Loving this afternoon baseball. Loving it!
Tim Wakefield takes his amazing flutterball to the hill against Francisco Liriano, who is still trying to be both healthy and effective simultaneously for the first time since that amazing first half in 2006. I probably jinxed Wakefield with this post title, so to compensate I'll invite you to comment away as Wakefield gets rocked for eight runs in 1.2 innings.
Apparently, the Sox’s 3rd choice at CF is none other than Bill Hall.
Is Cameron okay, or are they just giving him a day off?
Just realized my office blocks mlb.tv, but not the mlb audio! This is better than gameday by itself.
Apparently Scutaro just made an amazing play.
Yes, it was an amazing play. Beltre dove to his left but couldn’t get it. Scutara blocked it, got up and made the throw. That’s the D we’ve been promised.
Apparently Cameron has a strained abdominal thingy.
Ouch, lame.
And apparently the knuckler isn’t knuckling anymore. Hall made an error at CF.
Three hits in a row now for the Twins. Hall has trouble scooping up the ball and Kubel makes it to third. 1-0 Twins.
Let’s hope for the Red Sox’s sake either Ellsbury or Cameron come back soon.
Or they call up a viable defensive CFer.
Feels like all runs given up by the Sox so far this season have come with two outs.
Inning over, thank god.
Lucky to have gotten out of that inning relatively unscathed. And only at 29 pitches, too.
Hermida looks much better in the outfield than Hall so far.
Ugh Martinez makes another throwing error.
Hall misplays another ball. Another twins threat.
Liriano is cruising, at least since the third.
Wow Liriano is destroying us now.
The wheels starting to fall off. 2-0 Twins.
Beltre error. Bad throw.
Holy crap. The Sox had Span caught in a rundown, but then Scutaro drops the ball… which not only prevent an out, but allows the runner at 3rd to score.
Sox are just playing terrible baseball to start the season. This series has been ug-lee.
Wasn’t exactly a great throw to second from Martinez either. Like in the Yankee game he probably should have held the ball.
3 errors today, and it should really be 4. Glad I’m only listening to it instead of watching.
Looks like the umpire doesn’t know how to judge a strikezone after all the knuckleballs. First two pitches to Mauer are very good, but called balls.
The only thing that would make this game any better is to pinch hit Ortiz, and let Papelbon mop up. This way, all of my favorite players get into the game.
Oh, let Varitek in too – just for loyalty’s sake and all.
I really can’t remember every not liking so many players who play for the Sox.
Why Wakefield is even on this team anymore I’ll never know, but I’ve been saying that for four years now, and then he goes on a five or six game stretch that he’s unhittable, and people just fall right back in love with the guy.
League-average (or better!) pitching for 9 straight seasons for only 4 million a year? Averages 176 innings per year? I know you don’t like watching him play, but surely you can objectively agree that he’s one of the best values in baseball.
Not sure Wakefield. The trouble started in the 5th with a Texas Leaguer that barely stayed fair. The defense hasn’t really helped and they could not get anything going against Liriano anyway.
And as I’m typing Kubel robs Lowell of a base hit.
Wakefield seemed to have a good day, but he was really victimized by the defense out there.
Meanwhile, Schoeneweis continues to be impressive.
Mysteriously Lariano insists on walking Hall for a second time today.
Oh, and my post before the last one should read: Not sure Wakefield is the main culprit here …
Sorry.
Not that the walk to Hall matters.
Meanwhile, Schoeneweis continues to be impressive.
Posted by: Paul SF | Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 03:01 PM
Turbo-jinx of the highest degree
Man, I need to stop complimenting the Sox’ pitchers.