Boston Red Sox at Houston Astros, 1:05 PM CDT

Come on, Tejada. You gotta fuckin tag the runner if you get the ball before he gets there.

:p

that is embarrassing at MMP.

Whew.
Gave me a little scare there, Moehler.

Anyone with tv: What’s the strike zone looking like?

I saw this as an important game for the Red Sox afer the game last night. A losstoday shows a crack in the wall I figurd they would come with all barrels blazing.

Shutting the Red Sox down in the first was critcal to the Astros chances today.

ugh. He looked at a curve on the outside corner, and then looked at a 96 mph fastball at the same spot.

I know it’s Beckett.. but he probably would have done the same thing against anyone.

Beckett took only 5 minutes to go through the 1st, while Moehler took 20 minutes. Hey, Moehler “time of possession” isn’t a good stat in baseball.

First pitch outs! NOOOOO!

That 2B position is delivering lately!

HR!!!!

Beckett sucks. Send him to AAA, Red Sox.. :p

MUTHERFUCKER, GO HOME!

He’s gonna get on anyway.

1-1 Tie.

the best interleague records… they showed 8-10 teams and not one of them was from the NL

after his bad at bats the past month I’d gotten used to thinking, at least Berkman’s up next. but now I don’t have that to look forward to.

that being said, I have the feeling Tejada may be about to break out again. he’s been hitting in the low .200’s for a long time now and even if he’s old, he’s not that bad.

Miggy is not hitting too well recently, but the guy still lines out more than anyone i’ve ever seen.

hehe

And Pence bats…

ok, let’s get something going

giving him several v. wide strikes.

nice solid single up the middle. pile up those RBI’s.

JD said it was a change, same as he hit last night. Becket missed getting a glove on it by a hair.

Single up the middle. Bourn scores!

COME ON WITH THE DAMN WALKS!

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i’m glad he’s pumped, but people are going to get pissed.

i’ve noticed it several times

good w/ 2 outs.

i heard brownie or JD say yest that Ellsbury’s arm isn’t particularly respected. He turned but the throw was several feet off the bag and he made it easily. A good throw would have got him by a mile.

He should bat ahead of Tejada.

Don’t really care for this.

These games have been lasting a long time partly because Cooper has become switch-happy with bullpen pitchers. Reminds me of the excruciatingly long innings when LaRussa manages a close game.

having to read stupid promos for sitcoms when the games are on my20.

also for Bill Brown when he had to talk about the Best Darn sports show.

what’s new?

WHY ARE YOU SENDING OUT VILLAREAL IN A CLOSE GAME?

I’m just wondering.. or did he just hear he was pretty good or something?

3-0?

3-2 now..

but at least I can’t blame it on Coop.

...in only half of his outings.

3.38
Not surprised. Said in Spring Training he should have been a starter instead of Sampson.

on a routine grounder, but Beckett dropped the ball and then Bourn speeded up but it was too late. That isn’t the first time that Bourn has done it on the run the 1st base. In fact, I think Cooper warned him about that earlier in the year.

after Beckett bobbles the ball!!!!!!!!

Hit him, Brocail! Then pump your fist!

by mid-season.

Excellent work today.
The only blemish on the pitching today.. Villareal.

I was readin the chron.com (forget who.. Justice I think) and they said his father threw out the first pitch today and they would not let Aardsma catch it because he plays for another team.

He’s the Anti-Pedroia

You don’t HAVE to swing the bat every time the pitcher throws the ball. You can, like.. not swing if the ball looks like it might be too hard to hit.

I am beginning to appreciate them as an offensive weapon.

3-12 in this series… That’s like a .250 batting average.

high strike call on Blum..

We need a single!

Thanks, David!

I’d never seen that before… maybe I just don’t pay enough attention

Mark Loretta did not start at second today.

And hopefully in 10 minutes it will be time for the shoulder salute.

ARGH!
Come on!

We almost got away with out an out on that DP chance..

I recall the trade from Florida where it was said by many he was a salary dump so Red Sox could get Beckett.

Now he’s in this third superb year with the Red Sox.

Third series win in a row!

Bring on the Yankees!! ( Or whoever the Astros play next)

That felt good!

And three straight series wins!

2 days in a row against the Red Sux. :p

In the post -game wrap up, Milo Hamilton refereed to him as a “Gopherball Manufacturer”

awesome that we managed to win this series. going into it, i was really more worried about whether or not we would get swept. i’m SOO glad the 5,000 or so (maybe more like 10,000 or more) Red Sox fans at the game yesterday had to go home with their World Champion team getting outshined. i know quite a few of them here and in Massachusettes, so i’m glad i have a series win in my pocket to shut their bandwagon jumping asses up (i know there are a lot of hard core, died in the wool, Red Sox fans out there, but none of the ones i know are).

as bleak as the season looked ten days ago, these last three series have been very reassuring. our next four series before the all-star break are all against teams with losing records (three of which are about where we are), so definitely very winnable, but three of them come on the road. it’d take a 9-4 record in that stretch to get us back above .500, but 8-5 would put us just a game under and is probably the bare minimum to be gunning for. i’m not saying that this is a playoff bound club right now, but we’re finally getting some consistently good starts out of three of our five rotation guys (i’d take 5-6 innings and 3 runs from Runelvys, if we can continue to get it). our bullpen isn’t ironclad by any means, but we’ve got 3-4 guys you can count on more often than not, so i feel okay about them. really, if our offense can just stay in a rythm and not go into any more long sustained droughts, i don’t see why we can’t get seriously into the wild card race.

anyway, it’s good to temper some of the anguish and desperation that we were all feeling for much of June. hopefully July will be a bounceback month for us. the schedule is pretty favorable for it.

Go Astros!