4/13 @ Oakland Lester Vs. Braden

[WhiskeyBreath]

2 nice pick offs in the inning.

[TheKilo]

Dallas Braden?

 

Are you f***ing kidding me?

[example1]

There's no excuse for a Nomar homerun

[rhet]

Yard.

Nomie

[TheKilo]

LOL

 

f***kkkkkkkkkkkk youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[RedSoxRooter]

Ahhh. Good for Nomar. I still root for the big lug.

[riverside sluggers]

Good to see the pitching & offense showed up... The top 3 of the order continue to go 0 for

[Keeper]

What would Ozzie do... start throwing his players under the bus and he'd call himself a terrible manager. It's almost a weekly occurrence here.

[RedSoxRooter]

It would be nice if Papi could hit an inside fastball as well as Nomie did tonight..

[rhet]

We have Nick Green ably filling in for Lowrie's popups.

[example1]

They have the players to win, they just suck right now. Ellsbury, Pedroia, Ortiz doing nothing. Even when one of them gets on (Pedroia) there's no assurance that the next player (Ortiz) will do anything productive. It is pretty weak.

 

How about

 

Ellsbury

Pedroia

Youkilis

Ortiz

Bay

Drew

Lowell

Varitek

Green

 

knock Ortiz down a spot and give Bay the 5 spot.

[rhet]

Come on Papi, right through the SS hole...

[rhet]

yeah

just like that

[TheKilo]

Drew blows

[TheKilo]

Need two this inning.

[TheKilo]

Wow can Lowell suck any more? Holy s***.

[TheKilo]

Wow.

 

Unbelievable how bad this team looks right now.

[a700hitter]

i didn't get to see much of tonight's game. Was Lester dicking around with his new changeup. He had just learned to master his current arsenal and he was tearing through the league. WTF made him think he needed an additional pitch at this point?

[DrewDaGreat]

Wow, this was terrible.

 

EDIT: it still is terrible.

[Teddyballgame10]

What the f*** was that

[riverside sluggers]

Entering tonight the Red Sox were 19th in baseball with a team ERA of 5.02...

[TheKilo]

i didn't get to see much of tonight's game. Was Lester dicking around with his new changeup. He had just learned to master his current arsenal and he was tearing through the league. WTF made him think he needed an additional pitch at this point?

 

I think like Beckett last year, hitters have adjusted to him and now we need to see how he responds to that.

 

Makes the contract signing even more mind-boggling, though.

[VA Sox Fan]

Wow can Lowell suck any more? Holy s***.

 

 

 

AVG OBP SLG

Pedroia .179 .258 .357

Drew .150 .190 .350

Lowell .154 .185 .346

Ortiz .208 .333 .208

 

The team is sucking as a whole (minus Youk) after 7 games (above are some examples). It's frustrating as hell. Lay off of Lowell for 5 minutes.

[a700hitter]

I think like Beckett last year, hitters have adjusted to him and now we need to see how he responds to that.

 

Makes the contract signing even more mind-boggling, though.

They are completely convinced that he is the real deal. I think he'll fine tune his stuff and after a couple of more starts he'll start dominating again.

[Mr Crunchy]

Good young leftys are worth a ton, this guy was arguably the best lefty in the game last year.

I just dont know at this point, there is no swagger on this club and these games count.

Someone needs to get excited, maybe Youk needs to throw a bat in the club house, maybe Ortiz needs to revert to Voodoo, I just dont know.

its been 1 week out of 26-30 weeks of baseball

these games count, the only saving grace and source of optimism i have is ny is in the same boat.

[riverside sluggers]

I was watching highlights of the game. Lester was hitting 91, 92. The fastball from last season has been replaced with the one we saw from 06-07

[BoSox21]

I was watching highlights of the game. Lester was hitting 91' date=' 92. The fastball from last season has been replaced with the one we saw from 06-07[/quote']

 

He was touching 94 regularly according to the gun on the Oakland feed

[diony]

Good young leftys are worth a ton' date=' [b']this guy was arguably the best lefty in the game last year.[/b]

 

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

Hopefully these first two games will quiet the dipf***s who thought Lester was the new ace of the staff.

[riverside sluggers]

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2009/04/why_not_to_worr.html?camp=localsearch:on:twit:sox

 

The Red Sox have a .250 avg of balls put into play