The rare Wednesday afternoon daytime game (with an even rarer noon start) is about to get underway. The Sox have Kevin Youkilis and J.D. Drew both sitting with minor injuries, so it might be up to Jon Lester to keep this game close. Comment away!
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Sox bat around in the first. The game is about 15 minutes old. I’m not sure I’ve ever seena team bat around so quickly.
Score is 5-0, 2 outs, 2 on.
Drew Sutton w/ first Red Sox hit, RBI. 6-0.
Ells with his second hit of the inning.
8th hit for the Red Sox.
Mitch Talbot clearly was not ready to come off the DL.
This is looking like a gift win.
Pedey with his 2nd hit of the inning. 7-0.
Nine hits for the Sox.
What do I know? Apparently, missing two starters means nothing today. Pedroia with two hits and 3 RBI in the first.
Mercifully, the inning is over.
This is looking like a gift win.
All I can think about is that crazy 19-17 game against Texas when the Sox blew an 11-run lead, and then the game last year when Lester blew a six-run lead.
Be quiet, Paul.
Wow.. what an explosion.
Rough day for Choo. Looks like it might be his second error out there. Crawford at third with his second hit of the game.
Wow. Kearns just made a tremendous catch to rob Pedroia of a double. How that didn’t pop out of his glove when he landed I have no idea.
If he missed it, that would have easily been a two-run double. Pedroia tagged that ball.
crawford is a triple short of the cycle before the start of 5th inning.
thru 5, Lowrie, Cam only Sox without a hit; Ortiz, Salty only Sox with only 1 hit
Tater Time for Papi. 10-0.
One batter into the 6th, the Sox have as many hits as outs (15).
Being able to only covertly Gameday this from work is so painful. Gonna have fun watching the first inning at home tonight!
Um…Salty’s having a heck of a week.
Jesus, this will certainly fix up the Sox’s Pythagorean record.
Sox 7-16 w/ RISP.
It’s fairly amazing that they’ve scored 14 and the game is barely two hours old. They could conceivably finish in less than 3 hours. That first inning *was* a really quick bat-around, though (less than 30 pitches, I think?).
The Sox scored 15 runs last time Lester was pitching. Talk about run support!
Former Royals pitching great Paul Splitorff has died. Another of the great Royals from the 70s and early 80s to die of cancer, w/ Dick Howser and Dan Quisenberry.
At 97 pitches through 6, gotta imagine that’s it for Lester. Good time for Franky Mo to give up his requisite 2 or 3 or 6.
Tony Sipp is on for Cleveland.
Red Sox couldn’t touch him in the early season series.
Woah I didn’t know there was a day game. Just checked and it’s 14-0. Holy shit.
Glad to see Lester is back to his normal form too.
Crawford’s OPS went from .542 to .599.
Ellsbury’s OPS went from .768 to .791
Salty’s OPS went from .667 to .716
Sox should be playing for a sweep.
Rain moving into the Cleveland area.
Ellsbury on base for the 5th time today. Wow.
Toronto is rallying.
Crawford’s OPS went from .542 to .599.
That’s a nice day, but jeez, .599? Gah!
14-2 is your final. Sox get 20 hits.
Here’s one big thing that different from last year – these Sox pound horrible pitching. Last two years they never seemed able to hit poor pitching.
Mike Cameron’s brutal effort on the “double” to right field off Morales was hard to watch. I’m not sure he brings anything of value to the table anymore. If there’s an extended absence from one of the starting outfielders, I think I’d rather throw Reddick out there and give him the experience.
It is hilarious to me that the top highlight in the MLB Gameday video list right now is Duncan’s 2-run single.
Coulda swept ’em but for Bard’s bad Monday, but this ass-kicking was great, and they keep winning series.
Only started without at least 2 hits is Lowrie (0-5, but he scored 2 runs.)
Joe C said the wind got hold of that ball to Cam, Paul.
Cam is a gold glove calibre fielder.
I’m not enamoured with Drew or Cam, but Reddick is too streaky to start every day in the major leagues.
Cameron is terrible. I have seen absolutely nothing from him in two years now. Nothing.
Drew still fields a mean right…field…and at least he can walk. You’d think McDonald would get some starts the way Cameron’s been playing.
Man, these day games sneak up on me. Nice butt kicking.
Another one tomorrow!? Looks like I will miss them again.
The scary machine the Sox seemed poised to be in the off-season seems to be taking shape. If you continue to get the pitching from Beckett (who is in Cy-mode), Lester, and Buccholz that you’re getting, and the line-up finally starts clicking, which it seems to be lately, they are going to be very tough to beat. At least for 3 out of every 5 days!
At least for 3 out of every 5 days!
Like a typical irrational fan, that’s the part I worry about. The Sox are fresh off winning two of three from Cleveland (and they really should have swept that series), but now they have unknown quantity Alfredo Aceves starting against the very good Max Scherzer. Yuck.
Sure, winning three out of five means a .600 winning percentage, which would be just fine, but holes in the rotation are always troublesome.
Ha! Try only 1 out of 5 Paul!!!