Game Thread: 09.16.09 Angels at Red Sox

[Joolz]

Youkilis is out again with back spasms and Martinez is still in Cleveland tending to a personal matter.

RHP Paul Byrd (1-1, 6.08 ERA) vs. LHP Joe Saunders (13-7, 4.81 ERA)

1282
1. Jacoby Ellsbury, CF
2. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
3. Jason Bay, LF
4. Mike Lowell, 3B
5. David Ortiz, DH
6. Rocco Baldelli, RF
7. Jason Varitek, C
8. Casey Kotchman, 1B
9. Alex Gonzalez, SS

1281
1. Chone Figgins, 3B
2. Erick Aybar, SS
3. Bobby Abreu, RF
4. Vladimir Guerrero, DH
5. Torii Hunter, CF
6. Kendry Morales, 1B
7. Howie Kendrick, 2B
8. Juan Rivera, LF
9. Mike Napoli, C

[Joolz]

The game is on ESPN tonight.

[Muse]

The game is on tv woohoo I dont havve to use my laptop to view it

again woohoo!

[3 Point Stan]

This 3-run deficit has that vibe... Like it may as well be 10 runs tonight.

[Grumpy_Bottom]

This 3-run deficit has that vibe... Like it may as well be 10 runs tonight.
http://blog.pharmalive.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/o_rly.jpg

:doh:

[3 Point Stan]

All part of my master plan!

[Grumpy_Bottom]

All part of my master plan!I, too, am a fan of the double reverso-jinxo :icon_pidu

[jaychamp]

That may have been the softest 5 runs the Sox have scored this year, but I'll take it :)

Saunders was talking to himself after that inning

[nomars_girl]

I didn't even know we were allowed to score 5 runs all in the same inning.

[Grumpy_Bottom]

God I hate HRamirez

He might be my new Lugo

[sprocketboy]

Aybar's having double trouble tonight.

[3 Point Stan]

God I hate HRamirez

He might be my new Lugo
He's pretty much a bag of dicks at this point.

7-7

[3 Point Stan]

"Chone"

Only an asshole would name their child that.

[sprocketboy]

He's pretty much a bag of dicks at this point.

7-7

Is it time to start a DFA countdown on this guy?

Nahhh ... they wouldn't bother during the September callup ... would they?

[3 Point Stan]

Is it time to start a DFA countdown on this guy?

Nahhh ... they wouldn't bother during the September callup ... would they?
In his defense, he would have been out of that inning if not for Captain Intangibles but you know he was serving up those runs after that.

[3 Point Stan]

Ugh... Chone-holes take the lead, 8-7.

[sprocketboy]

Fer feck's sake, Bard.

[Grumpy_Bottom]

In his defense, he would have been out of that inning if not for Captain Intangibles but you know he was serving up those runs after that.
+1 for Captain Intangibles after "I spread some rep around" :bow:

[sprocketboy]

Let's-go Nan-cy

[3 Point Stan]

nice play by Aybar to keep that out of the OF

[3 Point Stan]

I thought Jed Lowrie was dead?

[sprocketboy]

Strange choice for a PH ...

[sprocketboy]

Theo: Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain, dammit.

[3 Point Stan]

Chone, you ASSHOLE!

[nomars_girl]

Wow!! A bases loaded bottom of the 9th walk to tie the game?

Never saw that before.

[3 Point Stan]

A gift from the Baseball Gods right there.

Right down the plate.

[3 Point Stan]

All fifteen of the Red Sox shortstops were instrumental in this win. Awesome.

[sprocketboy]

A gift from the Baseball Gods right there.

Right down the plate.

Grand Larceny.

After that ending, and the HBP to Vlad, how much you want to bet some poor Red Sox batter takes one off an ass-cheek tomorrow?

[nomars_girl]

Dirty Water!!

[Baloon Knot Hunter]

This season has the 2004 stamp all over it

[sprocketboy]

All fifteen of the Red Sox shortstops were instrumental in this win. Awesome.

Goddamn forum won't let me +rep you again so quickly.

[3 Point Stan]

Seriously, that has to be a record for most times reaching base by a collective group of SS in MLB history. It HAS TO BE.

[jaychamp]

This season has the 2004 stamp all over it
Too funny, not more than 2 months ago some people were saying this season had the 2006 stamp all over it :rofl:

[dunaja]

I hate the Amica pitch zone. It's way way off. That pitch may have been a strike, but it was not right down the heart like the thing says. It's always wrong.

[dunaja]

Tonight's water is extra dirty!

[Baloon Knot Hunter]

Too funny, not more than 2 months ago some people were saying this season had the 2006 stamp all over it :rofl:


Yep, and those people were promptly told to leave the Red Sox bandwagon and never come back. Any real fan knows that a BAseball season is a series of Ebbs and Flows; you just hope that your team Flows more than they Ebb and that they get it together in time for the playoffs (See the 2oo4 Red Sox)

[sprocketboy]

I hate the Amica pitch zone. It's way way off. That pitch may have been a strike, but it was not right down the heart like the thing says. It's always wrong.

The K-zone on ESPN said it was in the middle third, maybe an inch above Green's knees.

[dunaja]

The K-zone on ESPN said it was in the middle third, maybe an inch above Green's knees.

I forgot this game was on ESPN too, I watched the whole thing on NESN. Yeah, the K-Zone is a little better but I still don't trust it. I think those things react to the catcher's frame, not the flight path. You could see Napoli snap the ball upwards (way upwards) to frame it... clearly his initial reaction was that it could be borderline. Fuentes' (and Scoscia's) reactions were both based on the frame, not the pitch. The frame was a definite strike, and he held it there. I think the umpire's call was a little more borderline than it was ridiculous. I certainly don't let my opinion get swayed one way or another by crappy Amica zone or K-Zone though.

[nomars_girl]

Would have been interesting to see what the defense would have looked like in the top of the 10th if the game had been tied. Shortstops at every position?

[sprocketboy]

Would have been interesting to see what the defense would have looked like in the top of the 10th if the game had been tied. Shortstops at every position?

Nick Green pitching, for sure.

[sprocketboy]

Grand Larceny.

After that ending, and the HBP to Vlad, how much you want to bet some poor Red Sox batter takes one off an ass-cheek tomorrow?

So ... who had VMart in the "HBP in the ass-cheek" pool?