Jest. I actually have it on the shelf, but have never gotten to it. After Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I had to wait before doing another soul-searching, endlessly-wandering stream of thought piece. Not that I didn't consider Zen well worth reading, I did. And I'm sure Wallace's work is at least as good. It just seems like it will be a long read (I don't get to read as much as I would like) and every time I thought about starting it there was always something else I wanted to read first.
I'm planning to re-read it beginning in November. ... JoS Book Club!
uck the Tigers. They're gonna wake up in a smoothie!
(stolen from sosh)
Let's hope the real Red Sox show up tonight. Not that putrid excuse of a team that played 4 in NY. Time to start getting games back.
NY is 18-5 (.783) since the All-Star Break
There's NO WAY that kind of record is sustainable
Especially considering Burnett, Joba, and Pettitte are 1st, 2nd, and 8th respectively in walks allowed in the AL
I'm not crying because you left me this way. My eyes are just a little sweaty today.
what sucks is we could have done better with the softer july schedule because august is tougher.
If the Red Sox bats stay silent again I may commit seppuku.
Ok, I don't know who the lady in red is, but she has a big caboose and we are just 7 minutes away from it is on!!!
oral hershiser scares me.
he looks positively evil.
Last night's game thread - riffing on RUNS - was fun. It helped a lot.
I had to leave work before the end of the game, but I kept in phone touch w/ Allan for updates. Then got home in time to see the lovely 9th inning.
I don't have the creative energy tonight to make RUN songs, poems and literary allusions.
I just want to win this fucking game.
And the next one.
And the next one.
And the one after that.
SoSock, you might want to check out DFW's essays, like the collection Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. I positively LOVE these. Perhaps you'll love IJ like A does, but if you want a Wallace fix w/o undertaking that project, I highly recommend Supposedly Fun Thing. Amazing stuff.
L is right.
ASFT is the perfect gateway drug.
VOOBS, bitches!
Well I missed the game threads on the weekend as I just did not have the energy to be online while watching the games (24 1/2 hours of work in a 36 hour span does that to me) but tonight is a new night and it is time to fragging win a game.
I'm feeling good about this one.
If it's a gateway drug, it would have worked on me. They always do!
August may be tough, but we play 19 of our final 35 games against teams that are below .500, and eight games of our final 39 against Chicago, who are only 2 games over .500
In case you weren't counting, that means 27 of our final 39 games against teams that are no more than 2 games over .500
I think we'll be fine
s1c, that's one tough schedule!
We were all putting the word RUNS in famous literary quotes, songs, even bible verses I believe. It was pretty funny - lots of creative stuff.
Glad I don't have to rely on GDGD as it is 2 pitches behind.
Fragging fan, don't fight for the ball when it is indians at the bat.
That guy who tried to take the foul ball away from Martinez is a world-class tool. Really, a 16-0 Patriots shirt?
Or Tigers!
And by indians you mean tigers.
Placido is very underated....
Yeah it was tough because 6 1/2 hours were unplanned. I don't mind working 10 or so hours when it is planned, but I hate having to come in an emergency because some idiot didn't make a flight in Atlanta.
Dammit, Penny, throw strikes
Ok, Tigers not Indians.
Alright, not a clean inning, but a scoreless inning
I'll take it
The Tigers are not a super disciplined team at the plate, so I'm okay with Penny nibbling. But yeah, walks are bad.
Yup, long shifts are different when you know in advance. It's like you mentally pace yourself. But having to work 10 extra hours, unplanned...! Ugh. I hope you were at least well compensated.
just a reminder to anyone who can, it's blueberry season and if you get a chance it's really nice to pick your own.
Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Sox. Could you, would you please score some fragging Runs!!!
Leadoff runner in scoring position?!?!
We have some amazing orgnaic blueberries from BC, having them later w/ vanilla frozen yogurt. We don't pick them ourselves, but we're happy other people pick them.
HIT! WE GOT A HIT!!!
"Most lefties would have made that play"
I laugh and then shudder, remembering Youk in left.
L-2B-J
regardless of who picked them, I'm psyched to see blueberries at the farmers markets every week.
six words
WIN A GAME
and
GO BLUE JAYS
OMG A LEADOFF DOUBLE!!!!!
CI leadoff dong for MFY
yeah, my life is a bit complicated and far away from farms right now. but organic fruit in season is amazing. it's like a gift.
How's the basement/articles from the basement?
I don't want to see this inning end until every Sox player has a hit.
HELL YEAH!!!!!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!!!!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!
WE SCORE RUNS!!!
He hit that ball real hard.
OK, FY!!!
DonG, Dong,
And the happy feet is playing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well that was almost a leadoff
*that is to say, Fuck yeah
Fuck Yeah!
In the words of Don Orsillo there...
"ohhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhh"
I love our chorus of Fuck Yeah!!!
Pedroia's dong is twice as big as Jeter's.
Tim, thanks for asking. Minimal damage (to our things), maximum work.
Info here.
Dustin!
Major fuck yeah action on the thread. I like that - "a chorus".
Yooouuuk
The first part of that wmtc post, anyway. I'm sure the rest is boring, just me venting.
Yeah, Yanks have gone HR-1B-1B in their half of the inning since Mitre got out of trouble in the first.
I wouldn't think Zen and the Art has much in common with IJ. Pirsig's not really writing a novel, more of a Western philosophy primer than anything else. But, still a great book.
3 fucking hits in one inning? Great computer virus!
I think Ortiz is ready for another hot streak.
Imagine my delight to turn on the TV and see that we are in the lead in the FIRST INNING.
Already, I am breathing better!!
Holy Shit!!
I watched the 1st AB in the bedroom, walked out here and switched on the set, and -LOOKY THERE!"
I assume with 2 runs, no one on, and V-Mart at bat Petey must have whipped out his dong.
Thames on the Body of Water team, along with Bay, Rivers, Hudson, etc.
min damage = good
max work = not so good
if you/landlord need a good electrician, you know who to call =)
that sucks that it will be torn apart for awhile, hopefully they'll be able to get it cleaned up and safe (with regards to mould) so you don't have to move out.
didn't know you were starting grad school either - cool! what are you doing?
FOUR! FOUR HITS! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
hits! hits! we're getting hits!!
now if some of them become RUNS, we may...
no, I won't say it. but we may!
Alright bay, show us that canuck dong of yours.
LOADED?!?!?!
What's that thing that happens when the last out is made, and you have more runs than the other team?
I forgot.
4, count 'em, 4 hits.
Is this what we used to call offense? I seem to recall there being a thing with that name in our reportoire a while back.
After this I'm out for the night. 9am exam I've barely touched the stuff for. No motivation whatsoever...but can't thread/watch/study, so I'm cutting out the most logical one. For the past 3 nights, it's been study. Tonight, thread has to go however.
I'll be leaving our sewing circle.
Bases loaded!
Now...why couldn't we do this over the weekend?? Is the NYY pitching that much better? Is it being back at Fenway? Did Tito give them a pep talk?
Tim - I like the evil laugh :)
Damn, did E. Jackson revert to last year? Or maybe the year before that?
so we go from "the season is fucked" to "hell yeah, we're rollin'"!!
sosock is an electrician, but he's kind of far away. who do you have in mind?
in sept i begin a master's program to become a librarian. trying to change my day job (non-writing job).
graduated university in 1982, so it's a big change!
Show us what's in your kotch, man!!!
"Just to finish up on the steroid issue"
OK, he actually said that, but will they really be finished?
Doubt it.
patrick, let me know if you think of it.
i don't seek explanations, but i think we can rule out pep talk.
FAK!
Damn, hard-hit, but an out
Still I'll take a 2 run lead in the 1st any day
i hope tim isn't gone yet. i want to know who the electrician is. isn't tim an accountant? (or will be)
Very nice, yeah, I heard it's tough to get back into it after being out of school for so long...My mom's husband just completed his MBA and I think he graduated from Tufts in '72 or something. Oh well, I'm sure once you get into the swing of things you'll be rolling.
Also, my dad is an electrician in Hamilton. And I'm working for him for the rest of August.
Alright gotta go now - talk to you about it later!
Minimum service call charge - $78.00.
Minimum service call charge to Toronto - $78.00, a warm bed, a couple of meals, and a whole lot of beer.
Just hope it can wait till I get caught up from my last trip up north.
lol, at this rate i won't be an accountant. my exam tomorrow is in just that, advanced accounting. and i'm fuuuuucked as of right now.
time to translate some foreign financial statements!
Rios traded to WSox
Pedro starts Wed, I think
thanks tim, good luck!!
I'll let SoSock take the call. Of course, you would need it approved by the authorities up here so a bribe* may be in order.
* - Bribe involves steak and beer.
Pedro starts Wednesday - Moyer to the pen.
Digger probably throwing things in Bristol.
Catching up on the thread. Allan, I will gladly join you for JoS book club. I'll pick up IJ in the Strand on my way home or something.
SoSock, if you come up next summer, we'll get you change a light bulb.
Oh shit, does this mean I'll have to follow thru on this? Not the reading but the discussing ...
Will you settle for steak and wine?
I think Ordonez was out.
Ha!
My NC license is reciprocal with Virginia and SC, maybe Georgia too, I forget.
Toronto might be a stretch :)
i think you may be right.
espn finally gets a decent replay. god they suck
Oh shit, does this mean I'll have to follow thru on this? Not the reading but the discussing ...
We could do one sided discussion. I'll shoot ideas and impressions on to you and you'll say "hmmm" and "ahhh".
Steak and wine, delicious.
I've never done a book club kinda thing. Could be interesting. Could be awful. Who knows.
$78 to change a light bulb seems a bit excessive. Plus his travel expenses? Yikes. :)
Christian Guzman cleared waivers. Theo is involved.
And steak and wine will do just fine, thank you very much.
We'll take our chances on the authorities.
Oh wait....I forgot they're watching you. Better get a permit to change that bulb.
Second book could be Eyeless in Gaza or Point Counterpoint, by Aldous Huxley. Favorites of mine.
It's so nice to see a team other than the Sox squander
Hits aweigh my Sox.
Hits aweigh.
Score runs to Victory
and sink the Tigers Today!!!
I am not a book club person. I don't like to read what I am told to read and or told how fast I am supposed to read it.. We are in one sort of book club with three other couples. We talk about the reading for 20 minutes, then eat and talk about other stuff for 2 hours. Seems sort of just an excuse to socialize.
Huxleym no less. You ARE into the heavy shit, aren't you.
Not sure where that m came from
Point Counterpoint, I love that book. Read it so long ago, I should read it again. Also loved Brave New World, also read ages ago.
Who's reporting that about Guzman, Andy?
On one other attempted read many years ago, I signed up for the first section book, so if I can find that stiff, I can guarantee a strong start (like 7% of the book!).
I teach Brave New World, but I'm thinking about dropping it. Great ideas, but not much of a novel.
Guzman cleared waivers which means the Sox passed on him once.
Green!!!
GREEN ENERGY!!!!!!!!!!!!
GREEEEEEEN!!!
Green suddenly hitting again??
I DON'T BELIEVE
WHAT I JUST SAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I really worry about their starting pitching"
HAS THIS GUY WATCHED A GAME AT ALL THIS WEEK!!!!!
18 innings pitched and 2 ER.
Obviously a SUCKY starting staff.
OMFG!
Green's dong is out!
GREEN POWER, wave those solar panels folks!
What the hell is going on?!?!?!
I'm suddenly so grateful for 3 runs.
So, is Nick Green reemerging?
I think Edwin Jackson is reemerging.
I was 12 or 13 when I read Brave New World. It's highly possible if I read it today I'd know it isn't much of a novel. But many images from it have stayed with me always.
My list of books to read is crazy long, I'd need a few lifetimes, but I do soon want to get to The Open Veins of Latin America. Ofer recommended it, then immediately afterwards I heard of it 4 or 5 other places. Seems like a must for me.
I love Edwin Jackson.
I teach Brave New World, but I'm thinking about dropping it. Great ideas, but not much of a novel.
My thoughts exactly. I loved it when I was 14, but it didn't stand up on a second read. Have you read Eyeless or Point Counterpoint?
Why can't Jackson still be on the FKR?
Good morning, World.
It's a beautiful day out there. The Red Sox are getting their wood on!
Just awoke from a nap. I forgot how much I like naps.
6 hits and only the second inning!
I have never read BNW.
Who is this tool. Just make shit up that sounds like you know something and spew it out.
I still can't believe he actually said that.
Bullpen - maybe
Offense - definitely
Starting pitching - not really the problem.
Sure the 4th or 5th man will struggle some, but does any club really have 5 quality starters?
What is going on with LBJ? Is he going to shave or what? If he keeps the scruffy look, I may trade him in for Lars Andersen sooner than I planned.
Still lurking just to say, this is freakin' sweet!
My list of books to read is crazy long, I'd need a few lifetimes, but I do soon want to get to The Open Veins of Latin America. Ofer recommended it, then immediately afterwards I heard of it 4 or 5 other places. Seems like a must for me.
It was a life changer for me. No exaggeration. It changed the way I see the world.
Why did Ells abort the mission to 3rd after it went to the backstop?
Well we really do have only 2 quality consistent and healthy starters so I wouldn't say it totally isn't a concern. But I have some faith in the young guys (Penny not so much)
I also have not reread Brave New World since reading it in school several decades ago. But we read it along with 1984, and the two books are sort of merged in my memory. I should probably go back and read both. A good third with that could be The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
After re-reading those three, losing four to the Yankees won't seem so bad.
There's aar on that hill!
Tied in the toilet.
LBJ took a big turn, but he would have been out by 20 feet at least
The Jays let Alex Rios go to the other Sox for nothing, wow.
green light pls
1984 is one of the very few books I've re-read. I first read it in Jr High, then again when it was reissued in 1983, then again in 2000. Each time, I get more out of it, and am more in awe of Orwell.
The Jays let Alex Rios go to the other Sox for nothing, wow.
Which means the other Sox are probably picking up the entire (onerous) salary.
Also, although I really really like Margaret Atwood, I really disliked Handmaid's Tale. As Zen said about BNW, all idea, no book.
I proofread it when it went into paperback. Just a little L factoid.
Damn, my buddies are going to be mad. I told them I'd be around for the start of the show as I have no LL tonight.
I haven't even got to the shower yet.
Oh well, they play till 10:30 or 11 usually. I'll get there.
Huxleym no less. You ARE into the heavy shit, aren't you.
To answer your question: I'm "reading" Ulysses right now.
"Which means the other Sox are probably picking up the entire (onerous) salary."
They are but I still find it surprising they couldn't at least get some player for him as well.
Infield hit!
I think I remember more of 1984 than BNW, but there are some things that muddled together.
Safe!
Ofer, that's so cool. I will read it soon. (Soon-ish.)
Jared Diamond's books did that for me - Guns, Germs & Steel, and Collapse. And Michael Pollan, too. Big changes in the way I see the world and choices I make.
Yoooook!
I hope our non-squanderage continues.
OK, we kinda squandered some earlier, but we didn't come away with nothing.
That's cool about Handmaid's Tale. I found it sort of the female version of 1984. I thought it was thought provoking, even if not great literature.
OMG, I am getting tired of all these hits. Ho hum. :)
Papi wtf are you doing?
there we go!
aw fucking papi
RUNS! RUNS! WE HAVE RUNS!!!!!
Dumb, but I'll take it.
RBI = Good
Baserunning = Not so much
They are but I still find it surprising they couldn't at least get some player for him as well.
It's the whole waiver thing. If the WS claimed him, and the BJs didn't pull him back, the other Sox get him for nothing, but take on his whole salary. I'm pretty sure that's the rule. The BJs can't ask for anything.
OK - mixed results
1st - no squanderage,
then - squanderage
But I'm liking the trend!
Jules Henry changed my world view: Culture Against Man, Pathways to Madness. I couldn't have ever found myself a teacher without those and books by John Holt and Edgar Z. Friedenberg.
I'm glad Michael Pollan is writing his books about what he is, but man, I really despise his writing style.
1984 - good book
Handmaids Tale - Decent book
Last read both in 1975 - World Masterpieces.
Ok Penny, time to have a clean inning, mmm, ok?
What about his style, Patrick?
Handmaid's Tale is definitely thought provoking. I love its politics, just didn't like the book. But I love that a lot of people got thinking about those ideas. Very important.
I have never heard of John Goldfine's important writer! I have to look him up.
Jared Diamond, Jules Henry= added to the list.
How did you read Handmaid's Tale in 1975? It was written ten years after that. :)
Pollan's writing seems monotonous and plodding. I like his journalism, going to places and reporting experiences. I always feel that by the time I've gotten half way through, he is repeating himself.
Nice DP
We Swung our bats and the hits kept a'coming.
There were more runs scored than there was an inning ago.
We swung once more and the Sox kept a scoring
around the bases and down to Tito!
"Handmaid's Tale is definitely thought provoking."
I agree. Disturbing but definitely thought provoking.
Patrick, wow, I LOVE Michael Pollan's writing. It's exactly how I would like to write, and how I try to write. I find him so engaging.
What is it that turns you off?
DP! Cool.
If we can win Penny's start, we gotta have faith in Tazawa tomorrow and then it's Josh Fucking Beckett on Wed. Suddenly the world looks less grim.
64 pitches for jackson thru 2.
So interesting, Patrick finds the writing monotonous and plodding, to me it is symphonic.
64 pitches for jackson thru 2.
Gotta start hacking. We want him in, not the bullpen!
Oops, meant only 1984. Got to many windows open. Read handmaids while in Portland 1989 or while traveling.
Sox
10 of 15 batters have reached base.
3 consecutive innings with the leadoff runner on!
Jules Henry quotation for today:
The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.
-Jules Henry
That last sentence really strikes me because at cc I spend a lot of time on salvage work with people who have spent 12 years learning what pieces of shit they are.
s1c said...
Oops, meant only 1984. Got to many windows open. Read handmaids while in Portland 1989 or while traveling.
I have trouble remembering when I got married, and you can remember when you read a certain book, that's amazing
Have you read Eyeless or Point Counterpoint?
I have not.
Have you read Eyeless or Point Counterpoint?
I have not.
To me, it amazes me that they're by the same author. While in BNW the characters are cardboard figures advancing the one big idea he wants to convey, in both of those the characters are extremely vivid and deep, there are myriad ideas flying every which way, and many questions and no answers besides partial, obviously imperfect answers that are contradicted within the same book. Plus, he's very playful in both those books, while Brave New World is maddeningly straight forward.
I think I have read excerpts from Jules Henry but didn't remember the name. When I was teaching (brief foray), a friend/mentor gave me several things to read, and that sounds very familiar.
I was teaching in an alternative setting - young people who had dropped out of high school. My friend was teaching basic reading literacy to people age 18-24.
So you can imagine a lot of that kind of thing got passed around.
TOR: 001 2
MFY: 101
tor still batting in 4th
Huxley may have had different audiences or purposes in mind with the 2 books.
3-2 Jays
Yeah, l-girl, that was exactly the sort of setting Jules Henry spoke to 45 years ago, and, sadly, alas, still does.
Well, dang, guess i'll have to stop the song lyrics.
Ok Penny can we get an OTT?
(1984, Fountainhead, The prince, Huckleberry Finn, The Hobbit, and one other classic which escapes me was the masterpiece class).
Nope no OTT
Huxley WANTED what he wrote to come true, his book was a policy exercise in favor of eugenics.
jays 4-2
Huxley may have had different audiences or purposes in mind with the 2 books.
Makes sense. His writing about LSD/mescaline is also pretty different. But I guess that can be expected...
My sister is at the NYY game tonight. I just texted her GO BLUE JAYS.
I find it rather amusing that tonight we are much less focused on the game and talking off topic stuff. Is it because it is not NY? Or because we are leading? The tension level is just so different.
I wonder if the players feel that way as well and hence are hitting better.
Is your sister a NYY fan, Laura?
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