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Vasquez pulled after 3 innings and 4 runs. Tito would wait till the game was a decided blowout by waiting for 7 runs. He's try to get vasquez a W in a game like this. It's so annoying.
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Dangerous pitch. He almost coughed up a Grand Salami there.
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Vasquez is like BP today.
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4-2 Yanks after 1 inning.
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Home Run Derby Vasquez.
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Breslow k's Bartlett for the last out. The Yanks, Rays and Sox lose. The Sox don't lose ground, but with Lester on the mound against a bucket of s*** for the Jays (Cecil), they missed another golden opportunity to pick up a game in the standings. Lester looked much worse than Beckett tonight. That's really bad.
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Nice play by Pennington on the ball deflected by the pitcher. Two outs
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Former Red Sox Craig Breslow in for the 9th. He k's Aybar. Breslow would have been a nice lefty to have had in the Sox pen this season.
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Too bad Andrew Bailey is still on the DL.
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Zobrist just made a terrible error to allow the go ahead run to score.
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Benoit has thrown 37 pitches in this outing and he walked Ellis with 2 outs. Maddon is bringing in Cormier. He probably will not use him in the next two games.
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He allowed a double to kouzmanoff to make it 2nd and 3rd with no one out. A Sac Fly scored the tying run.
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3-2 Tampa after 3 innings
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The Rays take a first inning 2-0 lead.
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and unrelated to injuries.
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Lester's ERA went up 0.46 from tonight's game from 2.80 to 3.26. It will take a while to even out this game.
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7 RBI by Overbay.
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I wasn't addressing it, because I was lumping in all non-injury related losses and those (like the bullpen) don't even out. Also, our defense has been disappointing. I don't see that as evening out either. Our defense was supposed to get better, but it has been below average in the runs saved and other categories
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Somehow, you don't see this as being argumentative or confrontational. Well, it is. Anyway, I'm not avoiding anything. First of all, I am not limiting the discussion to games given away by errors and blunders. Many of those sloppy losses to which I am referring were due to the bullpen. That had nothing to do with injuries. Our bullpen has almost double the amount of blown saves as the Yanks and Tampa. That's the difference between being a playoff team and an also ran. As for the errors and blunders, they do tend to even out, but they never even out exactly. In a close race, being on the negative side of the ledger in one of these categories can make the difference. This year I think we are on the negative side of the ledger due to our 3rd base coach who has cost the team a few wins. I don't think the Yanks or the Rays have lost as many games due to their 3rd base coaching this season. I don't think has evened out. Peace brother.
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9 runs. That'll get Tito out of the dugout.
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Lester clearly doesn't have anything tonight, but he hasn't given up 7 runs yet, so he has to stay out there.
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LOL! I don't know what point you are trying to make about bringing up a post about Youk in April. How is that relavant to this discussion? Plus, I hadn't given up on this team in April. I didn't give up (most) hope until Youk got injured. I was concerned early in the season that they were digging such a big hole that they might not recover. Yes, that was my concern. They turned things around and closed the gap by the end of May. I never pulled the plug on this team in April. Others did, but I wasn't one of them. I was concerned and baffled about the way they were playing. I'll grant you that. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with you post.
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The point of my posts has been to discuss the reasons for missing the playoffs. I don't limit the reasons to the injuries. If we stay pat and think getting healthy will be enough, that will be a mistake. I don't know what you mean about giving "credit". Does that matter to anyone? The organization wanted post season ticket sales. I don't think they will be patting themselves on the back and giving each other credit for 2010. The fell short of their goal. They are not happy about it. I don't think my giving them credit will make them feel any better.
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