2009 Regular Season Discussion Thread

zuutroy

David Ortiz is really having one sick season. There I tempted fate, now let it rain!

juvenal

Nice throw to get Rios out trying to steal second, after getting on base with a slow-roller infield hit.

Solid start by Wakefield.

zuutroy

Yeah I hate watching Wakefield. Terrible awkward swings everywhere.

zuutroy

Don Orsillo is the King of baseball commentators.

EDIT: After Vin Scully obviously!

juvenal

Ended up being a real pitchers duel tonight, and Wakefield takes the win as the BoSox win 2-1. Papelbon goes 1-2-3 to get his eleventh save of the season.

Yankees look to be continuing their streak as they hold a comfortable lead in the Bronx against the Orioles. Hopefully that will end tomorrow! I'd love to see both the Red Sox and the Blue Jays make the postseason this year.

Mad_Max

looks like somebody poked the bear!!! Our offence is coming

zuutroy

Another ugly game for Toronto. I would been happy to take one away from this series, so it'll have to be tonight. Things are getting awful tough at the top now. Hope they can keep rolling along, even though it looks like cracks are starting to appear

Mad_Max

zuutroy wrote: »

Another ugly game for Toronto. I would been happy to take one away from this series, so it'll have to be tonight. Things are getting awful tough at the top now. Hope they can keep rolling along, even though it looks like cracks are starting to appear

Now now, don't jump off the bandwagon as quick as you got on

All seriousness though if they're to stick it out they can't drop many more series to division rivals. Yanks and Sox won both series against them now.

Waitsian

zuutroy wrote: »

Another ugly game for Toronto. I would been happy to take one away from this series, so it'll have to be tonight. Things are getting awful tough at the top now. Hope they can keep rolling along, even though it looks like cracks are starting to appear

Come on Zuut, I thought better of you. It's just two games mate, at Fenway. Long ways to go yet. Tallet actually pitched well the other night, and it was close. Never judge your team on one performance against a knuckleballer! As for last night, Cecil was bound to slip up. As a rookie I'd say the pressure got to him, he's human. Not the end of the world, he'll bounce back. We still have tonight's game, and if we win, we take one off them on the road. Even if they sweep, we're still top of the division. We gotta hope that the first six weeks will be the norm going forward, and we'll take later series off the Yanks and Sox (especially at home). Wells has to start hitting soon, and with Janssen and Litsch (and possibly Romero) back shortly, we'll be alright.

zuutroy

OK, over-reaction maybe...but getting swept out of Fenway and being 1-5 vs Yankees and Sox wouldn't exactly bode well!
Watching Wells has been horrible.....

zuutroy

Oh FFS...game over..........:( Rios has another slip up out there.

zuutroy

I didn't know Jerry Remy was out long term recovering from cancer...hope he comes back!

Also..This series is depressing..Hitters looking 08 style out there, wilting when it matters.

Waitsian

zuutroy wrote: »

Oh FFS...game over..........:( Rios has another slip up out there.

Rios has looked completely disinterested since day one - I hope he's traded. Terrible attitude imo. Pity the Lincecum/Rios trade wasn't pulled off by J.P.

zuutroy wrote: »

Also..This series is depressing..Hitters looking 08 style out there, wilting when it matters.

They've looked horrible the whole series. Hopefully it picks up against the Braves and the O's and we pay the Sox back at the Dome end of the month.

zuutroy

I really know nothing about the NL....know about 3 players in the Braves lineup

zuutroy

Mad_Max

zuutroy wrote: »

I really know nothing about the NL....know about 3 players in the Braves lineup

Whats the NL??? Who are these strange teams playing this week???!? :pac:

zuutroy

Mad_Max wrote: »

Whats the NL??? Who are these strange teams playing this week???!? :pac:

Jays bats have gone totally silent.

Mad_Max

Hilarious stuff on fox here.

Phillies rookie maybery hits his first homer and Fox zoom in on his dad....or who they thought was his dad. No they just picked a random guy celebrating the homer and said yep thats the dad :P

Credit to them though they took it well

zuutroy

Ugh A-rod ties it up....sick. He really didn't need to juice. Cmon Phillies regroup!

zuutroy

FFS

Mad_Max

Gas stuff..we can't hit a reliever making his first start then get 3 off one of the best closers in the game.

If arod ever juiced in this park he'd hit a gazillion homers to right.

zuutroy

What a masterclass in mediocrity the Blue Jays turned into overnight.

zuutroy

God this is torturous.

zuutroy

Ugh warning track shot there from Ortiz with bases loaded gave me a scare!

zuutroy

Has mlb.com been terribly slow for anyone else over the past few days?

Neil3030

Was a bit hoppy for me last night now I have to say, but it may have been my Internet connection. I'll keep tabs.

zuutroy

It actually turned out to be a virus on my desktop. Sorted now!

Nice performance last night by the Jays showing they're not done yet. Bizarre 7th inning from Doc though!?

Anyone else infuriated by the new ultrashort condensed games?

zuutroy

Hehe...offence helped Roy's run at the Cy Young last night

juvenal

Outstanding performance from Jon Lester tonight who recorded a complete game and retired the first 19 batters, as the Red Sox beat the Rangers 8-1.

Lester was perfect through 6 innings, with 10 strikeouts. With one out in the seventh, Michael Young hit a double to break up the perfect game. Lester walked a batter in the seventh and another in the ninth, before Young got his second hit of the night. Andruw Jones hit a sac-fly to centrefield to score Elvis Andrus, before Lester got Nelson Cruz to fly-out to end the game.

Lester threw 107 pitches tonight, with 72 strikes and 35 balls, with 2 hits, 2 walks, and 11 strikeouts. A great performance as the Red Sox go clear on top of the AL East as the Rays scored 4 runs off Mariano Rivera in the top of the ninth to beat the Yankees 9-7.

Neil3030

Doc was inspiring today. Why can't he pitch every day?

juvenal

Great win for Boston tonight, shutting out the Yankees in a rainy Fenway, with Beckett pitching through six giving up one hit and striking out 8.

Burnett had a rough time, only last 2.2 innings before being pulled.

Ortiz hit a two-run shot in the second, and Nick Green added a solo shot in th 7th. Young Daniel Bard came out in the ninth and started throwing serious heat, retiring Teixeira, A-Rod and Cano in order to close out the game, with two pitches clocked at 99mph and another pair clocked at 100mph.:eek:

Blue Jays are also having a good night as they lead the Rangers 9-0 in the bottom of the 8th.

mcowhey

Big game tonight for the sox to try make it 8 - 0 over the yanks which would be simply lovely. Sabathia on the hill should be interesting haven't seen him with the yankees yet.

Be very nice to see papi blaze one over the wall early in this game, i'd even take a sloppy single anything to try bring the mans confidence up. Either way gonna enjoy this one

Lets go Red Sox

eagle eye

And a homer for Big Papi makes it 1-0 as we speak heading into th bottom of the 3rd.

Mad_Max

It's just getting annoying now at this stage

Have to say though if papi continues to think he needs a curtain call after each homer he'll find himself getting beaned very quickly.

zuutroy

Ugh Halladay out with an injury in the 4th..I hope its a day to day thing

Sea Devils

LOL at the Mets.

Mad_Max

Sea Devils wrote: »

LOL at the Mets.

No LOL at the cubs. Check out bradley in these two plays

The second is a dinger

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5021327
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=5021327

eagle eye

Red Sox 8-2 over the Marlins. Ortiz had a two RBI single and a homer as well. Thats four HRs for him in his last nine games.

eagle eye

Daisuke:(

What is going on with him? Its gotten serious at this stage.

mcowhey

haven't a clue man he's on the DL now from what i gather, also heard last night during the braves game that he hasn't eon at Fenway since september i know he's prob only played four or 5 since then at Fenway but still

Mad_Max

That had to have been the most widely predicted DL trip ever. Think I read about a month ago that he'd be on the DL this week....*IF* smoltz were to fall apart I suspect he'll find the medicine water.

mayordenis

Tampa Bay getting absolutely brutalised.
Mets game stopped for a bit due to rain back on now though, losing thank ****.

eagle eye

A huge win for the Sox against the Nationals last night.

On the pitching situation I think Smoltz is ready because I was expecting them to bring Clay Buckholz back up. He has been in seriously good form for the pawsox with an era of 1.93 in 12 starts.

zuutroy

Going to Boston next Friday for one night to watch Sox and Mariners. First class all the way. Pilot mates ftw!

Hynzie

Santana looked alot better for the Mets today against the Cards. Hopefully hes coming out of that little slump.

mcowhey

zuutroy wrote: »

Going to Boston next Friday for one night to watch Sox and Mariners. First class all the way. Pilot mates ftw!

can i be the first to say jammy git

zuutroy

mcowhey wrote: »

can i be the first to say jammy git

Have tickets for the infield grandstand...Halladay jersey and Jays' cap will be worn with defiance! Looks like it's Wake vs Felix. I'll settle for that!

Mad_Max

Howd you get the ticks zuu?

Been tryin to get tickets to A's @ Sox for the end of july but cant use stubhub outside us

zuutroy

Mad_Max wrote: »

Howd you get the ticks zuu?

Been tryin to get tickets to A's @ Sox for the end of july but cant use stubhub outside us

Not sure...my mate just told me he had two...unfortunately they're 2 seats apart, but hopefully we can shuffle some people around.

Sea Devils

The All-Star Starting line-ups:

American League
C Joe Mauer, Minnesota
1B Mark Teixeira, NY Yankees
2B Dustin Pedroia, Boston
3B Evan Longoria, Tampa Bay
SS Derek Jeter, NY Yankees
OF Jason Bay, Boston
OF Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle
OF Josh Hamilton, Texas

National League
C Yadier Molina, St. Louis
1B Albert Pujols, St. Louis
2B Chase Utley, Philadelphia
3B David Wright, NY Mets
SS Hanley Ramirez, Florida
OF Ryan Braun, Milwaukee
OF Raul Ibanez, Philadelphia
OF Carlos Beltran, NY Mets

The Cards have a few hometown starters in there.:)