Red Sox - 220 500 100 - 10 16 0That is not a typo.
Orioles - 001 000 55x - 11 16 1
Who could have guessed when the rain was falling in the middle of the fifth with Boston up 9-1 we should have wished the game would have been wiped out?
As surprising and annoying as this one was, it's still only one loss -- and we come right back with Josh Beckett tomorrow afternoon.
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Playing ball again after a 1:11 delay. Masterson in.
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Rain delay at 8:36 at end of top of fifth. Baltimore needs to finish the bottom half for the game to be official.
So far, the Red Sox bats have been raining down hurt on the Orioles:
Lugo: 2 hits, 2 runsSmoltz: 4-3-1-1-2, 52.
Pedroia: 2-run double
Yook: HR, double, single, 3 RBI, 2 runs
Ortiz: double, RBI single
Ellsbury: RBI single and solo HR (moon shot crushed to rcf)
Bailey: single, 2 runs
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UPDATE: It turns out the Red Sox will not wait until Thursday before making a decision about Mike Lowell. The team put Lowell on the 15-day disabled list today (retroactive to June 28) and called up Jeff Bailey.
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John Smoltz (9.00, 51 ERA+) / Rich Hill (6.03, 75 ERA+)
Look for more fastballs tonight from John Smoltz. John Farrell:
It could have been that it was his first time back and he didn't know what to expect velocity-wise. I'd like to see the ability to pitch off his fastball more.In addition to giving Mike Lowell an injection of Synvisc in his right hip*, the Red Sox medical staff drained 15 ccs of fluid from the area. Lowell could return to the lineup as soon as Friday, but, as Terry Francona said, "the worst-case scenario, he goes on the DL just to buy us a couple of weeks where he can get a second wind for the second part of the season."
(*: If Lowell could not play without getting this injection, wouldn't it qualify (broadly-speaking) as a performance-enhancing drug? Of course, this drug is legal and allowed by MLB. But it clearly helps the player better perform his job. And if Lowell's hitting and fielding are superior having had the injection, hasn't his performance been enhanced?) Am I totally off-base?
Lowell:
If I don't have a big improvement in mobility and flexibility and all of that I have to believe their going to think of something DL-wise, but if I feel really good I might play Friday. So Thursday is probably the day we chart what's going on.Francona said that Jacoby Ellsbury could be back in the leadoff spot "in the future", but for now J.D. Drew and Dustin Pedroia "are our two best on-base guys and since Ellsbury's been hitting seventh, he's just been (doing great), and we've been playing great baseball."
Drew, on his eighth-inning at-bat last night:
There's not a player alive who wouldn't know he needed a double for the cycle in that situation. I was trying to hit a double. [And how do you do that?] I don't know ... I was just going to hit the ball and run straight to second.Jonathan Papelbon recorded his 132nd save last night, tying Bob Stanley for the Red Sox's all-time mark. Bot again expressed his awe for Mariano Rivera and his latest milestone:
A (four)-out save for 500 is pretty neat. And an RBI. That's the icing on the cake. Just seeing what Mo did is absolutely incredible. ... He's "The Godfather" of our role ... You're talking about a guy who has 500 saves and has been through countless postseasons. When you're just aching day in and day out -- I don't know, man. ...Steve Buckley notes that "when Rivera was Papelbon's age, he had 84 career saves". That was 11 years ago. Can Papelbon still be closing games in 2020, at age 39?
Jason Bay is 1-for-13 in his past three games.
Orioles starter Hill has been highly erratic this season and hasn't completed five innings in four of his last six starts.
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But fails. Still 3-3.
I think they tapped Pepe's feed. (congrats, btw!)
Thanks (ratcheting up the IV drip....)
I'm so out of it, I mistook DSL for wireless! Gawd!
201, bitch.
I did throw out all my old New Yorkers after saving them for over 25 years. I just could not justify carting them from one place to another.
I probably should have sold them on Ebay. Goodwill would not take magazines, just books, so I just dumped (recycled) them.
meant to say earlier i should up some mccartney stuff for amy, but i'm not sure she'd know what to do with it. :>)
Meanwhile, the FKRs are back to scaring the shit out of me.
gumball chuggin'
Bailey!
Gumball's still playing to win.
What McCartney stuff? No teasing me. :)
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(b) If the pitcher whose team assumes a lead while such pitcher is in the game, or during the inning on offense in which such pitcher is removed from the game, and does not relinquish such lead, is a starting pitcher who has not completed
(1) five innings of a game that lasts six or more innings on defense, or
(2) four innings of a game that lasts five innings on defense,
then the official scorer shall credit as the winning pitcher the relief pitcher, if there is only one relief pitcher, or the relief pitcher who, in the official scorer’s judgment was the most effective, if there is more than one relief pitcher.
From the MLB rulebook. So Masterson will now get the win
Bailey's third career triple. Jere would have a pun for that.
i can't be bothered to read that. is it carved in stone?
mccartney: concerts and studio noodling. any time period or requests?
While I dimly remember the beatles appearance on the sully show, was not really a big fan of them until way later. Drives b-fly nuts when I pop in the beatles or the who or led
Do you think lawyers drafted the official baseball rules? That reads like the tax code or worse.
Yes Sock, carved in stone.
Easiest win that donkey will ever get.
Hey RS, I might have missed you mentioning it, But did you see John Henry got married over the weekend...
kirk has a beef
Probably. Normal folks don't write like that.
reception in the outfield, he and his child bride....
Seattle sac bunting tied in the top of the sixth. Morons.
mccartney: concerts and studio noodling. any time period or requests?
Am I the only one who thinks McCartney never did squat after "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"?
See, if I said that to my friend, she would quite literally claw my eyes out and show them to me before I die.
I am mostly a Beatles fan, not a Wings fan, so basically anything from the beginning through 1970.
I saw him in 2002 in NYC. We sat almost behind the stage, but it was worth it. My daughter heard that he was coming to Fenway and somehow pulled strings to get tix before they were on sale to the public. She figured Paul + Fenway = happy happy Mom!
Pedroia really really hated leading off.
gumball - 3 runs scored.
Drives b-fly nuts when I pop in the beatles or the who or led
I have a couple of little kids in the household who are on a big Who kick recently. It's pretty cute.
I kept reloading the first two hundred comments. pam and emma just returned from a day in northampton.
FKRs win 4-1.
Geez, don't you guys want Henry and his child bride to be happy?
Of course if I really want to have a room by myself, all I have to do is put on my 666 cd.
FKRs win 4-1.
Man, those guys just aren't going away.
They scare me more than the Yankees. Seriously.
some zep shows its age for sure, some does not. we were listening to the radio b'cast last night and then had a riff from "the ocean" coming back in from commercials. they should have just played that over and over behind the entire game!!!
i am totally meh about the beatles, which you all know, but did they ever do anything worthwhile live?
there is lots of studio stuff out there from various beatles albums. though? did you miss my link to 12 CD of white album stuff?
i think there is an entire month of "let it be" stuff, like 80+ CDs worth! i may be fuzzy on that, but i don't think so.
The Rays seem to be on fire lately, no? I fear them more than the MFY in the second half.
I swear I didn't read Pepe's post first.
eck saying "trade bait" with masterson on the hill -- be careful!
I swear I didn't read Pepe's post first.
Actually, I believe Benjamin beat me to the punch.
Are they actually leading MLB in runs scored?
FUCK -- kidney stone-esque pain for 5 seconds. OW that is not good.
maybe it is something else.
gets some outs will you
I do not recall any link to Beatles stuff. I would not expect it since I know you are not a fan, so perhaps I overlooked it.
I do not think there is anything decent from live concerts since mostly all you hear is girls (like me) screaming. (Actually, I was a weeper, not a screamer.) Supposedly, they hated doing concerts after a while because they realized no one could hear what they were playing.
I feel your pain, rs. No fucking fun.
Uhhhh, maybe someone else should pitch.
Jesus, let's try and blow a nine run lead.
The morphine part of kidney stones is pretty good.
:)
some zep shows its age for sure, some does not. we were listening to the radio b'cast last night and then had a riff from "the ocean" coming back in from commercials.
Zep has a special place in my heart because it was the first rock concert I ever went to ... and it turns out it was their last show ever in North America.
You ok, Allan? Laura home yet?
Can we take him OUT? PLEASE?
Soooooo.... pull him.
This is painful. Outs would be nice. just take him out now. ok thank you.
just saw Allan's comment. I assume it wasn't about the game? crap.
so does he want this easy win or what?
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L just called, headed home. Some strange story about when she left the bar with two other women from the resisters group, a guy came up to them out of the blue (i think) on the street and asked them with a dripping southern accent: "why do you hate america so much?"
i told her she MUST post about it tomorrow morning.
You feeling better, Allan?
seems like just cramps
better drink some more "liquids".
so does he want this easy win or what?
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L just called, headed home. Some strange story about when she left the bar with two other women from the resisters group, a guy came up to them out of the blue (i think) on the street and asked them with a dripping southern accent: "why do you hate america so much?"
i told her she MUST post about it tomorrow morning.
So, are you OK?
good play by FY, but what was Lugo doing? just watching, barely took a step towards the bag.
This is going to take awhile to re-read the thread. Had a shower and watched Top Gear. So now I'm back. Yay for two TVs!
One out, finally.
Pepe, when you are feeling better, we have to teach you how to use italics or at least quotation marks when you cut and paste others' comments. I keep getting confused!
Pepe, when you are feeling better, we have to teach you how to use italics or at least quotation marks when you cut and paste others' comments. I keep getting confused!
I'm sorta computer disliterate....
My mother just learned yesterday that she has kidney stones! In both kidneys!
... remember that game when allan was posting as he slowly died of a kidney stone ....
:<#
Uhoh, Allan and Ish's mom.
I hope Laura isn't too far from home.
Tonight we have the classic example of how to make a 9 run lead into a save situation.
Geez fragging, get these outs
Amy--I once tried teaching a student how to use italics in blogger--and explaining is hard since you can't use html....
10-6 ... and we still have two innings of BP left.
My mother just learned yesterday that she has kidney stones! In both kidneys!
Ow, I'm so sorry. I once many years ago had a *sheared* artery in a kidney. After falling down a flight a stairs (I think maybe I got these italics figgered out)
I'm off to put emma to bed. I fully expect to find a reasonably healthy Allan and a W for the sox.
g'night.
John, people here taught me, so it can be done.
Nice work, Pepe!
Ish, is your mom still in the hospital? Is she doing any better?
Amy--look how fast we taught pepe!
LOL, John!!
THis is so fucking ridiculous.
Allan, you still hanging in there?? I wish we had a way of helping you.
how can 10 fucxking orioiles have batted this inning?
She's still in the hospital - tomorrow she goes to the O.R. to have something done. I say something because they're not sure if they can break up the pieces and be able to avoid cutting or other invasive and painful things. But she really doesn't care. Just wants it over with.
So that means both my parents have had kidney stones.
Makes me want to buy a couple of bottles of cranberry juice.
Allan still watching, still mad, but clearly in pain given the typos.
Finally.
Yeah, drink cranberry juice. Great stuff. I hope your mom feels better soon.
And Allan.
Yeah, drink cranberry juice. Great stuff. I hope your mom feels better soon.
And Allan.
Ditto.
That 9 run lead and then the rain delay obviously made the bullpen way too laid back. Annoying. I would like to go to sleep and not have to worry about losing this game.
it is not on my side, so i think i'm okay. it comes and goes, mostly goes. took some gas-x tablets or something.
however if we drop this one, i may jump off the roof.
Is this in italics?
I sure hope so.
every time i get a stabbing pain in the general area, i get real worried. that was NOT a good day.
i totally understand the impulse to just get it over with, do whatever..
Yes, you did it, WCS!
Glad it is not too awful, Allan, though gas isn't usually that uncomfortable. But who knows?
Damn, gotta love those rain delays - well, at least if you're a damn LL baseball addict like me. I finally get to catch part of a game - 1st time since last Wed. or Thur.
What up Allan, sounds like you're hurting up there.
Is this in italics?
I sure hope so.
Sigh. Ok, I'm stooped.
And what is this "twitter" thing you kids today keep chirping about?
nah, i'm okay. thanks though.
nah, i'm okay. thanks though.
I don't think I've ever actually typed into a keyboard, "argggh, I'm in pain!"
Hi, SoSock. Sox were up 10-1 before the rain delay and have now given up 5 runs very quickly. Smoltz deprived of the win because of the rain delay.
So I think most of us are not too happy about the rain delay.
time for lbj to jack another tater.
Bleh.
it was only a comment.
i did not put up a post "my tummy hurts!"
YSE!!!!!!!!!!
fuck NO at the plate shitballs
Rock-em, Sock-em Rocco!
Amy - I bought a McCartney live acoustic thing at the used book/music store a few weeks ago.
Pretty good, about half of the songs are really good, the other half are pretty much straight from the original. All-in-all, well worth the secondhand price, but glad I didn't pay 12 bucks.
There really is nothing fun about kidney stones, alan, but, one thing for sure in my experience: there is never any doubt or questioning that the level of pain is outside of any do-it-yourself fix. You stand up (slowly) and say, "I need the ER.'
My laptop was installing updates and decided randomly it was time to say goodnight.
Stupid baserunning. Let's hope that four run lead holds. I mean, really, it should, but since they gave up five so easily, who knows?
John, my mother was in the mall looking for shoes in Sears when it hit her. We had to walk the full length of the mall to get to the car and she almost passed out twice. Thought it was a bowel obstruction.
And then of course, the traffic was terrible and the lights did not cooperate.
if it was a steady pain that did not go away, and only got worse (like last time) i'd panic.
but this was like a quick stabbing pain, then it went away. ... though it has come back 2 or 3 times since then.
SoSock, a new release? Or something old? What is it called?
Feels like the most tenuous 4 run lead ever. So sad.
it was only a comment.
i did not put up a post "my tummy hurts!"
It reminded me of the scene in "Monty Python's Search For the Holy Grail" in which King Arthur says, "Well, you wouldn't just carve 'Argggggh' into the wall."
My laptop was installing updates and decided randomly it was time to say goodnight.
That shit bugs the crap out of me. You should get a warning or something.
Methinks young Ellsbury would like his job back, and is trying to make a case for himself.
Ish--that took courage!
People say kidney stones are like labor pains. Most of the people I know who have had them are men. So maybe, Ish, your mom will know if that is really true.
John, my mother was in the mall looking for shoes in Sears when it hit her. We had to walk the full length of the mall to get to the car and she almost passed out twice. Thought it was a bowel obstruction.
And then of course, the traffic was terrible and the lights did not cooperate.
Ish, I'm so sorry!
I would be scratching my head also, Terry.
HOLY SHIT. STOP IT NOW.
My laptop was installing updates and decided randomly it was time to say goodnight.
Change your update settings so that you have the say so on when to install and it will stop that.
Fragging kidding me, did the bull pen gorget how to pitch?
...
SoSock, see what I mean about the rain delay?
Oh, man, the tying run in the on-deck circle!
My dad's stone pain occured at 4 AM one morning. In intense pain and almost passed out. My mother drove him to the hospital. It was a good thing he had it because they did blood work and found out he had diabetes.
Damn, could've used that run.
Allan, if this is stones I feel for you. I've never had them myself but have watched and helped my father get through it 5 or 6 times in the last 7 or 8 years.
He's a freaking tough guy, farm-raised, WWII vet, still in good shape at 85, but he was knocked down for the count by those things.
Groan. Stop it, now.
fuck, thought that was a johnson bridge
WTF was that?
OMG, what is WRONG with this team? Did they all start drinking during the delay?
what duh fuck, kot?
Amy--the first time I was in the ER with the stones, I kept telling my wife, 'Oh yes, this is much much worse than labor, much, no doubt about it.' She didn't know whether to laugh or strangle me.
Now, the tying run is at the plate!
Argggghhhhh!
bridge comment posts very late
FB on first pitch right after Eck says be careful
Yeah, John, I might have also. :)
WTF just happened?
GDGD syas "in play, no outs" but no runs either.
Must have been an infield hit that they elected to eat. Or maybe an error?
Little dribbler in front of the plate that Kottaras picked up but never threw for an out. Guess he wasn't sure where to throw first.
Well, the good news is I see that Seattle tied the game with the Yankees.
FFS
squibber, guys at 2nd/3rd stayed put
This is a problem
God!
saito in - that does not make me feel confident
Remember hours ago when I called this game a run away?
Time for a 6-out save by Bot?
L pulling in, she will restore some fucking order to this fucking tumblefuck of a game.
I hope.
Oki - 5 hits and 1 out - OUCH!
I was ready to bag zees then, amy. I wish I'd gone to bed then so I could read about this in the morning.
Amy--the first time I was in the ER with the stones, I kept telling my wife, 'Oh yes, this is much much worse than labor, much, no doubt about it.' She didn't know whether to laugh or strangle me.
I finally went to the ER after my lower back, half my buttocks and my entire right thigh turned purple. And for about 36 hours, it was touch and go whether they could save my kidney.
Well, b-fly wants her computer back so see you guys later!!!
I am glad Laura is home. Now I can worry a little less about Allan and a lot more about the Sox.
My god, Pepe--that's awful.
Yikes, Pepe.
Boy, are kidney stones that common? It seems like most of you guys have had some experience with them, either first or second hand.
Hmmm. Now L insisting I drink lots of water - and not beer. Booooooooooo!
Do what she says.
Lots and lots of water--float that bad boy right on down the stream.
Yikes, Pepe.
Boy, are kidney stones that common? It seems like most of you guys have had some experience with them, either first or second hand.
That was not a kidney stone, that was a sheared artery in the kidney.
That was about 10 years ago, too.
Finally, an out. But another run. Good thing he caught that.
Things I wish will never happen to me.
Including this game.
DP would be good about now.
An out! An out!
Hip hip hooray!
Wow, that sounds dreadful and scary, Pepe.
DP please - NOW!
i look forward to typing "had 'em all the way" at the end of this debacle.
Wow, that sounds dreadful and scary, Pepe.
It was definitely the biggest bruise I've ever had in my life. It was several square feet!
Man, this is the weirdest Red Sox game since that 19-18 game last year (or whatever the score ended up being).
Un be liev able.
I remember the 19-run game. Against the Texas Rangers, no?
fffs
JESUS CHRIST!
what is this shit?
SHIT!
What are we doing - throwing BP?
Checks nervously to see if Bot is warming up. Doesn't see the bullpen on computer screen.
Five outs for Papelbon?
Hoo boy, now the Sox only have a 58 percent chance of winning.
bleh
good work saito -- didnt see that outing coming
I remember the 19-run game. Against the Texas Rangers, no?
I don't remember the team, I only remember Laura getting really mad at me because I thought it was the funniest baseball game I'd ever seen in my life.
Pap v. Pie
Freaking unbelievable.
zink's debut, no?
man, I don't want to see this game leading off Sportscenter.
eck enjoys ripping on wieters's slowness
O's are trying to pay us back for the Mother's Day Miracle.
gift for bot
late to the party, but been watching the whole time.
HOLY GOD.
I'd forgotten what outs were.
K! OK, two away. Get out of this inning.
Phew!
Dang. I did notice the Yankees scored a bunch of runs somehow.
YAY BOT!
mmmmmmmmm........piiiiiee
The entire bullpen should commit seppuku. This is unbelievable.
I cannot believe this. What a mess. At least Smoltz wasn't going to get the w anyway.
Luckily this only happens once a season (for us at least)
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.......
I'll be damned.
Meh.....
Benjamin and Nixon thinking alike.
you've got to be fucking kidding me.
we have entered Mets territory.
the sox have left nix without words.
wow.
Luckily this only happens once a season (for us at least)
I hope so. it was kind of funny for a while. Now, it ain't so funny.
SIGH
that was a K, shitwipe
Bailey, Lugo, Pedroia due up. Then Youk, Bay. Let's get a couple.
Good job - walk Huff so you can pitch to the guy who's 3-4.
Phew - finally!
I really thought we were going to get out of it.
OK. RUNS MTHRFCKRS!
bailey and lugo to start us off ...
?
Ok, next three guys are a combined 6-for-13!
just tie it, we'll worry about the rest later
dear orioles:
pls act like the orioles.
cheers,
amen, for a tie here.
If we weren't coming back, I'd wish this had been rained out.
OK I LIKE IT.
KEEP THE CHAIN MOVING.
it's a start
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