Boston Red Sox v Tampa Bay Rays 9/15

[Thumper]

Cora pinched ran for Lowell?

 

Tito, put in the young guys for once. For f*** sake give them some play time. Especially with this lead.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Remy: Tonight is starting to resemble some of the games of the past here at Tropicana.

 

Fo rizzle.

[TheKilo]

Cora pinched ran for Lowell?

 

Tito, put in the young guys for once. For f*** sake give them some play time. Especially with this lead.

 

Who should he have put in instead?

[Youk Of The Nation]

Who the f*** is Justin Ruggiano? For that matter, who the f*** are three-quarters of their roster?

[Thumper]

Who the f*** is Justin Ruggiano? For that matter' date=' who the f*** are three-quarters of their roster?[/quote']

 

Lucky f***ers.

[Cocos Disciples]

9 home runs tonight, 13-5.

[TheKilo]

News flash - Chris Smith sucks.

[German_Sox]

chris smith does that every inning

[Thumper]

Think Tropicana needs more cowbell?

[TheKilo]

Ok, So Timlin can pitch with an 8 run lead

[VA Sox Fan]

Ok' date=' So Timlin can pitch with an 8 run lead[/quote']

 

[Thumper]

Ok' date=' So Timlin can pitch with an 8 run lead[/quote']

 

Yeah, he'll only give up about 4-5 runs before he's pulled, giving us all a massive coronary in the process, before Papelbon or Masterson comes in and pulls us out of cardiac arrest.

[BoSox21]

statement game from the Sox tonight

[Cocos Disciples]

Awesome, tied for 1st now.

[TheKilo]

Yeah' date=' he'll only give up about 4-5 runs before he's pulled, giving us all a massive coronary in the process, before Papelbon or Masterson comes in and pulls us out of cardiac arrest.[/quote']

 

Or, you know, zero.

[Thumper]

Or' date=' you know, zero.[/quote']

 

No complaints here.

[VA Sox Fan]

Impressive win!

[VA Sox Fan]

But what's up with Pedroia, Lowrie and Coco not hitting a HR?

[BoSox21]

Timlin is the ultimate garbage inning pitcher these days

[The Dustball]

Kazmir was about as un-clutch as you can be tonight. Hell of a win. Take the division tomorrow and never look back.

[Cityofchampions33]

I'm almost worried we'll over-focus on winning the division instead of resting our starters which served so well last year. I would almost rather concede than go into the final week having Lester etc. going deep into games.

[CrespoBlows]

No complaints here.

 

Fail

[TheKilo]

I think if you can get the opening series at home against the ALC winner it is the best course of action, rather than going to LAA

[riverside sluggers]

Woohooo!! Tied for 1st place, next matchup is Beckett vs Sonnastine... me like

 

Dice earns his 17th W (has a chance to win 19 this year) and the offense lit up the Rays ace and bullpen... 13 runs mostly coming off of 6 HRs. Let the good times roll

 

Daiuske Matsuzaka (8 games vs Tampa Bay, 2-3 with a 3.75 ERA---Career at Tropicana Field in 5 games, 1-2 with a 3.41 ERA)

Akinori Iwamura, 9 for 24 (.375 avg) Double, HR, RBI, 2 Walks, 7 Ks

Jason Bartlett, 1 for 11 (.091 avg) Double, RBI, 4 Ks

Carlos Pena, 5 for 16 (.316 avg) 2 Doubles, HR, 4 RBIs, 7 Walks, 6 Ks

Evan Longoria, 1 for 2 (.500 avg) RBI, Walk

Cliff Floyd, 0 for 5, RBI, Walk, 2 Ks

Dioner Navarro, 3 for 18 (.167 avg) HR, 2 RBIs, 5 Ks

Eric Hinske, 0 for 5, 2 Walks, 3 Ks

Gabe Gross, 2 for 4 (.500 avg) Walk, K

Fernando Perez, 1 for 2 (.500 avg) K

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Willy Aybar, 1 for 3 (.333 avg) RBI

Jonny Gomes, 2 for 13 (.154 avg) Walk, 4 Ks, 2 SBs

Dan Johnson, 0 for 4, 2 Ks

B.J. Upton, 1 for 13 (.077 avg) HR, 2 RBIs, 2 Walks, 4 Ks, 3 SBs

Ben Zobrist, 0 for 6, Walk, 3 Ks

 

Scott Kazmir (21 games vs Boston, 6-7 with a 3.63 ERA---Career at Tropicana Field in 59 games, 20-14 with a 3.16 ERA)

Coco Crisp, 9 for 30 (.300 avg) 3 Doubles, 5 Walks, 10 Ks, 2 SBs

Dustin Pedroia, 14 for 25 (.560 avg) 2 Doubles, Triple, HR, 3 RBIs, 4 Walks, K, SB

David Ortiz, 8 for 39 (.205 avg) Double, 2 HRs, 8 RBIs, 5 Walks, 10 Ks

Kevin Youkilis, 7 for 35 (.200 avg) 3 Doubles, 2 RBIs, 6 Walks, 13 Ks

Mike Lowell, 9 for 35 (.265 avg) Double, 4 HRs, 7 RBIs, 4 Walks, 9 Ks

Jason Bay, 3 for 9 (.333 avg) Double, HR, 2 RBIs, 2 Walks, 4 Ks

Jed Lowrie, 0 for 2, 3 Walks

Jason Varitek, 6 for 29 (.207 avg) Double, HR, 4 RBIs, 8 Walks, 10 Ks

Jacoby Ellsbury, 4 for 14 (.286 avg) Double, 2 Ks, SB

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Jeff Bailey, 0 for 2, K

Kevin Cash, 0 for 2, Walk, 2 Ks

Alex Cora, 2 for 7 (.286 avg) RBI, K

Mark Kotsay, 2 for 12 (.167 avg) RBI, 3 Ks

 

Matsuzaka this season vs Tampa Bay in 3 games, 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA. At Tropicana Field in 2 games, 1-0 with a 1.80 ERA. On the road in 12 games, 8-0 with a 2.61 ERA

 

Kazmir this season vs Boston in 4 games, 0-2 with a 9.00 ERA. At home in 13 games, 7-2 with a 3.16 ERA

[BoSox21]

I dont think anyone should be worried when Kazmir pitches against us anymore

[Mr Crunchy]

you wonder when looking at kazmir last night if the mets had seen something in his psych profile that would move them to trade the young stud for a suck bag like victor zambrano.

i worked on beacon street in the same building as harvey kooperman,a shrink who would be flown all over the nation to interview prospects,potential draft pix and sought after free agents.

the man who pitched for tampa last night was completely disinterested in the game at hand and if you cant get up for the biggest game in their franchise history what then will it take to get motivated?

he was god awful opening the game with 9 straight balls to get to papi??

the over under was 8 last night.

mr crunchy laid the wood in and made a killing,then he decided that the under in the cowboys game was just as easy...somedays its diamonds and some days its stones.

look for beckett to run thru these guys like s*** thru a goose tonight.

[Paradisecity]

you played the under last night?

 

Why?

 

 

 

Re: kazmir- I don't think he was disinterested- I think he was frozen out of the strikezone. The ump was calling strikes that he called balls earlier in the game- those first 3 ABs it looked like there was a 3 inch by 3 inch strikezone- that'll rattle lots of pitchers.

[VA Sox Fan]

Kazmir looked out of it when he missed the play covering first on Ellsbury's hit.

[Mr Crunchy]

i played the under in the nfl game because the eagles defense had owned the cowboys,romo in specific over the last 4 games....took the eagles from 6.5 to 12.5 and under 52.5.

it was house money

i had the stones to go over the sox game which was at 8 and +105.

dice looked very sharp by the way,the other guy fortunetly left his head at home.

that total was made before the football game started thankfully because much to my amusement they were on pace for 160 points with 10 to play in the 2nd quarter.

[BoSox21]

I'm almost worried we'll over-focus on winning the division instead of resting our starters which served so well last year. I would almost rather concede than go into the final week having Lester etc. going deep into games.

 

do you really think a legitimate argument can be made that the Sox have been over-working their starters?