July 19, 2011

G95: Orioles 6, Red Sox 2

Red Sox - 000 020 000 - 2  8  0
Orioles - 021 000 03x - 6  8  0
Jarrod Saltalamacchia's two-run homer in the fifth brought the Red Sox to within one run, but Boston managed only two base runners over the final four innings -- singles from Josh Reddick (with two outs in the sixth) and Marco Scutaro (with two outs in the seventh; caught stealing) -- and neither of them advanced to second.

After Jeremy Guthrie (7-8-2-1-4, 110) departed, Jim Johnson retired all six batters he faced (the top six in the order), allowing only one ball out of the infield. The Red Sox lost for only the third time in their last 16 games. They are 13-3 since June 30, and remain 1.5 GA ahead of the Yankees, who lost to the Rays 3-2.

The Orioles padded their lead in the eighth, when, with two outs, Alfredo Aceves walked Matt Weiters on four pitches, and then gave up back-to-back home runs to Derrek Lee and Mark Reynolds. It was Baltimore's first B2B HRs of the year.

Kyle Weiland (6-6-3-3-2, 100) did pretty well in his second major league start. After a quick first inning, he allowed two leadoff singles and a double to Reynolds in Baltimore's two-run second. With two gone in the third, Weiland walked Nick Markakis and gave up singles to Adam Jones and Wieters.

The Orioles snapped a seven-game losing streak against the Red Sox this season, and are now 3-7 against Boston. ...Dustin Pedroia singled in the first inning, extending his hitting streak to 17 games and his on-base streak to 29 games. ... Reddick went 3-for-4, with a double and a run scored, and is batting .367. ... Adrian Gonzalez (0-for-4) is 2-for-24 since the Break.
Example
Kyle Weiland / Jeremy Guthrie

Weiland has been ejected from every major league game of his career. Can he keep his streak alive?

Guthrie has a 6.96 ERA in six games (five starts) since June 21. The one relief appearance was 3.1 innings against the Red Sox on July 10.

AL East: Yankees/Rays at 7 PM.

66 comments:

allan said...

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

allan said...

Pedroia has reached base (H, BB or HBP) in 28 straight games. Youkilis has a 26-game streak.

Jere said...

We beat this franchise 1-0 exactly 64 years ago today. Their manager's name? Muddy.

(Birdie Tebbets went 0 for 4.)

johngoldfine said...

Funny if KW were ejected again!

tim said...

Beach! right now!

(picton, on - sandbanks prov park)

Just finished work near here, time to enjoy some sun, sand and listen to some baseball!

allan said...

Mu gut tells me that we'll be stuck with MASN tonight. (NESN last night and probably NESN in the day game tomorrow...)

allan said...

NESN My gut is wrong!

tim said...

Baseball on the beach!

allan said...

beach
baseball

... & beverage?

tim said...

But of course! Also bought some local prince Edward county wines to bring home.

Kathryn said...

There is nothing better than sitting on the beach watching the waves come in. Unless, of course, it is accompanied by baseball and beer!

allan said...

i assume angle takes good routes to fly balls?

allan said...

come on, don, jones wasn't going to try to score. jeez.

Kathryn said...

We just received a beautiful orchid. Now let's see if I can keep it alive. Any flower people out there?

laura k said...

Keep your orchid alive

The marvels of Google

laura k said...

More how to keep your orchid alive

Rob said...

Remy doesn't know what a valedictorian is...

allan said...

don sounded stumped too - laura thought maybe the truck told him.

laura k said...

Yeah, that tell-tale pause makes me think he got the answer in his ear.

Maxwell Horse said...

It seems that whenever I take a peek at this game the Orioles are always batting. Probably just a coincidence.

allan said...

SATALADONGIA!!!!!!!!!!

Jere said...

NaCl + HR = Salty Dong

laura k said...

Probably just a coincidence.

What are the other options?

Jere said...

Could be a conspiracy

Amy said...

Hi, all.

Maxwell Horse said...

The other options are that the Sox were not working the count and that Weiland is not the most economical pitcher.

Jere said...

The HR Derby talk is all hearsay. Right? I heard someone say that the HR Derby winners more often than not have a better second half. I think it's one of those things where you see it happen a few times and you therefore think it happens "all the time." Like the Yanks not being able to beat a pitcher they've never seen before.

allan said...

remy offering the "HR derby made gonzalez slump" bullshit.

Jere said...

Phils down 2-0 early. If we win and they lose, we've got the best record in baseball.

johngoldfine said...

Commercials on GDGD--is that new? Missed the first out anyway.

allan said...

people have looked at who participates and how they did before and after the HR derby. no correlation at all, generally. one or two players might screw themselves up, but that would be personally. everything that is in the media mentions it as an overall thing.

Kathryn said...

Whew. Back from a phone call with my daughter...but still watching. Salty!!!

L, thanks for the orchid links. I could have done that, huh? One of the suggestions in those links is to boil your water before watering the flower. I don't think that's going to happen.

There was such a long pause after the valedictorian question that I bet you are right, the truck told him.

allan said...

when weiland is done, he should call the ump a motherfucker to keep his ejection streak alive...

laura k said...

I vote for conspiracy.

laura k said...

Kat, Allan thought my "marvels of Google" comment was snarky, so just in case you thought so, too, it wasn't. :)

Orchids are amazing. Seeing someone's photos of an orchid garden in Hawaii made me want to go there.

allan said...

not having the red sox bat may be about the only way the orioles can win.

Amy said...

Runs, please. Time to score another 8.

Jere said...

TB has loaded, one out, 7th

Amy said...

I did not mean that THEY were supposed to score runs....

laura k said...

Bah. It's a little late in the game for that.

Rob said...

Aaaaaand that happened.

Kathryn said...

well, that sucks.

Amy said...

DAMN

allan said...

our task has become a bit more difficult.

as aceves gets his potatoes mashed.

laura k said...

That's enough of that

Maxwell Horse said...

No problem. Sox can win this with the proverbial bloop and a bloop and a bloop and a bloop and a blast.

Jere said...

oooh baby...... Rays tie it then take the lead

allan said...

i prefer a blast and a blast and a blast and a blast and a blast ...

Amy said...

Well, Aceves could not be that good forever, could he?

Amy said...

Well, if the Yankees lose, this will not be as annoying

Maxwell Horse said...

"i prefer a blast and a blast and a blast and a blast and a blast ..."

I like to keep things more realistic.

Jere said...

Fast of Tammuz Day miracle?

allan said...

sadly, i think an out and an out and an out is the most realistic.

Amy said...

Yucky clean water in MD

laura k said...

Drinkable water

laura k said...

Ah well, still in first

allan said...

switched over to the rays game. CF camera seems to be on a rooftop about 5 miles from the park.

(which is tough to do in a dome...)

Jere said...

We're still 7 runs away from 80,000 in franchise history.

allan said...

DP gets Rays out of the 8th, TB 3-2.

Jere said...

Huge DP hit into by Cano. We're three outs away.

Jere said...

Stupid GD insisting the first batter of the inning is up but there's one out.

allan said...

peralta called for quick-pitching to dumbo.

2 OUTS

allan said...

maybe it's the shadows on his helmet, but it looks like russell martin has a hitler mustache

allan said...

MFY LOSE!

Jere said...

1.5 up

Jere said...

Martin definitely has some kind of stache