MLB 2013 Season

I'm predicting that there will be two pinch hitters in the ninth inning, especially since the guy scheduled to bat first has a lifetime batting of .000 and the final scheduled batter is the pitcher, who has a lifetime batting average of .128.
 
I thought Ichiro had it (and so didn't Don Orsillo). :)

Seems like Any ball hit in the air to RF there has a chance to get out
As seen on espn.com:

Napoli's game-tying grand slam was calculated at 335 feet, and would have not been out of any other ballpark, according to ESPN Stats & Information. It was the shortest grand slam this season, and Napoli's shortest career home run.
 
Over the last three games the Red Sox have scored 41 runs. Unfortunately, the offensive fireworks will come to a screeching halt this afternoon in the Bronx. That has nothing to do with who will be pitching against them, it's who will be pitching for them. Seriously, if the Sox lose 2-1 today, I'll be convinced more than ever that they hate John Lackey! :)
 
..Napoli's game-tying grand slam was calculated at 335 feet, and would have not been out of any other ballpark, according to ESPN Stats & Information. It was the shortest grand slam this season, and Napoli's shortest career home run.

A couple of days ago, I was looking up something on Drew, and I saw that in the game I was reading about, he had hit a solid double that traveled about 370 feet on a line, whereas a teammate of his hit a 312 foot home run in the same game.

Guess who the last Red Sox player to have hit three grand slams in one season was. (Hint: his name is also the answer to just about every other Red Sox/Yankees historic trivia question)
 
... the Red Sox ...signed (Napoli) up for one year with a $5 million base and participation incentives that could enable him to make as much as $13 million. Napoli has already earned $11 million of that (and is assured of getting) the whole $13 million.

Was/is he worth it? He sure looked like he was in April when he had 27 RBI in 26 games, but he has been a strike-out prone slug since then, with just 10 to 13 RBI a month. Is a win in April worth as much as a win down the stretch? I guess so, but still, one hot month does not make a $13 million ballplayer. So far he is hitting about .500 for September, so maybe he can have a bookend season.


From today's Boston Herald:

From July 26 to Aug. 21, (Napoli) hit just .139. He missed two days with a sore foot, but since returning on Aug. 24, he has been a monster, hitting .410 with four homers and 13 RBI.

Those numbers should come as no surprise, given Napoli’s torrid September history. It’s by far the best month of his career, during which he has posted the best average (.302) and hit the most homers (35), with an OPS of nearly 1.100.

“I’m not afraid of (discussing his career success in the month of September),” Napoli said recently. “I like it. I can’t say that’s why I do good. It’s not like I’m trying to suck before it.”
 
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Today's Sox lineup

RF- Victorino
LF- Gomes
2B- Pedroia
DH- Ortiz
1B- Napoli
3B- Middlebrooks
CF- Bradley
C- Lavarnway
SS- Bogaerts
 

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L.C. Greenwood RIP

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