Athletics - 300 000 001 - 4 12 0After a questionable out call at first base to begin the game, Matsuzaka gave up a double, another double, and a home run. After only 12 pitches, Boston trailed 3-0.
Red Sox - 200 020 11x - 6 10 0
But then -- just like the old saw about Tim Wakefield getting it back as quickly as he lost it -- Dice settled down. He scattered a handful of singles over the next 5+ innings and the Red Sox bats took the lead.
In the bottom of the first, Marco Scutaro singled and David Ortiz doubled off the Wall. Kevin Youkilis singled them both in and it was 3-2. Darnell McDonald opened the fifth with a double and Ortiz smoked a two-out dong to right. Boston led 4-3.
With two outs in the seventh, Dice hit a batter and allowed a single, but Daniel Bard got out of the 1st/3rd jam by striking out Kurt Suzuki. Bard then pitched a 1-2-3 eighth. In the meantime, Scutaro and Dustin Pedroia hit back-to-back doubles (FY's 1st RBI in more than two weeks) in the seventh and Scuatro blooped an RBI single into left center in the eighth.
Jonathan Papelbon gave up a solo home run in the ninth, but got the save.
In addition to his double and dong, Flo walked twice. Scutaro had three hits. McDonald had two hits and a walk. J.D. Drew tripled to start the sixth, but watched in dismay as the next three hitters all popped out.
In Toronto, the Blue Jays shit the chambre for the second night in a row, blowing a 2-1 lead in the ninth inning and losing to the Rays 7-3. The worthless Jays dropped behind the Red Sox with the loss. The Yankees beat the Orioles 9-1.
Dice's last four starts:Scutaro, SS
Pedroia, 2B
Ortiz, DH
Youkilis, 1B
Drew, RF
Beltre, 3B
Hermida, LF
Varitek, C
McDonald, CF
IP H R BB K PITB-Ref ranks Matsuzaka's 79 major league starts by Game Score. His six 2010 starts are ranked: 71, 61, 6, 77, 3, 57.
0511 vs TOR 7 3 1 0 9 116
0517 at NYY 4.2 9 7 3 3 105
0522 at PHI 8 1 0 4 5 112
0527 vs KCR 4.2 2 3 8 1 112
So in between two of his top six starts, he throws just about his worst game ever. Who knows wtf we'll see tonight?
Sheets starts (via PA):
IP H ER BB K HR ERA
First 6: 30.1 42 24 16 16 6 7.12
Last 5: 32.0 22 10 13 35 1 2.81
Orioles/YankeesJune 2 in Baseball History
Rays/Blue Jays
1935: Babe Ruth announces his retirement.
1943: The Red Sox and Browns play their fourth consecutive extra-inning game (doubleheaders on May 31 and June 2). Boston will set a record with 31 extra-inning games in one season.
1995: John Valentin goes 5-for-5, with three home runs, becoming the first shortstop in history to have 15 total bases in one game.
237 comments:
1 – 200 of 237 Newer› Newest»Victor is sitting because he'll have to catch Wakefield in the day game tomorrow. So it's Cactus Time tonight. Martinez last caught Dice on May 17 at Stade Fasciste.
Charlie Watts turns 69 today!
Watts said "he has had a compulsive habit for decades of actually sketching every new hotel room he occupies – and its furnishings – immediately upon entering it. He stated he keeps every sketch, but still doesn't know why he feels the compulsion to do this."
What to do, what to do. Watch DiceK and get aggravated, endanger my health, and go to bed mad or be hopeful, stupid, and brave and watch the game?
Perhaps tuning in late will be the compromised approach. And tuning out early, if need be.
Watch DiceK and get aggravated, endanger my health, and go to bed mad or be hopeful, stupid, and brave and watch the game?
Isn't watching the game both choices here? ??
Davis, CF
Barton, CF
Sweeney, RF
Suzuki, C
Cust, DH
Ellis, 2B
Gross, LF
Rosales, 3B
Pennington, SS
David Ortiz and Jon Lester have been named American League Player and Pitcher of the Month, respectively, for May!
ARI-LAD scoreless in the bottom of the 12th.
Oh, Allan, you are just so logical... Yes, the choice is whether to watch or not. I will go get ice cream, come back and see what is happening, and THEN decide.
GO SOX!
Your Q boils down to:
"Watch DiceK ... or ... watch the game?"
Amy would be glad to know the 1st pitch was a called strike
fack - stuck with the oakland guys. who are going on and on and on and on about how slow dice works.
may need mute.
ah - now they can imitate the rays b'casters and whine for 5 innings.
NESN for me!
BTW: Catch the ball!
is hermida is a trance? wtf?
maybe i should put on some music ,...
Perhaps a little of that trademark wildness would be in order here
Are there any workarounds to get games on the Web? I'm fasting/abstaining and can't go to the Bar now. And I found getting MLBtv wasn't worth it for me.
pitching to contact -- not working out so well.
Dice and Lackey are in the same boat for me!
Sucky.
Jeez, 4 batters - 3 extra base hits.
What are we going to listen to allan?
3 runs in 1 out. So that should be 9 runs an inning, if we extrapolate. Thanks for mentioning that ridiculous "Lackey vs. A's" stat.
Granted, one of those runs is unearned, right?
and i think the first out was actually safe.
Somehow, I can hear, all the way across the country, in Amy's house: the sound of a television being switched off, and an ice-cream container opening.
Dr J - GDGD did not show Hermida being charged with an error, so no. All earned. Unless the official scorer has it differently
You are right, Allan. As a lawyer, I am deeply embarrassed that I phrased the question that way! I think, however, that Dice has answered my question for me this inning. I am going to get ice cream now. If the score is any worse when I return, I will drink myself into a deep sleep.
My question should have been: Dare I watch the game or should I spare my health and watch something else instead?
This is a tough crowd.
Batters vs. individual pitchers can be useful, but usually those involve less than a dozen at bats, so no one talks about the reliability of small data sets.
OK. I thought he should have made the catch.
i have read that any set of AB less than 100 is suspect, and most batters will never get that against any pitcher. even getting 50 against one pitcher is tough.
unless it is 12-for-13 or 0-for-20, it probably means poop.
pfffft
Well, it's time for Beltre's bat and the rest of the offense to dig us out of a hole yet again...
hahahaha!
i tried oak tv again. they are whining about pitches to scutaro.
a big fat dong would do wonders for me right now
close!
Petey is really struggling. If one can believe GDGD that pitch was batting practice, and he flies to right.
Still love him tho
a big fat dong would do wonders for me right now
I would venture to say that you speak for us all.
FY needs to increase his red bull consumption.
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK
3-2.
YOOOUUUUKKKK!!!
Yeah yeah yeah YOUK.
The Dodgers win it with 2 outs in the bottom of the 14th, 1-0.
The problem in that Dice has to go back out there.
mrs g:
there is always a flaw in every plan.
Music for 2nd inning: Coltrane Jazz.
Yook!
We may have a footballish score here before it's done
amy: why not watch the game AND drink yourself silly?
I do NOT have the statistical data to back this up, but.....
it seems to me that even in his "good" games Dice tends to start slow and get better as the game goes on
maybe, but by the time he gets untracked, he's at 80 pitches!!!
i think pennington is 0 for his last 27
cat like reflexes, but bad throw.
What does it take to get an error this game?
davis couldn't have hit that pitch with an oar
Raining like hell here all of a sudden. Gotta go pick up my son, who rode his scooter to the skating rink.
BRB.
BTW - SCORE SOME RUNS
jeez - tek was almost in the dugout when sweeney was throwing the ball back in.
outs pls
dice likes 'trane.
BAL - 000
MFY - 04
FKR - 00
TOR - 11
let's get sweaty on these sheets.
Large man walking
crap - time to burn the sheets
fuk
A little discipline would be nice. Second pitch pop-up by Youk and a first pitch ground out back to the pitcher by Drew.
Not very selective
OK, what the fuck is the score? I am back.
OAK - 300
BOS - 200
Mod on? uh oh.
Still 3-2. OK. I will give Dice a chance. One ice cream and one cosmo = slightly more tolerant.
yeah - trash-talking A's fan...
more cosmos, pls
& a mf dp
yes
give us outs
we need them
Cosmos > Dice K
Not. even. close.
He truly sucks.
that was nice.
maybe i missed one, but dice threw 13 pitches in that inning, all strikes.
23-18-9 13 = 63
Nice
breaking news on oak tv
griffey announces retirement
I don't care how many strikes he threw. He still gives me way too much agita.
Yes, they announced about Griffey on NESN also.
What do the A's fans have to talk trash about?
It seems Laura and I are never threading on the same games this season. :(
oh you know ... billy beane is a great author, theo will never write a book as great as moneyball. ... fenway sucks because there is no foul territory. ... that sort of thing ...
Oof.
Personally, I think if Amy has to watch Dice pitch, the least Tek can do is hit a dong for her. After all the loyalty she has shown to him, it's not much to ask.
I agree, SoSock. Seeing Tek's dong would definitely make it worth watching DiceK "pitch."
dice has struck out 3 of last 4 batters.
I have Don and Jerry on this wonderful MLBtv that some kind person let me borrow.
Are you trying to persuade me to like him? If so, you have a long way to go.
Dice is rolling.
Let's change discs -- Powerage!
Don: Dice has been ahead of seven straight batters 0-2.
Love that OTT.
Yes that is my goal. By October, I'll have you begging to buy my Dice cap for $20.
...
Did you know I had Dice-K cap?
Microwave likes Bon Scott.
What does a Dice-K hat look like?
it is blue like a sox cap, but it has the japanese characters for "strikeout" on it.
mmmmmmmm......
Billy Beane is a great statistician and thinker, only an average writer. Theo probably won't ever write a book as great as Moneyball. Who cares? Beane will never coach a team to a World Series title. Fenway is GREAT because the fans are close to the PLAYING FIELD, and therefore the players, instead of watching from the other side of an avenue's worth of non-playing-field ground.
Is taht all they got ;>
Hey - an OTT for Dice and a lead-off double!
It's a start
It may take til October. But I doubt I will want your DiceK cap.
bust that slump, fy!
Pop-ups with men on - very non-productive.
Wait, that's bad english isn't it?
Another perfect game going on, going into the 9th.
holy fuck - galaragga!
wtf??
better switch over again!
Did anyone hear what team/pitcher it was?
75 pit thru 8!
What the hell is going on with perfect games?
Cleveland against Detroit
Poor Petey. It's gotta hurt. But Papi's coming back. He will too
batting dilution.
I can't find the game. Is it on ESPN?
still bottom of the 8th, 2 outs.
ESPN says it will switch over from St Louis Cinci game
lotsa perfect games is a sign of the end times, isn't it?
PAPI _____________
DiceK better be kissing Papi for that dong.
PAPI!!!!
Hah hah.
So Large. So Fatherly.
lemme bedazzle that shit for ya, sheets
going to the 9th in det
That is what the Spanish announcers call him.
End of time or end of baseball.
Same thing, I guess.
I see run(s)!
EL MAS SEXY!
It's Detroit's Galaragga vs. Cleveland. One inning to go.
i'm with the tigers game.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT A CATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tigers annc have to change their pants.
one pitch - one out!! fucking a
redmond down 1-2
2 down in Det
2 down?
he's still batting on my TV
ok 2 down.
sosock has a mole ind et
Two down now.
What a play by Jackson!
this is why the package is so cool.
click over to anything
oh that ump has balls!
he's right i think but OWW
Oh Noooooooooo!
SAFE????
Once again I hold my breath. This time for a pitcher I have never even heard of!
he was out.
OMG -- cl;early out
det tv: "what an absolute travesty!"
OMG. How does he make that call?
Unbelievable.
What is it with umps this year?
HE WAS OUT!
det tv sound seriously heartbroken.
crowd still booing
back to sox.
The ESPN announcers in the studio are saying it should have been an out. I don't have it on. Redsock?
Man, that is AWFUL.
in real time, i thought he made a gutsy but correct call.
replay -- clearly safe. by half a step. no question about it.
I think baseball needs to use instant replay. That is just awful.
First baseman jawing with Joyce.
Donald singles vs. Galaragga.
Anyone else kind of relieved? Three perfectos in the space of a month would be a little creepy.
He was SOOO far out. How could he call that? Where was the manager??
DREW -- TRIPLE, MO-FOS
OK, back to the Sox.
Boy, that really is unfair.
Makes me less mad at DiceK. Have to use my anger towards that asshole umpire.
you figure at that moment, an ump will err on the side of history, call the outside pitch a strike, bang bang play goes to pitcher, etc.
damn.
he ain't gonna feel so good in about 20 minutes when he sees a replay.
Look at that passionless speed as Drew gets into third easily.
Uh, my sense of relief did not include any knowledge of the bad call.
drew: "wtf? i'm on third, you assholes."
Two fucking pop-ups after a leadoff triple? Damn.
O.M.G!
Just saw the replays. The call was horrendous!
He was clearly out - by a foot or more.
And even worse that it came after that absolutely incredible catch by Jackson to keep it alive
i don't now how far the inning went, but they should reverse the call and wipe out the other batters after the #27.
Next batter was out. Game over
Next batter made the third out.
Next batter was out. Players got on Joyce and then Leyland was in his face.
He was in perfect position. I'm always amazed that they usually get those close calls correct, even when it looks different in real time. I don't know what happened here? It's like he wanted to break up the perfecto. Be the story.
Make that THREE pop-ups.
Drew - "No wonder I don't care enough to really try"
fuck it - dice is dealing now.
Interesting, Mrs. G. He sure will be the story.
Maybe his moustache got in the way.
Okay, back to the important game. Keep dealing Dice.
could they get the umps together and reverse the call? they *could* but won't.
BAL - 000 001
MFY - 402 00
FKR - 000 010 0
TOR - 110 000
How about this. 7th inning and Dice is still in there. No walks. 78 out of 100 pitches have been strikes.
Is there a slight warming of the ice in Amy's heart.
Oh, that's just the cosmo :)
ack - you may have jinxed the no-no.
Somehow there should be some appeal process when a call is that blatantly wrong.
LOL, SoSock! Yes, I am feeling some warmth, likely the cosmo. But I have to admit he has been pretty sharp as the game has progressed.
bard has been up
I should have kept my mouth shut.
Nice outing by Dice.
Now get him the fuck outta there!
Bring on Shakespeare!
Have I.....nevermind
Whew, just foul each way.
K!
Nice slider.
dice: 6.2-10-3-0-7, 109
thx
In just 15 minutes you could score a hell of a lot of insurance runs.... with or without Geico.
Bust out Petey!
FY RBI!!!
There it is!
Hells yeah!
Nice to see FY being gritty.
why does the oak tv have bos up 6-3?
isn't it 5?
Been a while since we've seen this :)
Maybe Oak TV knows Youk will get a hit?
My son is listening to the Tigers postgame. They said that Joyce admitted it was the wrong call.
5 - yep
So it will be Drew who drives in the 6th run.
And what does that admission do for the pitcher, the record books? Is there no recourse?
I just heard the press conference. Joyce's comments:
No, I had a great angle on it. I just missed the damn call. I missed it. I missed it from here to the...wall. I really thought I got the call right. I thought he beat the play. I thought he beat him to the bag. I thought he beat it. At that moment...
Now that I'm standing here and I've seen it on the replay...I missed it, I missed it.
Clarifying - Been a while since we've seen Papi with the IBB.
Or at least it's been a while since I'VE seen it.
GDGD - "in play - no outs". Me - "yay!" Then it goes on to describe a routine fielder's choice.
pffffft
bot up
93 mph change. You gotta love it.
top 9 for tampa
jays 2, rays 1
K-ust
SoSock, GDGD should say out(s) and run(s). That would help.
And yet...despite that? No recourse? No way for MLB to correct such an obvious mistake?
Sometimes I hate baseball.
The slider that got Cust was probably high, but still very nasty.
Fucking Tampa tied it up.
top 9 for tampa
jays 2, rays 1
I'm not watching. Let me know when it is over.
Are you serious? They tied up the game. Damn, they really are hard to beat.
they are tough -- but the jays suck ass.
When I first heard the crowd chanting Beat LA, I thought perhaps they thought that Oakland was in Los Angeles.
Tampa's up 3-2 and looking for more.
That occurred to me, too, Amy.
Post a Comment