David Hernanadez (4.54 ERA, 102 ERA+)
Clay Buchholz (4.40 ERA, 108 ERA+)
The Sox should have a clear path to the Wild Card spot -- all others have fallen out of competition, and our schedule appears so much easier than Texas' (Cafardo pg 2), who starts their double header today 2 1/2 games out.
But doubts about the rotation after Lester and Beckett remain. Who's our #3?
There's hope that everyone from Daisuke Matsuzaka to Michael Bowden will be able to help. But more than one commenter on Sons of Sam Horn has pointed to Clay Buchholz as the key to the rest of our season, and perhaps the postseason as well.
He was amazing last time out. Let's see how his maturation as an MLB pitcher is coming along tonight.
Red Sox
1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. Victor Martinez, C
4. Kevin Youkilis, 3B
5. David Ortiz, DH
6. Jason Bay, LF
7. J.D. Drew, RF
8. Casey Kotchman, 1B
9. Alex Gonzalez, SS
SP -- Clay Buchholz, RHP
Orioles
1. Brian Roberts, 2B
2. Felix Pie, CF
3. Nolan Reimold, LF
4. Nick Markakis, RF
5. Melvin Mora, 3B
6. Matt Wieters, C
7. Luke Scott, DH
8. Ty Wigginton, 1B
9. Cesar Izturis, SS
SP -- David Hernandez, RHP
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Cleveland trying to come back against Texas. They come to within 5-3 in the fifth, then get two men on in the sixth. TX manager (Ron Washington?) does the smart thing and bring in the 100-mph thrower they got from Atlanta, Neftali Perez, to shut it down "Fireman" style.
...but Perez allows rare runs to score. 5-5.
OTT
Indeed. And that OTT is especially nice to see after starting 3-0 vs. Roberts.
Evening all. Haven't watched a single game of the W.Sox series, but I'm watching this one, if the stream gods permit.
Fuck Yeah!
And fuck yeah, I'm delayed...
SWEAT POWERED!!!
Not a bad first inning, I'd say.
HH looks nervous even when he's pitching well. Or talking to Heidi Watney, for that matter.
OTT
OTTFFS.
SEA BASS!!!!
WHOA! WTF was that? That dude flashed me, and furthermore, he had a dong!
Seabass is a slugging god.
I hadn't heard that Peña was done for the season. Man, the FKR are so out of it to become just the Rays again. Why waste good swear words on them?
Another OTT
I agree, Boss man sucks, Pena is out, Kazmir is gone. They're neither Devils nor Fucking. They simple are Rays.
OTTFFSSEN
FUCK FUCK YEAH YEAH
HELL FUCKING YEAH!!!
HH is becoming HHH.
Here's hoping he keeps it up to HHHH or even HHHHH levels.
It's a freakin' dong-a-thon out there.
5 doubles, 4 homers...A-Gon is slugging near .500 at the moment since coming back to us.
SEN?
Double FY, Jesus!
"SEN?"
Seven, eight, nine
5 doubles, 4 homers...A-Gon is slugging near .500 at the moment since coming back to us.
And I think he hasn't walked once.
...
Just checked it- his OBP is his BA, one for one.
That would've been obvious if I hadn't mistaken FFS with For Fuck Sake.
"Just checked it- his OBP is his BA, one for one."
He needs to get a SF or two and get an OBP lower than his BA
Seven, eight, nine
When we get to twenty, twenty one, etc. it will get really boring in the letter department, and really exciting in the game.
If Hernandez keeps this up, he might get tackled.
Wow, already into their bullpen in the third inning
FIRE SALE!!! EVERY DONG MUST GO!
ON FUCKIN' FIRE!!!
All five hits we have right now are home runs
"It's not funny, my dong is on fire
Paraplegic, inhuman liar."
/Mr. Bungle
Did Martinez just shake off HH?
All right, at least the shutout is still intact
The Rangers won. They're not gonna make it easy, it seems.
LaRoche continues to hit homers for the sputtering Braves.
Conformer, the WC is so ours to lose. Given the remaining schedule, it would be almost Mets-like of us not to make it.
That doesn't mean we're going to get anywhere if we do make the postseason, but we oughta at least be in there.
Injury delay?
Martinez took a pitch on the inside of his hand, and the coaching staff came out to look at it. He's back to catching.
Zen, I agree, for sure. I just said the Rangers aren't gonna make it easy. So the Sox are not gonna be able to clinch early and rest everybody the last two weeks of the season.
It's a cold fire...
Really?!
We load the bases with none out and don't score?
If we weren't leading 8-0 that would be annoying.
Yes
Or if Clay weren't pitching as well as he is
That was a NICE play by Yook.
FLO!!!!
Well, it seems like we're on full laugher mode.
Greetings all.
Dice K makes his final rehab start tomorrow.
In the smallest arena he's pitched in in decades.
IN WINSTON-FUCKING-SALEM, NC!!
I went this morning and bought 6 tickets in the row RIGHT-FREAKING-BEHIND the visitor's dugout.
I not at all pumped, though
Ah, September - there will be a lot of "who the hell is________" comments in the next few weeks.
Well, I hope there are. We probably won't be using the no-names so much if the race is still close and we're not holding a comfortable lead
Sosock, that sounds great. Don't forget to shout at him to "Throw fucking strikes!"
WATER!
Goes to show how un-baseball this town is. Hard to believe I could walk in there today and get those seats. 1st row over the dugout.
And this place is so small, even if we were the top row, it would be like the bottom section in a ML park.
BTW Ofer. I've been perusing your blog when I have some time, which isn't very often actually.
But I'm enjoying the hell out it. Quite an adventure you've been on.
Glad you're willing to share it
Thanks, Sosock. At some point I'll write a bit about Asheville... I was just there again this weekend. Still love it.
My favorite weekend getaway.
I'm only about an hour and a half from there.
My new-found buddies in the band play there a lot, too.
My new-found buddies in the band play there a lot, too.
Makes sense. It's a great music town.
I'm glad you enjoy the blog... and you're welcome to write comments- I barely ever get any of those (-:
Cool - just went back over the box score. What a great outing for Clay. 7I, 3H, 5K, 1W, 0Runs
And to just use 2 pitchers - that's kinda like real baseball. Hope this starts a trend.
Of course, it is the O's, and not a gage of what we'll have to do to win a round in post-season. But it's a good start
The water is Muddy!!!
Especially with 6 dongs being swirled in it.
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