6/14 - Sox Beat Pedrito on Flag Day

[ORS]

FLAG DAY, BITCHES!

 

Timmeh will lead us up the mountain.

 

Onward, to victory!

 

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*No pirates were injured in the creation of this post

[Gom]

What the hell is flag day?

[yeszir]

Volquez scares the s*** out of me. Hopefully his walks catch up to him today.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Factoid: the current Red Sox roster has a .500 career batting average against Volquez.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Lineups:

 

Red Sox

 

Ellsbury-LF

Pedroia-2B

Drew-RF

Lowell-3B

Youkilis-1B

Crisp-CF

Cora-SS

Cash-C

Wakefield-SP

 

Reds

 

Bruce-CF

Janish-SS

Griffey-RF

Phillips-2B

Dunn-LF

Encarnacion-3B

Votto-1B

Bako-C

Volquez-SP

 

Varitek is still down; Manny is achy on his planned day off; Lugo was scratched due to a stomach ailment.

[ORS]

What about today's 4-pitcher lineup?

[ksushi]

Brutal line up tonight. Volquez should eat us alive.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Brutal line up tonight. Volquez should eat us alive.

 

The game will not be over for at least another nine innings. Right now, I foresee a pleasant but slightly boring game.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Jerry Remy is doing the game for Fox.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Hmmm...Ellsbury reaches, and a wild pitch to Pedroia.

[The Dustball]

Come on Pedroia, at least get the runner over...poor AB.

[Jayhawk Bill]

WooooHooo!!!!

 

1-0 Boston!!!!

[a700hitter]

Ellsbury's speed is an unbelievable weapon.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Come on Pedroia' date=' at least get the runner over...poor AB.[/quote']

 

Pedroia induced the pitch that got Ellsbury to second base...same as a Sac Bunt.

 

More to the point, Pedroia made solid contact for a change, even if it was a hard grounder to SS.

[a700hitter]

They need Pedroia to get going to kick the offense into gear.

[The Dustball]

Pedroia induced the pitch that got Ellsbury to second base...same as a Sac Bunt.

 

More to the point, Pedroia made solid contact for a change, even if it was a hard grounder to SS.

 

Haha yes I'm sure that Pedroia's intimidating figure caused the wild pitch. Either way at least we scored that inning!

[Cocos Disciples]

Ellsbury created that run 100% by himself.

[The Dustball]

Beautiful inning for Wakefield. You're not going to see Ken Griffey Jr strike out on a 58 MPH pitch very often.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Ellsbury created that run 100% by himself.

 

Dude, read Dustball's post.

 

Obviously, the image of Scrappy-Doo wielding a bat was intimidating to an unfamiliar young NL pitcher.

[Cocos Disciples]

Dude, read Dustball's post.

 

Obviously, the image of Scrappy-Doo wielding a bat was intimidating to an unfamiliar young NL pitcher.

 

Right, I forgot, Pedroia's 5'9" figure made Volquez piss himself.

[BoSox21]

wow, very heads up play by Wakefield

[Cocos Disciples]

That play reminded me of little league, when guys would just keep on running no matter what.

 

s***, Dunn HR, 1-1.

[Jayhawk Bill]

wow' date=' very heads up play by Wakefield[/quote']

 

Which saved a run.

 

Tie game.

[a700hitter]

I don't think that I'd ever seen that play before on a steal. That's why I love this game. After watching for 40+ years, I will still see something new.

[The Dustball]

If Papi is out for the season I wouldn't mind getting Dunn if the price is right.

[a700hitter]

Remy didn't sound optimistic about Ortiz's return.

[Jayhawk Bill]

Remy didn't sound optimistic about Ortiz's return.

 

True, but Remy isn't a sports medicine professional.

 

***

 

Dunn turned a fly out into a left-field triple.

[The Dustball]

Triple for Drew. Get him in Lowell.

[exsubmariner]

Way to mis play that one Dunnie boy. Now get him home Mikey

[Jayhawk Bill]

Wow...infield in. That's a tribute to Tim Wakefield--you wouldn't see an AL team doing this in the fourth inning, but the Reds don't know Timmay.

 

Darn. Lowell pops up.