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Better enjoy him while you can before we trade him to Oakland for a reliever. j/k

You're gonna make a poor old guy cash out a social security check to cover a bet he made that he probably won't remember due to his old man syndrome?

Just don't make a gamethread unless the team loses the night before and you haven't made one in a while (assuming nobody has made one already). When the Sox win the person who made the gamethread keeps the mojo going. Just learn that rule and you should be fine. The rest you'll pick up along the way.

I looked it up and we had both exceptions to the rule tonight, the starter not making it 5 innings and the scorer giving the win to the reliever that pitched the most effectively. (While Miller did the best yesterday, Wilson got an out on 2 pitches so it's not like he was ineffective like Mortenson was today, although Mortenson didn't allow a run (thanks to Breslow) so I wouldn't have been upset it Mortenson got the win. In Major League Baseball, the winning pitcher is defined as the pitcher who last pitched prior to the half-inning when the winning team took the lead for the last time. There are two exceptions to this rule. The more common exception is that a starting pitcher must complete five innings to earn a win (four innings for a game that lasted five innings on defense). If the starting pitcher fails to meet the innings requirement, the official scorer awards the win to the relief pitcher who, in the official scorer's judgment, was the most effective. The second exception applies only to a relief pitcher who makes a "brief appearance" and is himself later relieved. If, in the official scorer's judgment, the relief pitcher was "ineffective", the win is awarded to the succeeding relief pitcher who was most effective, in the official scorer's judgment.[1] In the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, every pitcher is considered a relief pitcher for the purposes of this rule. For example, starting pitcher Matt Cain was awarded the win in the 2012 All-Star Game despite throwing only two innings.[2]

I don't get it. Dempster obviously didn't get the win because he went less than 5 innings, but since the Sox never trailed, it should go to the pitcher that came in afterward, which would be Mortenson. I remember you saying something about the scorer having discretion in choosing who wins based off of which reliever did the best (ie your comment about Miller getting last night's win instead of Wilson) If only the scorer had the same discretion for losses.

His WHIP is higher than his ERA, which for some reason weirds me out everytime I see his stats.

Is there a stat for who's leading the league in trades complained about? Dipre was hands down the leader of that category in Gom's league when we played. That said I think he does have a point.

And with his 1/3 Inning 5 ER performance his ERA shoots up to 3.98. And he's now 1-4.

Astros lose on a fly ball to shallow right where the 2B and RF collide. There were 2 outs so it should have gone to extras. Shades of Luis Castillo on this one. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/astros-dropped-fly-ball-gives-pittsburgh-walkoff-victory-084508758.html

Pants off dance off!!!

A win is a win, but we should have plastered the crap out of them. Still pissed we're 2-3 against them, but we have 2 very winnable games against them coming up.

All Middlebrooks has to do is move the runners over.

Hey Pedroia finally joins the hit parade.

Twins only have Roenicke, Pressly, and Swarzak left in their pen.

I feel like this is our chance to win it right here.

Hell of an outing by Miller. Very impressed with him lately.

The other problem is that a bunch of Minnesota's relievers used to be starters. Granted Duensing is already out of the game. But Perkins is in and Swarzak used to be starters so they can probably go multiple innings out of the pen. Their bullpen seems to be impressive this year.

This is Minnesota's 4th reliever already so if the game goes to extra's we might have an advantage. Then again with our bullpen it could easily end with a walk off.

I think with the exception of his 1/3 inning 3 ER outing against Toronto (on Sunday), he's pitched 8 scoreless innings. Those were the only runs he'd given up since his April 21st outing vs. KC.

Good job by Miller to get some key outs. On to the 9th still tied.

That was disappointing, we got runners on base just to strand them again.

Buch definitely pitched well enough to deserve the win. Nice to get the extra inning out of him. Hopefully we can score more runs off of the bullpen and win it.

At least we tied the game, although I have a feeling we should be winning by a decent amount at this point since we've put like a dozen people on base in 7 innings and only have 2 runs to show for it.

I'm watching via gameday so all I saw was "J-EZ singled on a grounder to CF deflected by the SS, Gomes scores."

I'm not sure if Victorino NEEDS the day off, but if it's just rest I'd consider pinch hitting him for Ellsbury, considering that a lefty is on the mound, the tying run is at 3rd, and Ellsbury just plain sucks. Edit: That said, Ellsbury singles (albeit on a grounder on the first pitch) to bring in the run. Nvmd.