Toronto batted .667 againt Papelbon in the ninth inning tonight, but he got saved by a game ending, outfield assist at the plate. I know he's pitching better than he did last year, but I think he will be looking for about $15 million a year for four or five years, and I will be happier to see that money spent some other way.
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Wow, that play at the plate last night at the end of the game was a Jason Varitek broken leg waiting to happen. If Scott Cousins is the player trying to score, with the way Varitek was blocking the plate with just his planted leg, it could have made everyone forget all about Lawrence Taylor and Joe Theismann.
Varitek is one of my least favorite players in baseball, but I'm glad I didn't see that.
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I didn't
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I know......I know......I know......I know......I know......I know......I know......I know......I know.
CY....how 'bout those 2nd place Pirates...?! IN JULY!!!!
It's great but they still need a true power bat.
Wakefield hasn't yet given up a walk tonight through 5 innings, and he didn't give up a walk in his previous, 5.1 inning stint against Houston. He also has no wild pitches, no hit batsmen and only one passed ball per game for those two games, He also has given up now 19 hits in those 10.1 innings. I'd sure like to see some wild pitches, hit batsmen and walks, because when he has none, it means his knuckler isn't knuckling very much.
Update: two more passed balls and a walk. Now I feel better.
Update: two more passed balls and a walk. Now I feel better.
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Watching the Phillies vs. Marlins live... There is no doubt they are the best team in baseball from top to bottom, the Phillies are the scariest team in baseball.
Their starting pitching alone is the best staff in all of baseball and maybe one of the best staffs of all time. Most of them are not even having their best year
Tonight, baserunners advanced from first to second twice on Papelbon but the official scorer ruled those movements to be attributable to "defensive indifference" and did not award stolen bases. I say bull____, at least for the first one. In a two run game with one out and a runner on first, the team on defense is not indifferent to whether the runner advances from first to second because in doing so, it takes away the potential, game ending force double play. When I first started following baseball in the 1960s, rulings of defensive interference were rare. Now they are commonplace.
I agree, this defensive indifference is BS, not sure why or when it came about.
A stolen base is a stolen base, regardless.
Mike Stanton should be in the home run derby. Would also like to see the Mets' Camptown Races first baseman, Lucas Duda, Duda. Supposedly everything stops during batting practice to watch him blast home runs deep into the seats. Hasn't replicated that during games, but the Home Run derby is batting practice.
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They took BP in the new Marlins stadium as a promotion from where supposedly home plate is...and with the "sliding glass door" open to downtown Miami..some 470 feet away by most accounts...he hit 4 of them complete out of the stadium. The kid is built like Bo Jackson but a little thinner.... some say like former monster Glen Braggs.
They should bring in Way Back Wasdin, and Heathcliff Slocum as honary pitching staff captains for the home run derby.
The Red Sox brought Aceves in to pitch the sixth and seventh innings even though he has been designated to spot start in place of Lester this Sunday. Fortunately, he threw only fifteen pitches getting the side in order twice.
I don't know that I have ever seen a team get as much quality milage out of spot starters as the Red Sox have so far this year.
I don't know that I have ever seen a team get as much quality milage out of spot starters as the Red Sox have so far this year.
Glass half full: the Red Sox have the best record in the AL at 52-35, despite starting the season at 2-10
Glass half empty: the Red Sox lead the Yankees by only a half game in the AL East, despite going 6-0 at Yankee Stadium in the first half
Glass half empty: the Red Sox lead the Yankees by only a half game in the AL East, despite going 6-0 at Yankee Stadium in the first half
Rays-Yankees in NY has been ppd., and it's already raining in Boston.
Memo to Red Sox: SWING at EVERYTHING!!!
The Good news: It's now an official game
The Bad news: the Orioles have awoken, as it's now 8-3 in the 6th
The U-G-L-Y news: Josh Beckett left the game with what appears to be a knee injury. Hopefully it's nothing serious, but if it it is, that means the Sox top five starters are either hurt (Beckett, Lester, Buchholz and Dice-K) or mentally screwed up (Lackey).
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