August 21, 2009

G121: Yankees 20, Red Sox 11

Yankees - 240 063 104 - 20 23  1
Red Sox - 100 033 004 - 11 12  1
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Andy Pettitte (4.09, 109 ERA+) / Brad Penny (5.22, 91 ERA+)

George A. King III, Post:
What happened in the 2004 ALCS will never be deleted from every mainframe in the Yankees' universe. Not even a World Series title this season completely will erase those painful Red Sox memories that will haunt multiple generations.

Yet starting tonight in New England's living room, the Yankees can extract a wee bit of revenge by burying their blood rivals in the AL East race. Or they can allow the Red Sox to climb off the canvas and turn the final six weeks of the season into a two-way scoreboard-watching orgy.

"We have a chance to do something special against them," manager Joe Girardi said of his club, which leads the Red Sox by 6½ games after Boston blew out the Blue Jays 8-1 last night.
Something "special"? Is the possibility of extending a division lead in the middle of August "special"? Should it happen, is it "special" enough to warrant an ice cream reward?

The Red Sox will emerge from this three-game weekend battle 3.5, 5.5, 7.5 or 9.5 GB the Yankees -- with 38 games remaining in the regular season.

A Boston series sweep -- as the Red Sox have done to the Yankees thrice this season, on April 24-25-26 and May 4-5 and June 9-10-11 -- would make things very interesting once again in the AL East, especially since the two teams will meet again, in New York, on September 25-26-27.

Tonight's game begins a 10-game homestand at Fenway Park. Twenty of the Red Sox's next 25 games are against the Yankees, White Sox, Rays and Angels. It is essential that they continue the strong pitching and hitting performances they showed in Toronto. The Yankees -- 25-9 since the All-Star break, including a four-game sweep of the Sox on August 6-7-8-9 -- have not won a game at Fenway Park since September 28, 2008.

Horseface started against the Red Sox on August 9 in New York, pitching seven scoreless innings and allowing only five hits; he took the loss back on April 26. Penny turned in a 6-6-0-1-5 line against New York on June 11.

Weekend pitching match-ups:
Sat 4 PM: A.J. Burnett / Junichi Tazawa Sun 8 PM: CC Sabathia / Josh Beckett
In other news, Michael Kay is an asshole. (Do not miss the twitter link!)
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Unknown said...

"I probably should have come up with a better example."

Craig Hansen maybe?

laura k said...

There is no size screen that could compensate for Michael Kay. OK, I'll just try to ignore the Kay comments while you enjoy your big screen.

laura k said...

Lucchino & JH in the booth to welcome Jerry back.

Lord Lynch said...

Er... Am I missing something?

Is that Brad Penny pitching? Or am I hallucinating?

Lord Lynch said...

JESUS!!!!

ESPN AMerica has the NESN feed! Doh!

allan said...

Like Remy, it's time for the Red Sox to get back to work.

Unknown said...

Wow, we can't catch a fucking break

laura k said...

Don & Jerry are trying to get rid of them. Don all but said, leave now.

Oh hallefuckinglujah a double play!

allan said...

DP!

Lord Lynch said...

Apologies to all....

(To explain - we have the game on two channels. ESPN UK and their European affiliate ESPN AMerica. I never thought for one minute we'd have separate feeds!)

Unknown said...

Okay, maybe we can catch a break.

laura k said...

Ha ha Lord, that's great. Now you have to stay up a while longer.

We are going to win this game.

Seriously. We are.

No, really.

allan said...

tito clearly hoping to buy an extra inning from shithead here.

Lord Lynch said...

England are going to win the Ashes. Seriously. We are. Probably. Maybe. Oh we'll blow it.

allan said...

it's been quite awhile since we had some 'freud.

laura k said...

Nah, it's my fault. You should be able to vent on the thread. If I didn't spend so much real time listening to *someone* complain about announcers, I'd be a bit less sensitive to it... hum de dum...

Lord Lynch said...

Sorry, L!

allan said...

penny bought himself another inning.

Unknown said...

Penny gets 2 Ks and a DP in one inning.

Won't see that too often.

allan said...

wow - shitty swing.

could the sox batters at least LOOK like they have a clue up there?

laura k said...

OMG he's out at 3rd

allan said...

FY = Idiot

Lord Lynch said...

And on that Keystone Cop moment. Adieu. Bon Soir. Auf Wiedersehn.

mattymatty said...

I don't think there's a good solution to the starting pitching problem anytime soon.

Wow... DP getting a bit greedy there. Man, it's gonna be one of those nights, huh....

Iridescence said...

Damn bad move getting thrown out at 3rd with 2 outs down by 5. Why FY why?

Unknown said...

I'm speechless

allan said...

i hate these games where the sox fall behind by 4-5 runs and then go up flailing away at any ol' pitch and being stupid on the bases. no fucking plan, no fucking smarts.

allan said...

remy lovin' jetes.

sigh.

mattymatty said...

With the Sox down by five Remy needs to keep the jeterating to a minimum, lest I freak the fuck out.

laura k said...

don't they all

laura k said...

Poor Jerry, trying to do a little pbp while Don's audio was messed up!

Zenslinger said...

TB 2 - TEX 0

laura k said...

OTT

too little too late

Unknown said...

And Penny remembers how to pitch two innings after we needed him to

Anonymous said...

Red Sox fans care sooooo much more about the Yankees than the other way around.

(despite me posting on this Red Sox blog)

allan said...

Hey look - it's Mr. Monday Morning
QB!!!!!!!!!

Say how did that Tigers series turn out?

mattymatty said...

"Red Sox fans care sooooo much more about the Yankees than the other way around."

Oh, great point. And so relevant.

allan said...

After the MFY got blown apart by the Tigers, we called for you to reappear:

"Guuuuuuuuuuutch, Guuuuuuuuuuutch" we called, yet you hid from us.

Rob said...

Well the Red Sox game sucks, but a thunderstorm came through and I hit the GOLD MINE!!! Got quite a few good lightning shots. FINALLY!!!

laura k said...

Fucking Gutch! What the hell boy, we sweep you 8-0 and you are nowhere to be found, but now you come around talking smack? Fuck You Gutch

laura k said...

You see any of us posting on Yankees blogs?

No, you do not.

You see Yankees "fans" posting on this Red Sox blog?

Yes, you do.

Gutch: if you don't care, GO AWAY. We will not miss you.

allan said...

When the Yankees won the first game of the 2006 ALDS, we all said they got lucky and would not win again.

Gutch took strong exception, accusing us of Monday morning quarterbacking (though the games had not yet been played). The MFY lost 3 in a row and their season was over.

And cowardly Gutch never returned.

UNTIL NOW!

Iridescence said...

"despite me posting on this Red Sox blog"

LOL look the troll has a limited grasp of irony. How cute!

laura k said...

A, you're asking Gutch about the Tigers series, he probably doesn't even remember that. He stopped cheering for the Yankees the next day, and started again last month.

mattymatty said...

Ugh... Bay crushes one on a line and it's right at Hinske. An fortunately for Hinske too, because dude has the range of dead squirrel.

I wonder if, in his off hours, Hinske shows off his World Series win ring to Teixeira, Cano, Swisher, Matsui, A-Rod, Cabrera, Sabathia, and Burnett.

Zenslinger said...

UNTIL NOW!

Aaaaaaigh, the fuggin' DRAMA.

laura k said...

accusing us of Monday morning quarterbacking (though the games had not yet been played)

I guess that would be Saturday night quarterbacking?

laura k said...

I wonder if, in his off hours, Hinske shows off his World Series win ring to Teixeira, Cano, Swisher, Matsui, A-Rod, Cabrera, Sabathia, and Burnett.

:-D

allan said...

Gutch: You are wrong.

Unknown said...

DFA him

allan said...

HERE is the infamous Gutch thread.

mattymatty said...

That's gotta be it for Penny. That was a 1-2 pitch that Slappy hit off the top of the monster. You just CAN'T throw a 1-2 pitch over the heart of the plate like that.

laura k said...

Finafuckingly, buh bye Penny, we hate you

mattymatty said...

Right as they went to commercial you could hear Remy go "UGH!"

I second that.

allan said...

I love in that thread how both L and I say right away "4 games" - NYY will not win another one.

And so it came to pass.

Chokers.

Iridescence said...

Who cares anyway? Hating the Yankees is fun. I'm not gonna apologize for doing it to one of their asshole fans. I'd never post on their blogs though. Trolling and smack talking is stupid.

Unknown said...

You know, I'm really starting to question Theo's whole low-risk high-reward strategy

It's seemed to have worked out as low-risk low-reward

Saito's really the only guy who has lived up to my expectations

laura k said...

Imagine us old farts behaving in this manner. Shocking. Disgraceful!

Oh fuck

Oh fuck that did not just happen

Iridescence said...

damn

allan said...

redsock said...

Guuuuuuuuuuuutch?
Where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?

Sun Oct 08, 12:24:00 PM

*************

fuckin' shemp.

Unknown said...

Fuck, Penny could have done THAT

Patrick said...

So, it's one of these games.

laura k said...

Who cares anyway? Hating the Yankees is fun. I'm not gonna apologize for doing it to one of their asshole fans.

Right, nor should you or anyone else. And the feelings are obviously mutual, and it's just "protesting too much" on their part when they say otherwise.

"I'd never post on their blogs though. Trolling and smack talking is stupid.

But they only do it when they're winning. No sign of them otherwise.

Rob said...

Bowden reminds me of Joe Blanton.

allan said...

Who cares? I do.

He talked big on a Red Sox blog and didn't have the guts to show up when his team went down the tubes -- in exactly the way we said it would. He ran off and hid for almost three years. And now he comes back? Fuckin' A right I'll rip him.

laura k said...

Well, before that HR I still thought we were going to win this game. Now I'll just say this series will not be a sweep.

laura k said...

Well shit, I care about that too.

Irid said "who cares" about so what if we think about and hate the Yankees, no shame in that. Who cares to what Gutch said.

allan said...

I'm getting a distinct Game 3 rout vibe from this one.

laura k said...

So far I'm not enjoying the Bowden era.

Patrick said...

Damn you, Fangraphs! Never tell me the odds!

Unknown said...

How does this team go from totally dominant against Toronto to THIS?

allan said...

Good outing by Wake.

Patrick said...

How does this team go from totally dominant against Toronto to THIS?

The answer to that question claims to puke every time he pitches.

Rob said...

Bill Simmons tweet: Brad Penny throws 96 with tons of movement. Unfortunately, it's bowel movement.

laura k said...

Just like us. We throw up every time he pitches too.

Patrick said...

I don't puke, I just die a little inside.

Unknown said...

I'm hoping maybe Pettitte pitches shittily after sitting for so long.

laura k said...

Bill his usual witty self.

allan said...

I blame Remy.

Unknown said...

Fuck, Javier Lopez could have done this for us

mattymatty said...

Lopez? Shit, I could've done this. This is straight embarrassing and I hope we come out tomorrow and show some fight.

Iridescence said...

Memo to Theo. Having many below average pitchers does not equal
"pitching depth"

allan said...

mdc up

mattymatty said...

Yeah, guess we better get the pen back up. Or, we could just let Bowden rot out there and see if the Yankees can break 50.

allan said...

tito deciding to warm-up a major league pitcher to work for the sox tonight.

laura k said...

I blame Lugo.

Unknown said...

44 pitches, 23 balls, 2/3 of an inning

I was really, really wrong about thinking Bowden would be an improvement

allan said...

this game is a test of remy's meds.

Unknown said...

"I blame Lugo."

Don't we all?

Iridescence said...

I hope they leave Bowden out there for a while. Maybe he can straighten himself out and barring a miracle the Sox aren't going to win this game anyway. May as well save the bullpen.

Rob said...

Too bad Penny wasn't still in there.

I can't believe I said that.

allan said...

might as well do some work, with nesn in my ear.

laura k said...

Rico Suave to PH for the Fiery One

mattymatty said...

"barring a miracle the Sox aren't going to win this game anyway."

At this point we're going to need somewhere around eight miracles to win this one.

allan said...

sign of life?

Unknown said...

Do we actually have two runners on base?

Iridescence said...

Orsillo just said the Red Sox weren't very good from '65 to '75. Um '67?

laura k said...

Even though a loss is a loss is a loss, it would still be nice to score a few runs.

mattymatty said...

The headline on redsox.com:

"Ellsbury Ties Harper's record, Scores in First"

Yeah, I guess I wouldn't bring up the whole 12-1 thing either.

tim said...

I'm back!

And - OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK?????


BRB, going to check the liquor cabinet.

laura k said...

Did he say that? I'm listening, and I didn't hear that.

tim said...

Good time to tune in! Now let's fuckin bat around a few times!

laura k said...

I'd love to see Joe get nervous about the lead.

Of course, that would involve a Red Sox pitcher not allowing any more runs. Hmm.

Iridescence said...

It sounded like he said "The Red Sox and Yankees weren't very good from '65 to '75". Maybe I heard it wrong.

Unknown said...

Lyndon!

laura k said...

Tim, you're very prompt! You said 9:30 and 9:30 it is.

laura k said...

I thought he said the rivalry wasn't very big then.

mattymatty said...

The headline on redsox.com:

"Ellsbury Ties Harper's record, Scores in First"

Yeah, I guess I wouldn't bring up the whole 12-1 thing either.

mattymatty said...

The headline on redsox.com:

"Ellsbury Ties Harper's record, Scores in First"

Yeah, I guess I wouldn't bring up the whole 12-1 thing either.

laura k said...

Here we go!!!

Rob said...

THIS LINEUP!

Keep that fucking line moving, boys.

tim said...

Nice to hear Remy :)


WOW what am I saying?!!


FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Iridescence said...

If you're going to miss a few innings of one Sox game this year you picked a perfect time, Tim

allan said...

ALIVE.

... and FY decides to stick with a double.

A 15-14 win would be fine with me.

Unknown said...

FY!

laura k said...

Tim, here's my game recap.

Penny sucks.

Bowden sucked.

LBJ tied Tommy Harper for steals.

Iridescence said...

WTG Dustin! making it slightly less sucky at least.

Unknown said...

I would love to see a blue light special here

allan said...

Bitch Tits looked Grampa-esque trying to go to his right for that one.

laura k said...

You guys must love seeing FY and Jeter pal around.

They are friends, you know.

laura k said...

Oo wait, gamethread recap. We had an old NYY troll *from 4 years ago* come back!

allan said...

the key will be keeping these cocktrumpets off the board the rest of the way

Iridescence said...

"I thought he said the rivalry wasn't very big then."

Yeah but I thought he gave as a reason that neither team was very good then. Maybe he was just talking about the Yankees and I heard it wrong.

tim said...

Thanks for the update, L.

Checked the box and I'm almost ready for beer #2.

Dammit to hell. More runs pls.

Fuck.

laura k said...

Damn, I was thinking 12-6 there. But ok, we're clawing back.

tim said...

Just quickly perused thru the thread. Cool to see ish got his lightning pics. I told ya, it was amazing yesterday on the way into T.O. If it's the same storm, you were guaranteed some sweet shots.

Unknown said...

Let's hope their bullpen blows up

tim said...

WTF FRANCONA? WHY ARE YOU CONCEDING THIS GAME YOU SHITHEAD??????

allan said...

Green is in LF?

mattymatty said...

Well, Francona just gave up by taking Youk out for Defensive Firstbaseman #1.

Unknown said...

Dammit Tito, why the FUCK is Green in left field?!?!

mattymatty said...

Honestly, I don't get it. I mean, it's the sixth inning, we just dropped three on them and... you know what? Never fucking mind.

Damn I hate Dumbo.

Unknown said...

Re Kotch Rocket: He could have at least swapped Lowell out and put Youk at third to help the defense.

Unknown said...

Oh great, leadoff double.

laura k said...

Gonna go threadless for a while. I'll come back when it's 12-9.

mattymatty said...

I hate to say it, but that's it for me too. I've gotta get up early tomorrow.

Two out of three: we start tomorrow, folks! GO SOX!

Unknown said...

Alright, we are rapidly approaching the point where the only way that I can have any good feelings about this game is if the benches clear

Unknown said...

Well, we've now wasted the last inning...

allan said...

... so much for the 3 we got.

tim said...

Francona's Brain: "Alright Tito, this is bad. It'll take some quick thinking to get us back in this. Some innovative, crazy thinking. Here's what I'm thinking - we take out Yook and Bay -"

Tito: "Wait a minute, brain. Those are our two best hitters."

Brain: "Exactly! We take them out, and put Kotchman at first and Green in left field -"

Tito: "Green in left? But he's an infielder"

Brain: "Exactly! It'll fuck with them! They won't know what to do, and while their busy asking themselves what the fuck you're doing, we'll score 8 runs and tie it up!"

Tito: "But -"

Brain: "Ah ah ah - no buts, this is a guaranteed win-win"

Tito: *sigh* "Fine brain, you win. This time."

I'd much rather do this than pay attention to the poopfest @ fenway going on on the left side of my computer screen.

I'm really getting sick of these "Friday Night Shit Starter is Shit so we put in a PawSox pitcher to get shelled" nights.

allan said...

... but as long as NESN stays on the air, I'm listening.

Rob said...

YES. That fantastic defensive play by Kotchman. That'll get us back into this thing!

tim said...

Can't wait for Wake and Dice!!! :)

Unknown said...

I can't wait for Wake

Dice...depends highly on whether or not Tazawa gets the job done tomorrow

allan said...

yay - bowden retires 2 consecutive batters for the first time!!!

Rob said...

Watching ESPN... I see it's the Boston Red Sox against Peabody, MA little league team.

On NESN? The New York Yankees against the Texas little league team.

tim said...

Yeah, hopefully the junebug can get his shit together tomorrow. I still think they moved him along mighty fast, Bowden should've been up first. (Dunno about that thought now though - but it's a brutal situation for him to come into) - but yeah, I want to see Taz go devil on their ass. (3 seconds into that clip - that's what I want to see on the mound before every pitch tomorrow)

laura k said...

I didn't say I wasn't watching! I only said I wasn't *threading*.

I watch all 9. Or however many there are.*




* Except west coast games because I fall asleep.

Unknown said...

Green and Kotch Rocket come in and they both get hits to start the inning

Ha

tim said...

Good start. Now, I wanna see more dongs than a doorbell convention.

Unknown said...

Well, hit and error, but that's good enough for me

tim said...

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Patrick said...

Don't tease me, Red Sox, You'll only hurt me more.

Rob said...

That's what is called the Outfield Bermuda Triangle.

Unknown said...

These fuckers are getting my hopes up agian

Let's score 20

allan said...

let's take this nazi to nuremberg.

tim said...

DOCTOR NEEDLETHREADER!

Unknown said...

LOADED

allan said...

i know bowden is here for just this reason and tito doesn't want to burn the pen with tazawa tomorrow, but fuck it all, i wish he was more proactive and it was 11-5 or so now.

tim said...

Alright, baldy. A bit further than last time would be just swell.

allan said...

can baldy give us a shaved dong?

Patrick said...

Grand Salami from the Ball Deli?

tim said...

BBALDELLRBI!

Unknown said...

rBBi

tim said...

Big bats comin up now...

Patrick said...

They tease me so badly. Stop!

allan said...

This would be fucking EPIC!

18-16!

Unknown said...

Prepare to face the wrath of the Sea Bass

tim said...

If this were Toronto, 3/4 of the crowd would've left 2 innings ago.

Unknown said...

"18-16!"

I remember that game

Poor Charlie Zink

Rob said...

Bury this Nazi fucker.

tim said...

How about a nice 19-18 win ;)

allan said...

be smart, fish face.

Rob said...

I bet if this were LA there'd be nobody left.

tim said...

Bruney's a nazi?

Guess I should check the gloss.

Rob said...

That must've been a very inspiring conversation.

"Throw it down the middle, asshole."

tim said...

noooo slingbox dont fail me now

tim said...

whew. crisis averted.

Rob said...

I love this crowd. Living and dying with every pitch. Trailing 15-6. How many people have left Fenway? Three?

Unknown said...

Oh, the Zink game was 19-17

My bad

tim said...

swung at ball 4 :(

allan said...

we need mega-runs this inning - this is a gift -- take it!

tim said...

FUCK YOU SEABASS

Rob said...

Cock.

allan said...

as a hitter, he's a good fielder.

Unknown said...

That's not really what I was looking for there...

Patrick said...

Within eight.

No biggie.

Unknown said...

Wow, mega squander

tim said...

that died out in a hurry. going to hook up the computer to the tv and watch fullscreen for a bit.

bye for now

Unknown said...

Well, if we keep them scoreless and we keep scoring 3 per inning, we win this

allan said...

i noticed the crowd too. rockin' with even the hint of a rally!

man, that inning went poof real quick.

Rob said...

Well... We've scored 1 run for each out in the last 6 outs. We have 9 outs left. And down by 8.

So... Keep them from scoring again and we're golden.

Rob said...

MDC time.

allan said...

mdc in

allan said...

tek in too

Rob said...

Damn. Cactus in? We've just conceded this game.

allan said...

the bench is bare.
this is our comeback lineup.

Unknown said...

Oh great, Cactus behind the plate...

Rob said...

Actually that's brilliant to put him in there. The Yankees can run all they want tonight and then tire themselves out for the next two games.

Patrick said...

This is fucking retarded.

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