May 26th @ Texas

[mtbykr]

Not a good way to start the 8th

[TedWilliams101]

they shouldn't have pulled wake...

[riverside sluggers]

Okajima up in the pen, Papelbon is not

 

Paps' last save came in game 1 of the DH against Detroit. Okajima had the save in the 2nd game

[ORS]

Lowell with the smoothness.

[TedWilliams101]

I just don't get this. Paps threw 9 pitches yesterday, Jima threw 12. Papelbon is our closer, not Jima. I love Jima, but come on. They better put Paps out there. They use him in a nonsave situation in the 9th last night, but no during a save situation tonight? WTF is going on in Tito's head?

 

Edit: Never mind. He's warming up now.

[riverside sluggers]

Good to see that Paps is up. Meanwhile, Mannys avg should be creeping over .300 in no time

[TedWilliams101]

Manny 4-4 tonigh, driving the ball to CF and LF. Looks like he's breaking out of the slump and from what we have seen in the past, he could get VERY hot very soon.

[ORS]

I just don't get this. Paps threw 9 pitches yesterday, Jima threw 12. Papelbon is our closer, not Jima. I love Jima, but come on. They better put Paps out there. They use him in a nonsave situation in the 9th last night, but no during a save situation tonight? WTF is going on in Tito's head?

 

Edit: Never mind. He's warming up now.

Haha, look at the mindf*** you went through just over a 3-run lead in the 9th. This is why everyone thinks you are a tool.

[mtbykr]

paps in, been a while since his last save

[mtbykr]

nice glove by lugo, and then did the right thing by setting his feet...and still blew the throw

[TedWilliams101]

Has anyone noticed that Paps FB velocity has been down a little the last few weeks. I haven't seen it top 93 in a while. Not a big deal, just an observation.

[mtbykr]

Has anyone noticed that Paps FB velocity has been down a little the last few weeks. I haven't seen it top 93 in a while. Not a big deal' date=' just an observation.[/quote']

 

All radar guns are different, so i wouldn't make a big deal out of it. Not to mention it's pouring there right now

[TedWilliams101]

That swing gave me a scare.

[mtbykr]

Nice win guys....that last out by laird was hit well, if it's not raining it might go

[riverside sluggers]

my heart rate rose as Coco kept going back toward the wall

 

Yess Sox win!! 33-15, season high 18 games above .500

 

Yankees down 11 1/2 games

 

Wakefield held the line as his team actually gave him run support this time around

 

Manny was the star of the game as he went 4 for 4 just missing a cycle by a HR. Youuk continues to be hot with an 18 game hitting streak

 

On to tomorrow, Tavarez bringing a broom with him?

[Cocos Disciples]

Nice win. Record is 33-15. Up 11.5 in the East. Sweep tomorrow.

[seabeachfred]

You're watching my back Riverside and I have to give kuddos to Tim because he righted the ship and gave us seven quality innings. Thank goodness our offense woke up in the sixth to bail him out and give him a chance to win the game. Face it Riverside, no matter what we say about our hitting, whether feast or semi-famine, if we can get the good solid pitching it will be the key to us winning this year. Eleven-and-a-half game lead is very very good even though my wife says I'm never satisfied. However, I keep saying that we have to keep putting as much daylight between us and the Yankees as we can manage, and not just for our benefit. It is also for the discomfort of the Yankees as well putting more and more pressure on them to turn it around. Still a long way to go but so far so good, and I'm getting the impression that this season the Red Sox mantra IS one game at a time. Tomorrow, no Papelbon so we have to have Okajima and Lopez ready. Pray tell, we don't have to call on JoEL, though.

[seabeachfred]

When the one pitch that defines who you are as a pitcher comes in at 66-68 mph and is entirely dependent, literally, on which way the wind is blowing, then that "one" inning shouldn't surprise anyone.

 

Nice, Coco. Keep the foot on the pedal, boys.

 

You know Red, when I coached baseball all those years I used to try and throw that damn knuckleball in batting practice, and I couldn't do a damn thing with it. When I played I had a good knuckle curve which I could control well but, of course, it was not held by the fingertips. One bad inning??? Well, it doesn't have to hurt if we back up Tim the way we came back in the sixth inning. :D :D :D :D

[seabeachfred]

congrats on winning the AL East guys. Check the yankee thread.

 

Jackson, if I didn't like you I would tell you to go to hell. Don't try sandbagging me or any other Red Sox fan. This thing is NOT over, not by a long shot. That is why I keep saying put as much distance between us and the Yankees as circumstances would permit. Yes, it will add a lot of pressure to the Yankees to get their game in order, but, hell, this is only May 26th. No sir, this is still very much wide open and I again implore the Red Sox to take it one game at a time and keep putting us much distance as we can between us and the Yankees.

 

We might get an assist from George Steinbrenner because he is clearly unhappy and can start to turn the screws if things don't change for his and your team, but, then again, I remember how his diatribe in 2005 turned things around for the Yankees, whether it was coincidence or not.

[seabeachfred]

This is the deadest game thread ever.

 

yeszir, I can speak only for myself but I'm still sort in a daze that we have driven out so far in front thus far. I would imagine some others are just as shocked as I am at the current turn of events. Is this really a 1965 or 1982 year for the Yankees? I refuse to believe that and when they get Hughes and Clemens they ought to be able to give us a run for our money. That is why this lead is so important; more importantly, we have to get our pitching fully healthy and ready for June and the summer. The problem is that there are so many good American League teams. You know what???? If the Red Sox were playing in that other league I would be inclined to tell the other teams to pack it in, but we're not so we have to keep chugging along one game at a time and, as I've said before, put as much distance between ourselves and the Yankees as we can. :D :D :D :D

[seabeachfred]

I just don't get this. Paps threw 9 pitches yesterday, Jima threw 12. Papelbon is our closer, not Jima. I love Jima, but come on. They better put Paps out there. They use him in a nonsave situation in the 9th last night, but no during a save situation tonight? WTF is going on in Tito's head?

 

Edit: Never mind. He's warming up now.

 

Ted, it is after the fact but I have to tell you that I had Tito figured out the last two games. The Yankees lost two in a row to the Angels and we had a chance to pick up two games with wins over the Texas Rangers. Francona went for it and it worked. Tomorrow we have Okajima for a couple of innings, but I wonder who else we can depend on after Taverez throws his usual five or six innings? It would be great if Julian can go seven and keep the bullpen from getting overworked. No Papelbon tomorrow. Hopefully Lopez can hellp the cause and maybe Snyder. No Pineiro, though. PPPLLLEEEAAAASSSSEEEE!!!!!

[Taliesin]

Melville. Fred, I've been trying to pin down your writing style and it finally hit me. Billy Budd. Not quite Hawthorne but a distinct 1800's flair.

 

In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant sailors in holiday attire, ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank, or like a bodyguard quite surround, some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation. That signal object was the "Handsome Sailor" of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies. With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the offhand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates

 

Herman could throw down some hyperbolic analogies. Oh right..on topic. Not one to upset the baseball gods, but clearly this Red Sox team is infinitely superior to the sewer rats in the Bronx. Mercenary roger or no mercenary roger. They ain't got "IT"...not now. Not this year.

[Mr Crunchy]

deep thinker

[Ray10]

Great game well pitched by Wakefield. The bats were alive and the Sox were able to take care of the chances that they got in the game. The whole team was solid from the first hitter to the 9th hitter. Let's hope they play this well again in the next game.

[seabeachfred]

Melville. Fred, I've been trying to pin down your writing style and it finally hit me. Billy Budd. Not quite Hawthorne but a distinct 1800's flair.

 

In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant sailors in holiday attire, ashore on liberty. In certain instances they would flank, or like a bodyguard quite surround, some superior figure of their own class, moving along with them like Aldebaran among the lesser lights of his constellation. That signal object was the "Handsome Sailor" of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies. With no perceptible trace of the vainglorious about him, rather with the offhand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates

 

Herman could throw down some hyperbolic analogies. Oh right..on topic. Not one to upset the baseball gods, but clearly this Red Sox team is infinitely superior to the sewer rats in the Bronx. Mercenary roger or no mercenary roger. They ain't got "IT"...not now. Not this year.

 

Tal, I'll leave it to you to diss the Bronx sewer rats as you put it. I have learned over the decades not to diss the Yankees and never underestimate them. Yes, if we play our best we will win this year but we have to play like that most of the time. I really hope you hit the nail on the head with the Yankees this year but it is still too early for me to make any long range predictions.

 

Melville???? He was a good author and I've always like him, especially his "Moby Dick". I used to write for the junior college and university papers when I was a student, and also wrote for a local paper until one day I was hired as a Recreation Leader and decided I wanted to work with kids as a teacher and coach. I guess I still have a little of that writer in me. Thanks for not saying Hawthorne. He is one author I have never liked. He was very anti-Lincoln during the Civil War and a staunch opponent of our greatest President and my personal hero. Of course, sometimes on this board if you are not clear in what you say some people misinterpret your words and then you catch hell for it.

[seabeachfred]

deep thinker

 

Crunch, "DEEP THINKER"?????? I guess to mean Tal. When it comes to baseball I usually let my emotions run rampant on me, especially if it is about the Red Sox. It looks like a good game is shaping up at YS today. Mike Mussina and John Lackey seem to have their stuff today. Let's hope that Julian has his and we give him enough support for him to win again this afternoon in Texas.