Red Sox - 000 000 040 - 4 10 0 Orioles - 000 310 01x - 5 10 0The Red Sox erased Baltimore's 4-0 lead in a span of four batters, against a trio of Orioles relievers. But Daniel Bard (seemingly in an eye-blink) allowed three consecutive singles in the bottom of the inning, and the Orioles won the second game of the series 5-4.
Jacoby Ellsbury singled to right off Jeremy Accardo (on an 0-2 pitch) to start the top of the eighth inning and Dustin Pedroia walked. Lefty Clay Rapada came in and Adrian Gonzalez smacked his full-count pitch to left for an RBI single. Buck Showalter then called on Koji Uehara, who promptly surrendered a three-run home run to Kevin Youkilis.
After that game-tying rally, Boston's prospects seemed bright, so the Baltimore eighth was pure annoyance and frustration. Nick Markakis grounded a hard single into right and took second when Derrek Lee lined a hit to left. Bard's first pitch to Vlad Guerrero got away from Jason Varitek for a passed ball and the runners advanced to second and third.
Bard's next pitch was in the dirt and Vlad swung and missed, but the ball again got by Varitek. Markaskis raced home, and Varitek shovelled the ball to Bard, who was covering the plate. It didn't look like Bard had a shot at a tag, but his left foot was perfectly placed to block Markakis's left hand from reaching the dish, and Bard was able to tag him out!
Lee took third on that play, and there was still only one out, but it felt like Boston had dodged a big bullet. Then Vlad lined the next pitch into center field and Lee trotted home with the go-ahead run.
Facing Kevin Gregg in the ninth, Marco Scutaro (hitting for Varitek) flied out to right, Ellsbury popped to third, and Pedroia grounded to third. Nine pitches, and the game was over.
Beckett (6-7-4-0-4, 92) allowed three runs in a span of only seven pitches in the fourth. Lee doubled, and Luke Scott and Adam Jones hit back-to-back home runs. (Lee's double was actually a very catchable pop fly to short right center. Pedroia seemed ready and able to grab it, but he peeled away at the very last second and the ball dropped closest to Ellsbury.) Two singles, a wild pitch, and a sac fly scored another Oriole run in the fifth inning.
In addition to Yook's dong, the other bright spots for the Sox were: Ellsbury's double and two singles, two hits each from Gonzalez and David Ortiz, and a single and two walks from J.D. Drew.
Beckett has made four starts this season, and his last three have been excellent; he has allowed only three runs in 23 innings (1.17 ERA), with five walks and 24 strikeouts. Opposing batters are hitting .107/.173/.173.
After bottoming out with a .156 average and .229 OBP on April 10, Jacoby Ellsbury has hit .267/.340/.533 in 50 plate appearances. ... Jason Varitek gets the nod behind the plate tonight. After starting only three of Boston's first 12 games, he has started seven of the last 11 games.
The Red Sox hit Guthrie very well. Among David Ortiz's 10 hits against Guthire are five doubles and three home runs.
AL East: White Sox/Yankees at 7 PM; Blue Jays/Rangers and Rays/Twins at 8 PM.
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Ellsbury, CF
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Drew, RF
Lowrie, SS
Crawford, LF
Varitek, C
The Globe's Mark Leccese shares his feelings about being swamped by the huge amount of sports coverage these days. He mentions (and links to) JoS:
"There are amateur blogs (Boston Sports Journal, Joy of Sox, Toeing the Rubber and Zuri Berry, just to name four) and so many professional blogs I'm not even going to try to count. Boston.com alone has nineteen (scroll down) sports blogs."
Sitting at home I watched Dodgers/Marlins and some of Brewers/Reds, both went into extra innings. Do you have on hand the % of regular season games that go 10 or more innings?
Brian Roberts 2B
Nick Markakis RF
Derrek Lee 1B
Vladimir Guerrero DH
Luke Scott LF
Adam Jones CF
Mark Reynolds 3B
Matt Wieters C
Robert Andino SS
For the last few years, roughly 8% of 9% of games went into extras.
2007: 215 of 2431: 8.84%
2008: 210 of 2428: 8.65%
Mid-2009: 91 of 1016: 8.96%
Dodgers: Andre Ethier extended his hitting streak to 24 games.
Those stats are amazingly consistent, thanks for looking that up.
Hit Guthrie very well - after the first 8 innings of his career - don't forget - he was the starter in the Mothers Day Miracle - Was it just me or did the Sox seem like they were sleep walking last night?
Remy replaced tonight by...Rick Dempsey! Maybe he'll slide across the booth on his belly.
MASN = mute.
Damn, NESN does not have the game and NESN Plus doesn't either.
STUPID HOCKEY.
We figure that's why we have not been getting NESN at all, because the Sox are on some NESN+ or whatever.
OK, here it is. Phew.
Amy - NESN PLUS FOR THE GAME!!!
Which means I am not much of a Bruins fan ....
NESN - has the bruins (hey they do own a percentage of NESN don't forget)
For some reason NESN Plus did not start at exactly 7 pm so I panicked!
Dempsey: "I wish we had [Pedroia]."
Are there any O's fans at the park? It's so empty, and the cheering for that hit was pretty loud.
The NY State Thruway is CLOSED, Guthrie! Getting good Wood off this guy whether his pitches are Arlo or high.
goddamn. should be up 2-0 minimum.
A wasted opportunity.
They strand two. Why not a pair?
so they open up the Warehouse to fans? NESN showed a shot from up there and there were people with beers looking out the window.
Creat Catch
nice catch, but where is the high 5 to the fan?
2 straight no-hitters Beckett's lost on balls to the mound that hit his glove.
Yes! Orsillo mentions Dempsey's belly slide in the 1st inning! They better break out the video.
I remember watching him do that when I was a teenager. I'm sure Don does too.
Vlad:
Now 88 PA & 0 BB
Dempsey showing "on fire" some love - yeah boy
What happened to Remy? Is he OK? I got home just in time for the 2nd pitch of the game, but missed the open.
nice catch, but where is the high 5 to the fan?
:)
I was thinking this last night as someone was making a catch. He was drifting back to the wall, and I'm yelling at the TV, "High five the fan! It doesn't count if there's no high five!"
Guess I was right that there are more Sox fans than O's fans there.
Diehard, Don said Jerry is under the weather. I hope nothing serious.
Lots of love for Tek from Dempsey. :)
I also liked how he recognized how hard the catcher's job is. Part of why I am such a catcher fan.
Any word about how Ellsbury and Yook are getting along this year?
CWS - 000
MFY - 300
"I also liked how he recognized how hard the catcher's job is. "
Q: How do you know when the announcer's a former catcher?
A: He'll let ya know.
Doesn't mean he isn't telling the truth!
Lowrie is due, but always think he's due for a hit.
Article about the lost Blackhawk winning puck mentions Mientkiewicz and the saga of the '04 WS ball.
Ortiz so dead.
Damn, Papi!
Why is he looking at the ball???
Wickid bummah
yeah, 2 outs and all, but FUCK YOU BOGAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WTF - fire that 3rd base coach
Hey all. I'm just in from dinner with the girls. I wasn't happy to hear the missed opportunity in the first...and now this.
Score some runs next inning.
Did Beckett just give Ellsbury the evil eye?
lackey would have been down on his hands and knees throwing a fit.
thanks, vlad, for that important out.
Dempsey: "I remember Dwight Evans, game on the line, bases loaded, and I picked him off third base."
Not so fast, Rick. It was second and third, and it was 1-1 in the FIFTH. (9/8/79--this has to be the game he meant)
(Weird, that game was on my birthday, and while looking it up, Dempsey said how the ball girl got hit in the face. I looked up and said "WHO got hit in the face?" and Kim walks through the room, hears me, and not knowing the context, says, "Bryce Florie." That play also was on my birthday, 9/8/2000.)
Gave him the Lackeye
ARGGGH
scott doesn't let the release of obama's birth certificate get him down....
I stepped out of the room for a second, and we're down 2-0
I take a moment to write about being down 2-0 and we're down 3-0
Did Beckett's ERA just triple?
salty could have called those pitches.
why is there no talk of a replay?
okay, i know this is in the "asking a lot" file, but i HAVE seen major leaguers climb fences, and I'm just sayin', Carl had enough time to at least get a foot up on that wall, grab the top of it, pull himself up, or whatever.
I really want to get to .500 sooner than later.
came back to the room and masn is showing beckett jawing with the ump about not getting calls guthrie is getting (i assume)
look - a young man with no legs! yay, useless war!
beckett looked hot enough to get tossed, but i don't think he was. still on bench
Hey Mom, look what I found. Ugh.
nice work, salty.
needed that shit
runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs runs
beckett allowed those 4 runs in the span of 15 pitches.
first 3 runs came in a group of 7 pitches.
Did Scott do something after his home run?
Dale Arnold suggesting he might get intentionally plunked.
Beckett's WHIP on the year still only 0.85.
argh, close but not close enough
Maybe we can get to their bullpen??
"Did Scott do something after his home run?"
Flipped bat, Josh glared at him as he went around the bases
Dempsey: "middle in"
You're supposed to be replacing Remy, not imitating him!
Dem-dawg?
rally time.
(wake up)
I'm traumatized by the 2-10 start. Seeing this sad lack of offense makes me want to curl up and moan pathetically.
I feel like the appearance of Wakefield means the game is over, one way or another.
Still I listen and hope.
that last half-inning of "battng" was sadder than seeing wakefield.
I remember the O's doing this several times last year...squelching momentum as we were making a run.
top of the order in the 8th...
This is our best chance. Here we go, runs!
Adrian is due. Gotta bust out of his 6HR pace.
Dempsey out, Cafardo in.
wow, now i am THRILLED i have masn.
This has the feel of a rally.
the table has been set
Yeah but Cafardo's a low talker, and with the crowd loud, I haven't understood a word he's said.
This guy gave up 3 runs to the MFY in 1/3 of an inning. Called up from Norfolk. Let's GO!!
He really is a low talker.
4-1. Now tie it Weaver-style.
Nice! Keep it going, boys!
YES!!!!AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
KEEP THE FAITH!!!
YOOOOK! Finally!
Weaver Style, hahahaha!!!
On that first swing, I told my husband that Youk just can't hit the ball right now. WOW!!
YOOOUUUKKK
SULTAN OF SWEAT
I love how Don watches a CLOSE-UP of the ball landing in FRONT of the seat in the front row and calls it "the third row."
ALL RIGHT! WE HAVE A BALL GAME!
Guess we needed Dempsey to leave the broadcast booth.
cafardo droning on and on and on...and i still haven't heard a word of it
count your blessings....
play it like you've got a lead, Tito
I emerge from student conferences to this Youky good news.
Bard in!
Cafardo---just below my hearing range. :)
Come on, Bard. CUT IT OUT.
0-2 bard, come on!
meaning, Come on, how could leave a pitch over the plate on GD 0-2
insult to injury, another tied hockey game. does any hockey game MOT go overtime? I was 2 minutes away from getting HD baseball.
Tekalamacchia...
sigh...
friggin cactus
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS
Whoa...
holy shit what a play! Bard (I assume) blocks the plate!
INcredible
The fake passed ball play is a gamble but it payed off this time.
blocks the plate withhis left foot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yup, left foot blocked it. oh fuck you
GODDAMNIT
deflating ........
Can he catch??
Oh crap.
hey look, bard retired a batter.
okay ...
tek and the top of the order.
Oy, this has been a rollercoaster.
better get a full glass of "rally juice".
time for another useless horrible home run, lyndon
PH and the top of the order then I assume.
This is exasperating...
Good night. Can we avoid a sweep please?
CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP
Stinky clean water.
Orioles whip out the britta filter
F
And the pitcher who served up Yook's dong gets the win!
blocks the plate withhis left foot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanted to say maybe he could be our new catcher, but before I could even appreciate that play the game sucked again. Grrr!
2 straight to the damn Orioles?
Really?
Oh well, we all know you're going to lose a couple in a row once in a while.But did it have to be to the damn Orioles? We should killl them every time we play them
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