Because I care that much, I want to alleve Yankee fans’ fears by pointing out the current Red Sox roation:
- Curt Schilling (Money)
- Josh Beckett (Sometimes Money)
- No one.
- Jon Lester (Money, But Only With the Bases Loaded)
- Kyle Snyder (‘Nuff ‘Ced)
Wakefield had a bone scan today. No word on the results yet. In case it wasn’t before, it’s officially time for Theo to finagle a miracle and get an actual quality starter, not a Livan Hernandez "innings-eater," which is really just a euphamism for "can suck for all nine innings."
Tonight, it’s the boy wonder against the Royals. If he can squirm out of 35 walks a game against the White Sox, surely he should manage a win against the Royals, right? Please, God, let it be so.
Comment away!
It is go time for Lester. We need a good game from him, 7 innings would be nice. No heart attacks or self induced pain by getting the bases loaded to pull his best Houdini impressions tonight.
Pena and Van Buren up, Harris and Javy Lopez down. We could use a couple Pena bombs to forget that Bronson Arroyo trade.
Exactly. We finally have a power hitter we can tap into. Granted that there is much difference in his strike out performances to that of his power shots. We finally have a big bat to put in the 5 spot at times to try and protect Manny better than he has been.
Shee-it. I will be out at dinner tonight so have to monitor the game via blackberry. Two in a row would be nice…
I also like Van Buren. He has had some rough innings, but he is another of our good young arms.
Underway baby!
Groundout to start
Alright Lester. A four pitch walk to the second hitter does not make me feel warm.
Strike out to Grud(whatever the hell)alanek.
Brown goes down on strikes. Lester pitches good that inning except for the 2nd hitter.
Youk grounds out to 1st to start us off. Maybe, just maybe he needs to head down the batting order for a few games to clear his head. This slump is hurting the offense.
I feel better about Wily Mo and Jermaine being here — particularly since it’s at the cost of Lopez and Harris.
The strikeout of Thome will be one of those end-of-season top moments for the Red Sox season, but Lopez didn’t do much for us otherwise. I think Riske would have been better…
Loretta goes down looking at strike three go over the plate.
It’s clear the Sox are a different team without a productive Youk at the top. Really shows how good a leadoff man he’s been…
Didn’t Riske get clobbered when he came in from the bullpen? I know it was early in the season, but we screwed up letting Myers walk.
Duckworth has an oponenents BA of .341 and an ERA of 5.40. I really hope we are not going to make another scrub look like Cy tonight.
Riske was injured, got hit hard his first appearance back, then settled in… He was doing pretty well, such as the sample size would allow, when he was traded. The Sox did beat him up when they faced him before the break, but I remember seeing his numbers before that appearance and being impressed — and chagrined…
And Ortiz strikes out.
I really didi not see to much of him, so I do not remember other than I think his first appearance where he got bruised.
And Sidney “fat a**” Ponson is getting hit already. Yanks down 3-0.
Another crappy pitcher with a 5+ ERA, another 1-2-3, 2 K inning from the Sox offense. There’s been a lot of that going on this year. Me no likey…
Sidney Ponson is the best thing that’s happened to the Red Sox season thus far (well, maybe not, but you get the point). Only thing better would be if the Yanks keep him around for another three or four starts…
This is just amazing. it is like we wake up around the 7th inning and go sh**, we’re losing and need to do something about this.
I agree, I could only hope he remains with them the rest of the season. I really hope he has to make two starts in our five game series.
There goes Lester’s no-hitter. Damn…
Did you honestly think that was going to happen?
No way Torre would allow that to happen. The managers adjust their lineups for series like that. And I think we can all agree that THAT is an important series, certainly much more than a similar series in May…
True. We could only hope that a rare fever breaks out in the Yanks clubhouse. Similar to the Toronto issue of late.
lol, No. That’s why I said it…
40 pitches for two for Lester. At this rate, he might actually go 6! Imagine that!
Lester with 3k’s and has lowered his ERA to 2.75
Imay have to go to voodoo.com and get some mojo going prior to the series. Something along the lines of:
“May the fleas of 1000 camels infest your jockstrap.”
Ramirez strikes out. Seems to be a trend growing.
Whew. No runs for Ponson in the second. Take that, haters. I smell a big comeback for Sidney after his mistake in the first. Or at least I smell something…
ooooh, we got a hit. Way to go Trot.
Lowell flies out to right.
Trading barbs it is. I really do not like Andy Phillips. Take that. Wait. What?
tek grounds out into a FC.
Off to dinner, will return at home with my brand new DSL connection!! :-D
Let’s hope the Sox remember that they were the league leaders in offense not too long ago, and that the Royals are the league leaders in suckitude. Four strikeouts to the first five batters? Give me a friggin break…
2 down for Lester…both of groundouts.
3rd out recorded on another ground out.
Congrats, Paul! Now you can be depressed at the lack of offense and sketchy starting pitching at many times the speed of dial-up! :)
Crisp and Gonzo down almost immediately.
AFLAC: Who was the last Royal to win a GG?
I’m at a loss.
Saberhagen?
I believe so. I do not really recall another pitcher they had worth a crap except Appier.
They didn’t limit it to pitchers in the question. He’s the only name I could pull out of my foggy head.
Graff walked….Lester still pitching pretty good though.
Sox out of the T4. Lester gives up to walks, but one is gunned down stealing and the other goes down on the inning ending FC.
Saberhagen and Boone both won in 1989. They turned away from the Sox game here so I didn’t see the answer on TV. Did you see it, Rob?
No…didn’t see anything. being here in NC I am not seeing to many games unless it is on Fox South or the ESPN/2.
Ortiz down on his second K of the night.
Ramirez flies out.
I talked them into turning NESN on to the tv next to the SEA/NYY game. Now I’m watching four games. Sweet.
Nixon grounds out. Another highly productive inning from the Sox offense.
Rob – just found the answer, it’s Jermaine Dye in 2000.
lester through 5…67 pitches.
Dye?
Gold glove…For some reason I thought you typed CG. Duh.
Lowell grounds out. The hit clinic continues!!
Tek with a double off the monster.
Tek with a double!! Let’s drive him in and have a lead early for the first time in a long time.
Coco strikes out swinging.
AGon missed that sinker by a lot to K.
Oops.. Coco rather.
I forgot Dye was a Royal. Before him, it was Saberhagen/Boone.
A Gon works an 8 pitch AB to single up the middle and drive Tek in. Sox up 1-0. Finally someone delivers tonight.
Duckworth up to 86 pitches.
Youk flies out to center to end the inning.
Nice for Tek there…now swing the bat
Lester through the 6th…80 pitches. Should be able to pitch another inning.
Papi to the plate. He needs to quit the crap he is doing tonight and make Duckworth his punk.
his changeup is making Ortiz look silly
Papi flies out to left. At least he made contact.
Ramirez doubles to left with 2 out.
dejesus is good
Nixon is drawing an IBB.
Lowell to the plate…make them pay.
well that worked…
Lowell flies out to right. 2 runners stranded.
maybe the Yankees should sign Duckworth, and every other sorry pitcher that has looked good against the Sox in the past week, instead of Ponson.
I would think that is all for Duckworth. Up to 105 pitches, they should be turning it over to the pen.
I agree….maybe it is some plan we are trying.
Short leash for Lester. Do not allow this to get out of hand.
Graf walks for KC.
Hansen warming up in the bullpen.
Lester forces Teahan to into inning ending DP.
Lester 7IP, 1H, 4BB, 4Ks
very good night for the rook.
Sisco pitching for KC. Strike out Tek on 4 pitches.
Great game from Lester — which, really, it’s the Royals, so that’d be disappointing if it weren’t… Still, those walks are troubling. Gotta bring those down man…
Coco grounds out.
yeah, i think he’s just scared of giving up that big hit, he needs to relax, keep the ball down and let them hit it on the ground to his all star defense behind him
Gonzo also grounds out… Another hit though… He might be trying to hit .300 this year, just for the heck of it…
Lester pulled his usual. He walked the batters, but wiggled out of it. One caught stealing…get others to hit into DP’s. The one thing about lester is he knows how to induce DP’s.
Lester back out to start the 8th. Not sure if this is wise decision.
Lester back for the 8th?? Wow. Playing with fire here…
He gets Berroa to fly out.
I missed how Gathright ended up in KC… Was he released or traded or what?
Gathright tries to bunt and grounds out to third…
Gathright bunts out.
Ok, here’s your question:
Lester’s at 100 pitches even through 8. He has a one-hitter going. Give him a short leash (one baserunner) with Paps warming in the ninth?
I say yes.
Buck flies out. The kid sails through the 8th. Do not get stupid Tito.
He’s also allowed just one baserunner since the 4th, and he’s retired 13 of his previous 13 batters, thanks to the DP…
Unsure…depends on what we do here in the bottom half.
Youk gets it started with the single… 2 for 4 tonight. Maybe he’s coming back around…
I hope. If we could just drive a run around I would feel better about having Lester head back out.
A long wait with 1 or zero runs, and I lift him… But 2 or 3 runs here (or a quick zero) I think is worth giving him that short leash…
Good move by Loretta to move Youk into scoring position.
Papi getting the IBB. Manny needs to hurt someone’s feelings.
M-Lor bunts, and the Royals intentionally walk Ortiz to face Manny…
At what point is Manny gonna get pissd enough to start hitting home runs in these situations? Thus far, he’s been rewarding teams who pull this crap against him? I’ve never heard of a team intentionally walking someone to face a HOF hitter and one of the best RBI men of all time…
Manny has no one hitting behind him to change the pitches he sees. Really is frustarting for him I am sure….and he grounds into a DP.
But instead, he grounds into the double play. Exactly the worst possible outcome of sending a .300 hitter/contact guy up to bunt with no one out and Papi on deck… You get one out, and open the base for a walk and a potential double play…
Will it be Lester?
Nope, GameCast says Papelbon. Can’t fault that decision at all — although how cool would it have been for the kid to pitch a CG 1-hitter in his sixth start?
Gamecast is showing Paps headed in.
I agree, some of the choices of late are not smart. We have only 6 hits tonight. The offense is sucking pretty bad lately.
Papelbon gets the K, 1 down!
Paps rings the first one up.
2 down on a ground out.
Matt Stairs, first pitch swinging, grounds to first… Two down…
Paps closes it out on a ground out. in the process he lowers his ERA to a respectable 0.55.
Game!! Awesome!
Fantastic performance from Lesterbon — 1 hit, 5 Ks. Our offense should do better than that, but winning a 1-0 game is quite exhilerating…
2 SO’s in one week. No real offense in week. Not sure if I liked the earlier method, give up runs, score more than them. Or this crap. No offense.
Game took about 2 hours and 25 minutes. Game went really fast considering some of the drawn out games we have had lately. Bullpen with the exception of Paps gets the night off.
Lester improves to 5-0 with a very good performance. The kid is acting like a seasoned pitcher.
yeah, he looked pretty good. Better each time I think.
Perhaps Tito should have Lester give Clement heart and gut-check classes in the bullpen in between starts.