Ortiz went 2 for 3, raising his batting average a hundred points so far this month by going 18 for 49 (.367). How many people here thought he still had it in him? I sure didn't.
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He does when he plays the Tigers.
Last week he killed them.
5-13, 2 hr and 6 rbi
2 hr's and 4 rbi in one game.
Do you remember Gates Brown? He played for the Tigers and hit about a thousand against the Red Sox.
Remember him well
I remember the Tigers catcher with the crazy batting stance (John Wockenfuss??) used to be an All-Star against the Sox............
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Over the years, teams have coveted they guy who kills them, but when they get him, the law of averages continues to hold and they are always disappointed. Dalton Jones used to hit against the Tigers. Among other things, he hit a game winning, tenth inning home run against them the year they lost the pennant to the Red Sox by one game, and I think he had his only career four or five hit game against them. so they traded for him, but he hit .220 for the Tigers the year they got him, which was identical to the .220 he hit for the Red Sox the year before, and he was out of baseball a few years later.
Well in this case, by acquiring Dalton Jones the Tigers at least stopped him from hitting so well against them!
Sandra
Red Sox ace Clay Buckholtz has thrown just 79 pitches through six innings. Look for him to go the distance if the lead holds up.
Red Sox slugger David Ortiz homered to account for their two runs.
Red Sox slugger David Ortiz homered to account for their two runs.
As I have been saying all along, it's WAY too early to write ANYONE off.
The yankees have in the past 5 years or so, gotten off to a very slow start and about the time you think old age is creeping in, they turn it around and put it together and make a push and eventually get in the playoffs (or very close).
I usually look around the All Star break ....
IF your 10 back your out.
5-7 is the most I would be optimistic about, depending on who it is.
And 20 hits!!!
What ticks me off is, how does a team go 6-2 on a road trip against the three best teams in baseball (NYY, PHI and TB), and come home and lose two in a row (including the aforementioned pitching debacle) to the AAA Royals??
That tells me that their heads are still not in this!!
And 20 hits!!!
What ticks me off is, how does a team go 6-2 on a road trip against the three best teams in baseball (NYY, PHI and TB), and come home and lose two in a row (including the aforementioned pitching debacle) to the AAA Royals??
That tells me that their heads are still not in this!!
Thats called "Playing to the Competition" lots of teams are guilty of that.
And 20 hits!!!
What ticks me off is, how does a team go 6-2 on a road trip against the three best teams in baseball (NYY, PHI and TB), and come home and lose two in a row (including the aforementioned pitching debacle) to the AAA Royals??
That 12 run, 20-hit debacle might have been a wake-up call.
They held KC to 1 run in the last two games.
"In a big game, you never want a knucleballer pitching for you and you never want a knuckleballer pitching against you."
- Old baseball saying.
Wakefield's knuckleball wasn't knuckling. It is simply impossible to manage a knuckleballer because, except when he is throwing all drainpipe balls, it is impossible to tell if he is losing it.
Beckett, for whom Wakefiled subbed, is scheduled to come off the DL in time for his next start, which gets pushed back a day because the Red Sox have Memorial Day off.
It is looking less and less likely that Wakefield will eventually get the 16 wins he needs to tie Cy Young and ROger Clemens for the all-time team record.
- Old baseball saying.
Wakefield's knuckleball wasn't knuckling. It is simply impossible to manage a knuckleballer because, except when he is throwing all drainpipe balls, it is impossible to tell if he is losing it.
Beckett, for whom Wakefiled subbed, is scheduled to come off the DL in time for his next start, which gets pushed back a day because the Red Sox have Memorial Day off.
It is looking less and less likely that Wakefield will eventually get the 16 wins he needs to tie Cy Young and ROger Clemens for the all-time team record.
Four team division race shaping up:
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EAST W L PCT GB HOME ROAD L10
Tampa Bay 35 18 .660 - - 15-12 20 -6 4-6
NY Yankees 32 20 .615 2.5 17 -7 15-13 6-4
Toronto 31 23 .574 4.5 15-12 16-11 6-4
Boston 30 23 .566 5.0 17-13 13-10 8-2Beckett had trouble throwing on Friday, so his comeback is put on hold, and Wakefield will start on Thursday.
Friggin' Blow-Jays blew another ninth inning lead to Tampa Bay tonight, giving up 6 runs in the ninth tonight, after surrendering four runs in the ninth last night.
Meanwhile the Dr. Jekyll/Mr Hyde season of Dice-K continued, as he pitched a solid game, walking none, after walking eight in his previous outing.
And Ortiz, named AL Player of the Month of May, homered again and is now slugging .599, which would put him in sixth place in the AL if he had enough at bats to qualify for that lead. Ortiz's slugging average through April was .286, but he hiked it up to .599 in just 33 calendar days during which he sat out four games because he was still being platooned, missed another because of the NL DH problem, and only pinch hit in yet another NL game. Amazing. I am tempted to start a pool picking which dates Ortiz takes over the AL lead in major offensive statistical categories.
Meanwhile the Dr. Jekyll/Mr Hyde season of Dice-K continued, as he pitched a solid game, walking none, after walking eight in his previous outing.
And Ortiz, named AL Player of the Month of May, homered again and is now slugging .599, which would put him in sixth place in the AL if he had enough at bats to qualify for that lead. Ortiz's slugging average through April was .286, but he hiked it up to .599 in just 33 calendar days during which he sat out four games because he was still being platooned, missed another because of the NL DH problem, and only pinch hit in yet another NL game. Amazing. I am tempted to start a pool picking which dates Ortiz takes over the AL lead in major offensive statistical categories.
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He may get even hotter ? and catch the leaders for the HR lead, but I doubt he'll be able to catch the RBI leaders, he's currently 16 behind.
There's still a lot of baseball left to be played, but Ortiz needs Ellsbury back and Pedroia to start getting hot....
