May 18th @ Oakland

[stocker323]

Well the game is underway but no thread, so here it is.

 

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/images/gameday/mugshots/124071.jpg #3 David Wells (2-3 4.91) vs.

 

http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/images/gameday/mugshots/150003.jpg #30 Seth Everton (0-0 0.00)

[stocker323]

Lineups

 

Damon CF

Youkilis 3B

Ortiz DH

Ramirez LF

Nixon RF

Millar 1B

Varitek C

Vazquez SS

Bellhorn 2B

 

A's

 

Kotsay CF

Byrnes RF

Kendall C

Chavez 3B

Ginter 2B

Hatteberg 1B

Durazo DH

Ellis SS

Watson LF

[stocker323]

A's get 2 early runs, 2-0.

[yeszir]

They can't seem to start games at reasonable times on the west coast can they?

[elsrbueno]

this one turned ugly in a hurry.

 

maybe wells needs rehab, and to lose a few hundred pounds of fat, and add some muscle, and re-learn how to pitch......

 

Why does every player break out of their slumps against the Red Sox?

[element1151]

Welcome back elsrbueno! What a bad game so far! Why is Oakland and Seattle giving us so much trouble. The Mariners better win tonight...

[soxie thefangirl]

Wow. 9-1. I hate you David Wells.

[ACL BoSox]

wow, didn't even know there was a game on right now

 

this sucks

 

losing both series to two of the worst teams in the league.

[soxie thefangirl]

Wow. Apparently only Mark and Tek can hit the ball today. In solo homerun shots.

[YanksHater213]

Can someone explain to me exactly what happened? It sounds like I should be glad that I missed it.

[element1151]

Wells got beat up early, giving up 7 runs in 1.1 innings, then Gonzalez gave up 3 ER in 3.2 innings, and halama gave up 3 runs in 2.0 innings. And the A's lead 13-6

[yeszir]

Can someone explain to me exactly what happened? It sounds like I should be glad that I missed it.

You should be. A bad game all around.

[soxie thefangirl]

Terrible. Except for the great hits by Tek and Bellhorn and Youk.

 

Here's an amazing to me stat. Bellhorn's average is higher at .239 than Manny's at .237. That's so bad.

[YanksHater213]

No, its not bad... its horrendous...

[Sox fan in Tex]

I don't know why I watched the whole thing either... I guess that's what seperates us from Yankees fans. I didn't get home until the 5th inning, but looking at Wells' numbers, I can't imagine how much it looked like he struggled.

 

With tomorrow off and the Sox losing the last 2 series, I think people may start questioning keeping Millar over Youk at 1st. Youkilis' bat has proven that he deserves the start everytime out, and yet he still doesn't start regularly.

[soxie thefangirl]

That's true. They should split his time between first and third and give off days to Millar and Mueller. Don't take Bellhorn out when he's starting to heat up.

[schillingouttheks]

That's the problem with having a good lineup. However, I hate having a good lineup AND NOT SCORING!!!

[RedSoxRooter]

Yeah, but today's problems were because of Wells. I honestly believe that the only reason he's back so early is because he wants his inscentives. It's all based on innings ya know.

 

Just like he started the season, expect another bad start or two before he gets going.

 

I don't think there's any better proof than today that he needed a rehab start before coming back. Way to earn 1.1 innings.

[Sox fan in Tex]

You hit in the nail on the head, RedSoxRooter for TODAY'S game as far as Wells is to put the blame on, but game one and two of the series we left 13 men on and I believe 8 men on. In game one of the series we caught breaks and couldn't cash in, blame goes to the bats. Game two, our bats did the job. Game three, it took us 8 innings to get some runs. Add to the fact that we didn't face very good pitchers this weekend, and our bats didn't produce when they were practically trying to GIVE us runs is pretty bad.

 

Copied from my website, numbers prior to this series:

 

Oakland Athletics pitching:
              G/GS   IP  H  R ER  SO/BB HR   ERA  OBA
B.Zito........  8/8 50.1 52 35 31  31/14  6  5.54 .327
R.Harden......  7/7 45.0 38 17 14  42/15  3  2.80 .306
D.Haren.......  8/8 44.0 48 35 26  38/24  6  5.32 .357
J.Blanton.....  7/7 39.0 37 23 22  13/15  7  5.08 .323
K.Saarloos....  7/7 35.1 33 20 20   8/17  1  5.09 .349
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H.Street...... 18/0 20.2 14  6  5  24/11  0  2.18 .306
J.Duchscherer. 15/0 20.1 17  5  3   18/3  1  1.33 .275  
K.Yabu........ 11/0 17.2 19 10  5   14/5  2  2.55 .333
O.Dotel....... 14/0 14.1  9  6  6  15/11  2  3.77 .333
J.Cruz........ 12/0 14.0 19 17 12  17/13  2  7.71 .434
R.Rincon...... 20/0 11.1 10  6  6    4/5  2  4.76 .327
K.Calero...... 10/0  9.1 13  9  9   12/4  3  8.68 .370
T.Harikkala...  2/0  4.1  9  6  6    1/2  2 12.46 .478

[soxie thefangirl]

wow. that's crazy.

[Sox fan in Tex]

The best guy on the A's team ERA wise, and we didn't even have to face him. It could have been a sweep, had Harden pitched in game two.

[RedSoxRooter]

Actually, Harden would have been the game 3 pitcher instead of that dude yesterday.

[Sox fan in Tex]

Let's hurry up and get an Atlanta thread going. It's officially gameday for interleague play in Boston. I'm ready to put the west coast and all of those stay up late, leave too many runners on, games behind us. Bring on the Braves!