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June 12, 2011

G65: Red Sox 14, Blue Jays 1

Red Sox   - 102 063 001 - 14 17  0
Blue Jays - 000 100 000 -  1  2  0
The Red Sox battered the Jays for the second day in a row, sweeping the three-game series by a combined score of 35-6 (and out-hitting them 46-12). Today's rout was Boston's ninth consecutive win. They are 6-0 on the current road trip -- and have scored 10+ runs in three of their last five games -- and now head to Tampa Bay for three games, beginning on Tuesday.

Lester (8-2-1-1-8, 102) was brilliant, allowing only a home run to Jose Bautista with two outs in the fourth, a single up the middle to Edwin Encarnacion in the fifth, and a full-count walk to Encarnacion in the eighth. Michael Bowden pitched a perfect ninth.

Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz hit home runs in the fifth, as the first seven Boston hitters reached base and the Red Sox scored five times before making an out. Kevin Youkilis, who reached base in five of his six trips to the plate, hit a two-run bomb in the ninth.

With his first inning home run, Adrian Gonzalez continued his career-high streak of games with at least one hit and one RBI to nine. ... Since the beginning of May, Ortiz leads with majors with 30 extra-base hits and 15 homers. He's hitting .360 with 32 RBIs over that span.

Like yesterday, it was a team effort with one exception:

Ellsbury: 2 singles, 3 runs, 1 walk (10-game hit streak)
Pedroia: home run, 2 RBI, 2 walks
Gonzalez: double, home run, 2 runs, 2 RBI
Youkilis: single, double, home run, 2 walks, 3 runs, 4 RBI
Ortiz: double, home run, 2 runs, 4 RBI
Crawford: single, run
Saltalamacchia: 2 singles, double, walk, RBI
Drew: 0-for-5, 4 K
Scutaro: single, double, walk, run, RBI

Drew Sutton had a double off the bench; Mike Cameron was 0-for-2.
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Jon Lester / Kyle Drabek

AL East: Cleveland/Yankees at 1 PM and Rays/Orioles at 1:30 PM.

97 comments:

  1. Ellsbury, CF
    Pedroia, 2B
    Gonzalez, 1B
    Youkilis, 3B
    Ortiz, DH
    Crawford, LF
    Saltalamacchia, C
    Drew, RF
    Scutaro, SS

    Escobar, SS
    Patterson, LF
    Bautista, RF
    Lind, 1B
    Arencibia, C
    Encarnacion, DH
    Hill, 2B
    Davis, CF
    Nix, 3B

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  2. Just tuned into this one - right down to business, I see!

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  3. Afternoon. Getting excited at the prospect of seeing the chaps in a fortnight....

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  4. BTW, I downloaded all the Retrosheet game log data. They store the home and visiting linescores directly, in two fields. When I'm a little less crunched with work I'll write a few Perl programs to crawl through the stuff...finding palindromic linescores, etc. will be very easy.

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  5. Anyone else having trouble posting comments today? I am getting "Service unavailable 503" intermittently. :(

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  6. i have gotten that when trying to go to blogger in general. i try again and there is no problem. not sure what that is.

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  7. LOL - oh, sure, that one makes it through! I forget what I was trying to say in the previous ones.

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  8. It did take me 2 tries to update my profile pic, but then I closed my browser and came back and it did it again. Whatever, seems to be OK now. Never mind!

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  9. lester with 15 pitches thru 2!

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  10. Pile the runs on while they figure Lester out.

    i have no desire to shave in the shower, Swisher.

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  11. 28 pitches through 3. He's brilliant today!

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  12. Lord: We missed Jake at wmtc6 yesterday...

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  13. Well, there goes the perfect game, no-hitter, and shutout. But it was close - Jacoby almost had a shot at it.

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  14. Jays annc: "That's what the fans come to see."

    That's sadly true. Not to see a win, but some HRs.

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  15. He's asleep on the sofa at the moment. Leave him be!

    Could that damn Cleveland team score some runs....

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  16. 92 coming in, 192 going out!!!!!!!

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  17. FY!

    I think this young pitcher may be sitting very soon.

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  18. triple for the 4-batter cycle, pls

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  19. I see we have a Lord in the house. Where/when are you seeing the Sox, LL?

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  20. That's what they've come to see.....

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  21. LL: Not quite the same ... :>)

    (P.S. When did the Jays trade for Posada?)

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  22. 26 June in Pittsburgh. Assuming they keep to the 5 man rotation and no injuries I think I get Josh.

    A slight possibility we see the Jays v Pirates on 29 June, but very flexible at the moment.

    Bad news is on my last day in the US, I might be at Stade Fasciste. I need to keep my beloved happy.

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  23. To think this master of pessimism had a bad feeling about this nine game road trip.

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  24. Whenever we have a leadoff HR, I always say, Free Money. Love to score before there's enough an out. This like a big sack of free money!

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  25. in 8-game winning streak, sox averaging 8.6 runs per game

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  26. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slldMEPvUqA

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  27. I wonder if they're about to bat around without an out...that would be something.

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  28. LL, sounds great. I'd love to see the new park in Pittsburgh. We saw a game in P'burgh in the awful old football park, and I doubt we'll ever be back there again.

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  29. As predictable as a wet June Sunday in London. Drew ends the riot.

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  30. 5 runs off drabek in this inning on 13 pitches.

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  31. L, it'll be my first ever game in the bleachers. Nearly always sat in the top tier behind home plate.

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  32. that would be something

    That would be a free winning lotto ticket.

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  33. was scutaro called out of the baseline? he was not tagged

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  34. we switched to sox radio, so i heard that, but it didn't look like he wandered off that much. (i.e., not trusting OB)

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  35. and now tito can do whatever he wants with the pen ...

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  36. Between Laura and Lord Lynch, I feel like I need a stop sign in my pic. I just happen to have one from a snow storm this year.

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  37. LL, you might want to bring sunscreen.

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  38. and there is a stop sign behind the plate...

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  39. I didn't notice the stop sign thing, cool.

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  40. CLE - 000 00
    MFY - 001 0

    FKR - 31
    BAL - 20

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  41. Stop!

    I was first.

    Unoriginal addition to a sign, captured in New Smyrna Beach.....

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  42. Tom DePlonty, what's your pic? I feel like I should know it, but I can't quite place it.

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  43. Mine's not original, it's a tribute. About a million Cdns are using it as their Facebook pic right now.

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  44. It's an orrery at the Museum of Science in London.

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  45. Oh cool. I thought it was from a movie, but that's even better.

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  46. It really is very relaxing watching this demolition. Now if only the Cleveland Idiots can turn their game around with bp pitcher Freddy Garcia.

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  47. Oi! Remy. That was my line about three innings ago..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slldMEPvUqA

    They can surrender when they want. Here comes Mr Mercy, JD Drew.

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  48. Christ! I've been running a thread over at Ish's thinking today was the day we wouldn't be threading here. Posting by myself, duh!

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  49. God, JD has been such a rally killer today.

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  50. Sutton in LF for Crawford... Jacoby is surrounded by Drews!

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  51. Maybe a Jay will hit a home run in the final 3 innings so the fans can go home happy.

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  52. So Zen, what were you saying over in your own thread?

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  53. It would be awfully rude of us not to continue piling the runs on.

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  54. Nothing incredibly interesting. I was kind of wondering about the record for most batters who reached before an inning was recorded in an inning.

    Also:

    "Jon Lester has a perfect game going," I muttered to my wife.

    Then? Bautista homer. Ow.

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  55. yes, not scoring for three innings would be a big slump at this point...

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  56. sox radio was wondering about mccoy and if a non-pitcher has ever pitched in two straight games. ... sox need another 6- or 7-spot to make that a possibility.

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  57. CLE - 000 000
    MFY - 001 050

    FKR - 311 0
    BAL - 201 0

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  58. How many members of the Yanks bullpen have you ever heard of before?

    Rivera
    Robertson
    Logan
    Ayala
    Pendleton
    Marquez
    Sanit

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  59. post-party fog:

    sutton's double was the 5th Sox double in the last 12 batters

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  60. Give me 4 chances and I'll probably get the info correct!

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  61. Error loads the bases vs. Yanks with Choo up....

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  62. Rangers have no hits against Twins thru 7.

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  63. Liriano with the potential no-no. Retired the first 19, but there was an error in the 7th, so a Ranger has reached base.

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  64. Atlanta's Tommy Hanson has 11 K's through only six innings vs. Houston.

    The night before last, SF Giant 2B Freddy Sanchez was hurt. GM Sabean made a call, and Bill Hall was in uniform and played in the next day's game.

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  65. BOMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    SULTAN OF SWEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  66. 20 runs in 2 days, 35 runs in 3 days. Not bad. Now the Sox take a day off to celebrate my 50th birthday.

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  67. I feel like telling the Papi what Augustis Gloop's mom told him.

    "Big Papi honey, save some for later"

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  68. lester was getting hugs in the dugout last inning, but no idea who has been up

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  69. Jesus, they can hit........

    The one thing I did notice during this unbeleivable streak is we have possibly the 3 best lefties, in Ellsbury, Gonzalez, and Papi, in all of baseball in one lineup.
    They all have been great.

    The one negative Jed Lowrie had the chance but proved he is not an everyday player..

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  70. Clean sweep, says Jerry? But the water is so dirty!

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  71. 6-0 on the road trip!

    path of destruction heads south through tampa ...

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  72. Beltre breaks up no-hitter.

    Enjoyed it today. Speak soon.

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  73. And Beltre spoils the no-hitter after Liriano spent thirty minutes on the bench.

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  74. Turned off the Sox, then suddenly remembered Liriano. Turned it on and saw Beltre on his way to first and announcers saying it was a hit. So I saw maybe 1 second of it!

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