Josh Beckett gets the rock for the first game of the season at Fenway. Comment away.
42 replies on “Obstruct This: Fenway Rays-Sox Gamer I”
Cody Ross kills the rally. I’m happy to get 3 runs there, but we should have gotten more.
But he atoned somewhat with a nice catch afterwards.
Price is out already? Good news since it’s Game 1 of this series, let’s wear down that bullpen.
Oh my god, Jacoby looked in some serious pain there.
What happened, pbe? I’m watching the gameday at work.
He went on the 3-2, grounder to short, he tried to take out Brignac who fell over Ellsbury and landed on his shoulder. Ellsbury’s out of the game with what I’m sure is a serious injury.
Seven pitch 1-2-3 for Beckett.
Wonderful.
Nine pitches for Beckett this time. He looks so much better than he did in Detroit.
The way Shoppach flops into second base he’s in danger of getting hurt without anybody falling on him.
Asshole Luke Scott flies out. Beckett at 82 pitches after 7. Still no world on Ellsbury.
Red Sox have announced that Ellsbury has a “right shoulder injury”. As if we couldn’t have guessed.
Trying very hard to think of any silver lining to Ellsbury’s injury. Maybe if he’s out for a long time it’ll make it easier for the Sox to re-sign him…? I give up – this sucks. Hell of a thing to spoil an otherwise encouraging game.
Maybe he will not be out for a long time. But I’m not optimistic.
Great start to the season for Youk.
Davis strikes out the side. Just a random thought, well into game 7 of the season: wasn’t there a time when this team used to hit the occasional home run?
Nice catch, Darnell.
Beckett K’s Pena. His first strike-out today. Extraordinary.
Another 1-2-3 inning. Beckett at 94 pitches. Let him get his own save.
Wall-ball double for Darnell. Insurance?
Bases full. Nobody out. Shoppach up.
Two run double. Great!!
Sweeney bloops one over the infield. Two more runs. Hooray!
Infield hit for Pedey.
He’s also taken to diving into first. Stoopid.
Now everything falls. Gonzalez gets jammed but muscles it to short left. Bases loaded again. Still nobody out.
Youk grounds it up the middle. Two more. 10-1.
Papi double. 11-1. Youk safe at third.
Darnell nearly gets hit. Ball 4. Loaded again. Nobody out, by the way.
We may not see an inning like this again all season.
Long fly by Ross. Youk scores. One out.
Aviles singles. Loaded again.
Shoppach pops it up. Two down.
I had the same thought that Peter Abraham had on twitter: take that, run differential!
Sweeney flies out. Inning over.
Pesky pole homer for Zobrist after Melancon puts one right over the middle of the plate.
Nice win. Hope Jacoby is alright. Or at least not badly hurt.
Pete Abes saying Ellsbury out 6-8 weeks.
Shit.
Gordo says Che-Hsuan Lin expected to be recalled when Ells goes on the DL.
Rosenthal’s comment is that he could be a good fit for the Sox since he only has a minor league deal with the Phillies.
Oh well – I’ve got dibs on the injury excuse when the Sox finish 3rd or 4th in the East. Just wanted to make sure I called it now so when we use it later in the season we don’t get heat for it…
42 replies on “Obstruct This: Fenway Rays-Sox Gamer I”
Cody Ross kills the rally. I’m happy to get 3 runs there, but we should have gotten more.
But he atoned somewhat with a nice catch afterwards.
Price is out already? Good news since it’s Game 1 of this series, let’s wear down that bullpen.
Oh my god, Jacoby looked in some serious pain there.
What happened, pbe? I’m watching the gameday at work.
He went on the 3-2, grounder to short, he tried to take out Brignac who fell over Ellsbury and landed on his shoulder. Ellsbury’s out of the game with what I’m sure is a serious injury.
Seven pitch 1-2-3 for Beckett.
Wonderful.
Nine pitches for Beckett this time. He looks so much better than he did in Detroit.
The way Shoppach flops into second base he’s in danger of getting hurt without anybody falling on him.
Asshole Luke Scott flies out. Beckett at 82 pitches after 7. Still no world on Ellsbury.
Red Sox have announced that Ellsbury has a “right shoulder injury”. As if we couldn’t have guessed.
Trying very hard to think of any silver lining to Ellsbury’s injury. Maybe if he’s out for a long time it’ll make it easier for the Sox to re-sign him…? I give up – this sucks. Hell of a thing to spoil an otherwise encouraging game.
Maybe he will not be out for a long time. But I’m not optimistic.
Great start to the season for Youk.
Davis strikes out the side. Just a random thought, well into game 7 of the season: wasn’t there a time when this team used to hit the occasional home run?
Nice catch, Darnell.
Beckett K’s Pena. His first strike-out today. Extraordinary.
Another 1-2-3 inning. Beckett at 94 pitches. Let him get his own save.
Wall-ball double for Darnell. Insurance?
Bases full. Nobody out. Shoppach up.
Two run double. Great!!
Sweeney bloops one over the infield. Two more runs. Hooray!
Infield hit for Pedey.
He’s also taken to diving into first. Stoopid.
Now everything falls. Gonzalez gets jammed but muscles it to short left. Bases loaded again. Still nobody out.
Youk grounds it up the middle. Two more. 10-1.
Papi double. 11-1. Youk safe at third.
Darnell nearly gets hit. Ball 4. Loaded again. Nobody out, by the way.
We may not see an inning like this again all season.
Long fly by Ross. Youk scores. One out.
Aviles singles. Loaded again.
Shoppach pops it up. Two down.
I had the same thought that Peter Abraham had on twitter: take that, run differential!
Sweeney flies out. Inning over.
Pesky pole homer for Zobrist after Melancon puts one right over the middle of the plate.
Nice win. Hope Jacoby is alright. Or at least not badly hurt.
Pete Abes saying Ellsbury out 6-8 weeks.
Shit.
Gordo says Che-Hsuan Lin expected to be recalled when Ells goes on the DL.
And Edes makes it seem like 6-8 weeks is a best case scenario: http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/red-sox/post/_/id/18190/best-guess-for-ells-6-weeks-minimum
Worst news yet – Ken Rosenthal “reports” that the Red Sox may be interested in Scott Podsednik to fill in for Ellsbury: http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/04/east-links-red-sox-carroll-podsednik-izzy-a-rod.html
Rosenthal’s comment is that he could be a good fit for the Sox since he only has a minor league deal with the Phillies.
Oh well – I’ve got dibs on the injury excuse when the Sox finish 3rd or 4th in the East. Just wanted to make sure I called it now so when we use it later in the season we don’t get heat for it…