4/29 v. Blue Jays

[VA Sox Fan]

Blue Jays

1. Rios RF
2. Eckstein SS
3. Rolan 3B
4. Wells CF
5. Hill 2B
6. Overbay 1B
7. Stewart DH
8. Lind LF
9. Zahn C

Halladay P


Red Sox

1. Crisp CF
2. Pedroia 2B
3. Ortiz DH
4. Ramirez LF
5. Youkilis 1B
6. Lowell 3B
7. Drew RF
8. Varitek C
9. Lugo SS

Lester P


Welcome back Mikey and Papi!

Go Lester!! GO RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BSN07]

The Funk stops here boys!


GO SOX!!!!!!!!

[MANNYHOF24]

Lets get a win on my birthday!

[Youk Of The Nation]

Lester vs. Roy friggin Halladay. Whoohoo.

[BSN07]

Anyone got a weather update for the game?

[Youk Of The Nation]

Anyone got a weather update for the game?

Partly cloudy with a 75% chance of too many walks.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Anyone got a weather update for the game?

Cloudy, 47 F, with a whopping 20 mph wind left to right.

Reminds me of Cla Meredith's first MLB game. :(

[VA Sox Fan]

Lets get a win on my birthday!


Happy Birthday! Good time to break this crappy losing streak.

Nice 3 up 3 down inning for Lester, hope he keeps it up!

[BSN07]

Nice 1st inning by Lester.

[ORS]

Lets get a win on my birthday!
Your's too?

Small world. Happy B-Day, man.

[TedWilliams101]

Is anyone having problems with NESN right now? It's completely blank right now for me.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Called strikes two and three to Pedroia were both balls.

[ORS]

Since mlb.tv won't come back from the break, let me just say I don't like the pFx for called strikes 2 and 3 to Pedroia.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Is anyone having problems with NESN right now? It's completely blank right now for me.

Yes, I switched to the Toronto feed.

Funny, neither announcer commented regarding those bogus strike calls for Halladay vs. Pedroia.

[ORS]

Does Francona wipe his ass with the stats sheets the FO generates for him pre-game? Ellsbury has some decent success against Halladay. Crisp in the game makes no sense.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Does Francona wipe his ass with the stats sheets the FO generates for him pre-game?

Dunno. Could be. :dunno:

In 2005, in particular, he used them repeatedly to justify playing Kevin Millar when it was clear that Millar had lost his power stroke...I think that he uses them to justify playing veterans, but that he plays rookies when he expects veterans to really struggle.

We could write to him and ask...? :rolleyes:

[VA Sox Fan]

Is anyone having problems with NESN right now? It's completely blank right now for me.


No problems for me. I have Comcast, MLB Extra Innings. It's allegedly in HD and it's NOT.

Another nice inning for Lester! Come on bats!

[VA Sox Fan]

Your's too?

Small world. Happy B-Day, man.

Happy Birthday to you too ORS!

[VA Sox Fan]

YOUK. So that's what a base hit looks like...haven't seen the Sox do that in a while..LOL!

[Youk Of The Nation]

ORS, per Castiglione on WEEI, Ellsbury was scheduled originally but pulled with a 'tweaked groin' from Tampa Bay.

[Coco's Disciples]

Stupid NESN.

[ORS]

Drew, you sly goofy bastard. Mixing it up with a weak chop to the LEFT not the right. You so crazy.

[ORS]

Hughes is getting cubically transformed in NY.

[VA Sox Fan]

Hughes is getting cubically transformed in NY.

As usual...nice.


Moss in for Drew....wow....:dunno:

[a700hitter]

What happened to Drew?

[Soxfan#1]

There goes the no-hitter.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Oh well...Lesters still pitching a hell of a game.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Quad tightness for Drew.

[Coco's Disciples]

So Lester is good tonight I guess.

[Youk Of The Nation]

57 pitches through 5 for Lester.

[ORS]

Don't speak of it. I fear it is a skittish entity, and speaking of it might frighten Lester's goodness away.

[VA Sox Fan]

Drew is quite delicate. Nice bunt and hustle by Moss.

C'mon TEK!

[Coco's Disciples]

Did the first pitch in the Zaun AB really look as much of a strike as it does on ESPN Gamecast?

[Youk Of The Nation]

Nice.

[ORS]

How in the fuck do you walk Greg Zaun? It's Greg Zaun.

Nice comeback to get Rios. That is a guy it's OK to be careful with.

[Coco's Disciples]

Sweet, got out of it. Looked like he was struggling more than any other inning. Still got, what, 77 pitches through 6?

[ORS]

Sweetness. Now score some runs off this Amish looking douche.

[Coco's Disciples]

How in the fuck do you walk Greg Zaun? It's Greg Zaun.

Nice comeback to get Rios. That is a guy it's OK to be careful with.

Hey! I like Gregg Zaun!

[The Dustball]

Halladay is mowing them down and doing it fairly easily, (71 pitches) I just hope Lester can continue to roll on and not let any of these two out walks hurt him

[Jayhawk Bill]

Halladay is mowing them down and doing it fairly easily, (71 pitches) I just hope Lester can continue to roll on and not let any of these two out walks hurt him

Welcome Dustball!

I'd post more but my heart stopped with that long foul ball... :o

[Coco's Disciples]

Halladay is mowing them down and doing it fairly easily, (71 pitches) I just hope Lester can continue to roll on and not let any of these two out walks hurt him

Welcome sir!

[The Dustball]

Welcome Dustball!

I'd post more but my heart stopped with that long foul ball... :o

Thank you Jayhawk Bill, I've been coming to the site for awhile but was just too lazy to start posting and I look forward to contributing here along with you guys

[Coco's Disciples]

Sooo if the Sox lose, they will have wasted the following performances:

Buchholz-8 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 9 K
Beckett-7 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 13 K
Lester-1 hitter through 7

'Scuse me while I go barf.

[ORS]

Hey! I like Gregg Zaun!
Hey, good for you, but that doesn't make him suck any less.

[Coco's Disciples]

Hey, good for you, but that doesn't make him suck any less.

:( I suppose...

EDIT: Ooh late comeback time! Uhh...but it doesn't make him any less of Rick Dempsey's nephew! Yeah, take that. ( I just found that out when I went to his baseball reference page to see how bad he sucks).

[ORS]

Big props to Jon. If you told me that Halladay would be on cruise control tonight, I would have told you we had no shot.

[Youk Of The Nation]

:lol: Dave O'Brien: "I feel like I've grounded to short three times tonight."

[Coco's Disciples]

Hey cool NESN's back. Just in time to see Halladay set us down 1-2-3.

[Youk Of The Nation]

This game is going to give me a stroke.

[Coco's Disciples]

Score.

[a700hitter]

This is the Lester that I heard about and read about, but I never saw him command like this. Hopefully they can manufacture a run here and bring in Papelbon to save the win.

[Youk Of The Nation]

I hope we can score this inning to put Lester in line for an overdue and very deserving win, especially on a day when Hughes got yanked early.

[ORS]

Fantastic. Amazing what can happen when you throw strikes.

[Youk Of The Nation]

It's up to Lowell, Moss and Tek.

[The Dustball]

Very impressive by lester tonight but I'd like to see him get the walks down just a little bit, overall i think this is a fantastic outing and i hope he can build on this in the future

[a700hitter]

PR for Tek with Ellsbury and steal 2nd.

[ORS]

Lugo, now is your chance to make us like you.

[Coco's Disciples]

Halladay is filthy. And no doubt he'll be back out for the 9th.

[The Dustball]

At least we'll have the top of the order coming up in the 9th

[Jayhawk Bill]

PR for Tek with Ellsbury and steal 2nd.

Wouldn't have worked with the strikeout, but I would've done that, too. :(

[Jayhawk Bill]

The wind has shifted from left-to-right to out-to-right.

Rios gone...big out.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Stairs gone. Two out.

[The Dustball]

Pap is feeling it out there, hes coming right after them and they can't do anything about it

[Coco's Disciples]

Thanks a lot Rolen, I was about to get a Papelboner.

[The Dustball]

Oh my God! DUSTYYYYYYYY

[Coco's Disciples]

DPEDS!!!!!

[Jayhawk Bill]

Pap is feeling it out there, hes coming right after them and they can't do anything about it

Except to hit a double...

Great play Pedroia!!! :thumbsup:

[a700hitter]

Big time play from the little man!!!

[Coco's Disciples]

Who wants to end this thing?

[ORS]

That's one of those, save the game then hit one out to win it type plays. Game over. Turn your TVs off. Dustin is winning this game.

[Coco's Disciples]

On a Pedroia note, anyone see that Globe article about his wife? She got diagnosed with melanoma and then went tanning. And then I think she did it again. I'm sorry, but thats just...really, really fucking stupid.

[Coco's Disciples]

That's one of those, save the game then hit one out to win it type plays. Game over. Turn your TVs off. Dustin is winning this game.

Okay, tell me what happens!:D

[ORS]

Fark.

[Coco's Disciples]

My dear, if Trupiano was still here, I'd probably die.

If I was listening on the radio.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Come on Youk...

[Youk Of The Nation]

YOUUUUUUUUUUK!

[Coco's Disciples]

YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK!

Best game of the year, easily.

[The Dustball]

YES!!!!!!!!! YOUK HELL YES!

[Youk Of The Nation]

KEVIN MOTHERFUCKING YOUKILIS IS YOUR GOD!

[The Dustball]

What a great game, lester was amazing and it feels nice to get back in the win column!

[BSN07]

Awesome Game!:D

[BoSox21]

awesome effort by both pitchers and some nice clutch hitting

[The Dustball]

It's especially nice to see lester dominate tonight while Hughes gets owned in NY

[Jayhawk Bill]

KEVIN MOTHERFUCKING YOUKILIS IS YOUR GOD!

While I understand your enthusiasm, given your screen name I wonder if you're being entirely objective with your enthusiasm. ;)

Pedroia's big play set the tone--Big Papi, Manny and Youks for the win. Good finish. :thumbsup:

[mAAAbs]

I kind of feel bad for Halladay. Tough to lose when you pitch a game like that.

[a700hitter]

Very exciting game! Very encouraging to see Lester step it up and go toe to toe with one of the true aces in the game. It was an impressive outing. Hopefully, this will be a turning point in the kid's development.

[soxfan17881]

I kind of feel bad for Halladay. Tough to lose when you pitch a game like that.

Our pitchers have lost some tough ones this week, too. Great game, even though I only got to see that last two innings.

[schillingouttheks]

I kind of feel bad for Halladay. Tough to lose when you pitch a game like that.

He's pitched like 3 complete games out of his last 4 starts and lost them all if I remember correctly.

[yeszir]

So we finally won a game? Thats nice to wake up and see for once. :)

[BoSox21]

He's pitched like 3 complete games out of his last 4 starts and lost them all if I remember correctly.

last night was his 4th straight complete game and he's 1-3 in them