May 23rd @ New York

[example1]

Anyone else watching Buchholz v. Clemens?

 

Clemens is coming out for the 6th, which means he very well could be pitching for NY next week.

[jacksonianmarch]

I'm just wondering how they're gonna leave this run at 2nd.

 

they wont. 6-1.

[TheKilo]

I'm just wondering how they're gonna leave this run at 2nd.

 

I'm just wondering how they're gonna leave this second run at second.

[example1]

FWIW, AA players are small.

 

Good double by lowell.

[example1]

I can't wait for Clemens to try to pitch against the Sox. His stuff is mediocre +.

[riverside sluggers]

Roger Clemens pitched 5 1/3 innings and allowed at least two runs Wednesday in his start for Double-A Trenton.

 

Clemens walked three in a 30-pitch first inning, but he was pretty good from the second through the fifth. Surprisingly, he came back out for the sixth at 85 pitches and struggled. He hit a batter to load the bases after narrowly avoiding a two-run double -- a fly down the right-field line went foul by inches -- and then issued his first walk since the first to score a run. He left with the bases still loaded having thrown 102 pitches. We can't imagine he would have thrown that many pitches tonight unless he intended to face the Blue Jays in five or six days.

 

eek, no doubt he'll remain a 5/6 inning pitcher. He struggled just to get past Double A batters

[ORS]

I can't wait for Clemens to try to pitch against the Sox. His stuff is mediocre +.

We just need to make sure we line up Curt with him, so he can get the run support he'll need.

[TheKilo]

We just need to make sure we line up Curt with him' date=' so he can get the run support he'll need.[/quote']

 

I was gonna say something along these lines, lol.

[SchillingIsTheNatural]

This game/series has a feel to it that the Red Sox are flat and the Yankees are coming to life.....typical....my only hope is we maintain this lead in the standings then match up Beckett and Matsuzaka in the upcoming fenway series.

[riverside sluggers]

This game/series has a feel to it that the Red Sox are flat and the Yankees are coming to life.....typical....my only hope is we maintain this lead in the standings then match up Beckett and Matsuzaka in the upcoming fenway series.

 

As it is currently constituted (rotation being as it is with Beckett coming back next week)...

 

June 1- Tim Wakefield vs Tyler Clippard

June 2- Julian Tavarez vs Chien-Ming Wang

June 3- Curt Schilling vs Roger Clemens

[TheKilo]

As it is currently constituted (rotation being as it is with Beckett coming back next week)...

 

June 1- Tim Wakefield vs Tyler Clippard

June 2- Julian Tavarez vs Chien-Ming Wang

June 3- Curt Schilling vs Roger Clemens

 

Tavarez is going to be skipped because of their off day IMO.

[TheKilo]

This game/series has a feel to it that the Red Sox are flat and the Yankees are coming to life.....typical....my only hope is we maintain this lead in the standings then match up Beckett and Matsuzaka in the upcoming fenway series.

 

I just think it's a product of Wakefield and Schilling having s***** starts. It happens.

 

If they got swept I'd agree with you. Losing one game is not a big deal. They're still going to be 9.5 up, even if they lose.

 

 

(But wouldn't it be an awesome comeback?)

[ORS]

Gopher for Crisp. LOL @ Farnsworthless.

[riverside sluggers]

I was not aware of that at all really, true makes sense with Beckett coming back. Sox want to keep Schilling, Beckett, Dice-K in that order

 

June 1- Daisuke Matsuzaka vs Tyler Clippard

June 2- Tim Wakefield vs Chine-Ming Wang

June 3- Curt Schilling vs Roger Clemens

[TheKilo]

I was not aware of that at all really, true makes sense with Beckett coming back. Sox want to keep Schilling, Beckett, Dice-K in that order

 

June 1- Daisuke Matsuzaka vs Tyler Clippard

June 2- Tim Wakefield vs Chine-Ming Wang

June 3- Curt Schilling vs Roger Clemens

 

I think it's going to be Dice-K, Schill, Beckett to bes honest with you. They have a day off tomorrow and the 31st.

[Sam Malone]

The Yankees really needed to sweep the Sox to feel better. Gaining one game is not a big deal.

[riverside sluggers]

Thanks Pineiro, he should be the one to go when Lester is ready to come back

[TheKilo]

Meh, 9.5

 

Win the Texas series.

[castigs850]

you cant win every series, and 9.5 is still real good. but with the lottery yesterday now the series loss to the yanks, thus far boston sports has had a sucky week.

[Peters34]

We will bounce back

By the looks by it Roger didnt show that he is ready to pitch to major leagers and the yankees are bring him up to fast

[jacksonianmarch]

The Yankees really needed to sweep the Sox to feel better. Gaining one game is not a big deal.

 

are you out of your goddamn mind?

 

Every yankee-sox game is a 2 game swing. A loss tonight would have put us 11 games back in the loss column. The win got us back into single digits.

[schillingouttheks]

are you out of your goddamn mind?

 

Every yankee-sox game is a 2 game swing. A loss tonight would have put us 11 games back in the loss column. The win got us back into single digits.

 

Well, the Sox have played one more game than the Yanks so far, and you're going to have to win that one game for it to truly be single digits.

 

Sure, the Yanks got going in the right direction with the series win, but you're still sitting 9.5 back. I honestly didn't expect to take 2. I wanted the Sox to take 1, and that would be a success for us. You gained 1 game on us after this series. And you're still pretty damn far behind.

 

Let me ask you one thing though to make sure that you're still holding true to what you've said: If the Yanks' deficit is double digits by the end of June 3rd, do you still think that the Sox will most likely win the East?

[TheKilo]

are you out of your goddamn mind?

 

Every yankee-sox game is a 2 game swing. A loss tonight would have put us 11 games back in the loss column. The win got us back into single digits.

 

Look, a sweep would have been the biggest momentum boost for the Yankees. They'd be 7.5 out and riding high.

 

But the fact that Julian Tavarez saved the series (well, him and Javier Lopez), means 3 days are off the calendar and you only gained one game. Winning 2/3 in the Bronx will always be a tough task. Just like next weekend, I expect the Sox to take 2/3.

[RedSoxRooter]

The Yankees really needed to sweep the Sox to feel better. Gaining one game is not a big deal.

 

 

I agree. The yanks won 2/3 at home against the Sox and only gained 1 game. I was only looking for 1 win this series anyway (I thought it would be the Wake game). So no biggy. On to TX and the Angels, respectively, with a 9+ game lead. I think I can sleep well tonight.

 

That said, the Yanks should not feel that great about themselves. Wake and Schill pitched terrible. I'm not saying the Yankee offense was bad, but it's not like they hurt us real bad when the pitching was on. When Menky hits a monster HR off Schilling, it's because Schill was off, not because Doug is a bad ass hitter.

 

Jackson says 10 games out after June 3 and he's calling it a season (or did you change that again??). I say 8 games by then and it's over.

[jacksonianmarch]

Let me ask you one thing though to make sure that you're still holding true to what you've said: If the Yanks' deficit is double digits by the end of June 3rd, do you still think that the Sox will most likely win the East?

 

Yes. These series are a chance to gain either 1 or 3 games in the standings. This series needed to come out in our favor. So does the next one. And I think that a double digit lead when we dont play you guys again until August would be way too much to overcome. If we tread water until our next series with you guys and then take 2 of 3, we are at the 8 mark, which at the beginning of June is not that bad considering where we were.

 

The point is, we need to keep chipping away. This series passed and we chipped one off the lead. Chip 2-3 games off per month and we can do it. Drop any further back and we cannot.

[jacksonianmarch]

I agree. The yanks won 2/3 at home against the Sox and only gained 1 game. I was only looking for 1 win this series anyway (I thought it would be the Wake game). So no biggy. On to TX and the Angels, respectively, with a 9+ game lead. I think I can sleep well tonight.

 

That said, the Yanks should not feel that great about themselves. Wake and Schill pitched terrible. I'm not saying the Yankee offense was bad, but it's not like they hurt us real bad when the pitching was on. When Menky hits a monster HR off Schilling, it's because Schill was off, not because Doug is a bad ass hitter.

 

Jackson says 10 games out after June 3 and he's calling it a season (or did you change that again??). I say 8 games by then and it's over.

 

I never said I was calling it a season. I said you guys would win the AL East. The Wild Card teams are much more flawed and much more likely to falter down the stretch.

[br3ds0x]

Just got back from the game. Fun night Was sitting right past 1st base 3 rows up. Some annoying guy behind me would yell something literally every pitch. Anyways he would always be yelling at Youk and a few times Youk actually talked back to him and joked with him. Pretty funny considering most guys just ignore the fans.

Funniest thing he said tho was when Pedroia was on 1st base he asked if he needed a high-chair. Then some drunk a few rows back yelled something to the effect of f you Pedroia you Fing such Arod will kick you ass. The first guy then yelled..sorry about that pedroia..lets just go back to the high-chair thing.

 

gotta take some humor from that game

[Gom]

I just got home too. Hit the bars after the game.

 

The truth is, the Sox didn't look too good in this series. They were never really in the games they lost, and the Yankees fell apart after yet another bad call by the umps this year that went against them. If not for that call, a sweep was definitely a possibility.

 

9.5 games is still a tremendous number to make up, but if there is one thing I took away from this series is that both Mussina and Schilling are finished as top of the rotation starters. To tell you the truth, Tavarez scares me more than Schilling at this point. In fact, the only way Schilling beats the Yankees this year is if he faces Mussina, or vice versa.

 

It seems like the Yankees have the rotation setup for the advantage again next series. I personally would like to see Dice and Beckett face off against Wang and Pettitte.

 

Anyways, a good series against the Sox for my boys. All I am hoping for is for a Sox lead of 5 games by July 1st. If we can make up 4.5 games in 5 weeks, it's a race. Other than that, it's over, IMHO.

 

You guys are making a huge thing of this Arod thing. He slid into second base, and bumped Pedroia. Big deal. I like baseball when it is played with a bit of an edge. I personally think umpires warning benches is ridiculous. Let the players police themselves.

 

Other notes from this series....

1)Farnsworth is garbage.

2)If you neutralize Papi, the Sox are most likely going to lose, and he looked most uncomfortable up there against Pettitte. It seems to me that Manny is having more trouble with that low outside slider than I have ever seen.

3)Tito stays with his starters a little too long, and Torre pulls them if their heart rate jumps over 60 beats per minute.

4) The Yankees seem to have figured out how to beat Wakefield.

5) Wang seems to have figured that against the Red Sox, throwing the same pitch 850 times in a row is a bad idea.

6) Arod is owning your pitching. Say what you want about clutch, etc., but if I were the Sox, I would walk that guy every time up. He has murdered you guys.

 

The Angels seem to have our number, so 2 out of 3 is nearly a must for us to build on this momentum.

 

That is all.

[riverside sluggers]

Gom... that first game against Wake the Sox ended up losing by just 1 run, was because of Wakefield's inept run support. The Sox were facing f***ing Kei Igawa and couldnt do anything against him. In his last 9 losses, the Sox have given him a total of 10 runs of support. But yep Wakefield throws the exact same pitch 850 times in a row and thats why he's a horrible pitcher. 15 years in the bigs, 155 Ws, he deserves to be kicked in the ass

 

Im sorry but Wang has figured out the Red Sox? He still allowed a lot of base runners in his last start and was beat by Tavarez last month. Dont forget also that he was opposed by Wakefield... good hunch he'll have luck on his side with Wakefield's bad luck with the Sox never backing him up with runs.

[jacksonianmarch]

Whoa bro. That wasnt me who made that post.