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Baseball Musings
May 11, 2006
Red Sox Win

Typical Red Sox/Yankees game. Four hours to play nine innings. The Red Sox put a ton of men on base tonight. Starter Chacon allowed five hits and five walks over 4 2/3 innings but just one run. It wasn't until the sixth that the Red Sox started to score, overcoming a 3-1 deficit to take a 5-3 victory. All in all, Boston put 18 men on base via a hit or a walk, while New York managed 12. With no double plays or caught stealings, but teams left a lot on base tonight, and either could have scored a lot more runs. Boston is back in first place in the AL East.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:09 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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BERN BABY BERN!

Posted by: James at May 12, 2006 12:28 AM

Frustrating game...Boston loaded the bases 3 times, twice with 2 outs and once with 1-out, and didn't score a run. What made things even more irritating was the fact that when Boston had men on, they weren't necessarily putting up bad ab's...just hitting the ball right at people. Seeing Chacon face a real offense again, I've been further convinced that he owes most of his success to luck...you can't expect a pitcher with a WHIP of 1.53 and a k/bb of 24/19 to have prolonged success...NY fans should be very worried right now.

PS: He only threw 50% of his pitches for strikes yesterday, 52/52 in 4.2 innings. Awful.

Posted by: the other josh at May 12, 2006 02:04 PM

Also no mention of Rivera's coming in to keep the game close and giving up another run? Not a huge deal, but worth noting. Willie Harris hit a scorching line drive to right, moved to second on a groundout, and scored on a Youkilis soft liner up the middle. Mo's got a 1.27 WHIP and .283 BAA, with 17 hits and 2 walks over 15 innings. He's started slow before and finished the season his dominant self so it still probably doesn't mean anything...but who knows, the guy is 36, and threw almost 80 innings each of the last 2 years.

Posted by: the other josh at May 12, 2006 02:11 PM
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