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Baseball Musings
March 25, 2008
The Training Pays Off

I go take a shower, and the Red Sox score two runs. With Lugo and Ortiz on Manny hits his second two-run double of the game, giving Boston a 6-4 lead. It was a blast off the centerfield wall. It looks like Manny's winter regimen is paying off. That's all the Red Sox get as they go to the bottom of the tenth with Papelbon coming on.

Update: Barton battles Papelbon to a 3-2 count then draws a walk to start the inning.

Update: The A's have drawn seven walks in this game, but only one of those runners came around to score.

Update: Cust strikes out swinging. After being hit in the first, Cust goes 0 for 4 with 4 K.

Brown hits a double to right center that drives in Barton, but then gets caught in a run down between second and third. He throught the throw was going through, but it gets cut off and Brown is out. Once again, the A's hurt themselves with a base running blunder as Crosby lines a single to center that would have tied the game.

Update: Hannahan lines a single to left to put runners on 1st and 2nd with two out. Papelbon is looking extremely hittable in this inning.

Update: Suzuki grounds out to Youkilis to end the game.

The Red Sox did not pitch pretty in this game, but timely hitting by the Red Sox and a base running blunder by the A's give Boston the victory, 6-5. The crowd is happy as Okajima gets the win.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:32 AM | Opening Day | TrackBack (0)
Comments

Nice way to start the season. I was listening to the A's broadcast and they were moaning about E-mil Brown's baserunning blunder.

E-mil says his name should be pronounced with a heavy emphasis on the "E", as in "E-mail". How about E-rrant baserunning?

Posted by: Casey Abell at March 25, 2008 10:01 AM

You'll courteously refer to Boston as the World Champion Boston Red Sox please.

wtf was Brown doing? Unless he was going to be safe by a mile and had some sort of turf blowout what was he thinking?

Posted by: Bandit at March 25, 2008 10:44 AM

All really bad baseball teams share one feature in common, the ability to find a way to lose. The As let Dice-K pitch through a meltdown. They blow a save, and then run themselves out of a come back opportunity.

Looks like it is going to be a long summer in Oakland.

Posted by: thatteamfromcle at March 25, 2008 11:33 AM

Yeah, it must *feel* to A's fans like they lost on a base-running blunder, but the really excruciating part was getting just two runs out of all those free base-runners (plus a home run) early.

Posted by: James at March 25, 2008 12:08 PM

Generally you have to wait a good part of the year before a guy gets thrown out going for 3rd for the first out on the inning when you're down 1 run in extra innings.

Posted by: bandit at March 25, 2008 12:41 PM

Hey, it's only one game. If a scrub outfielder - who only played because Drew got one of his 44 million aches and pains - hadn't jacked one in the ninth, we'd be talking about Dice-K stinking with his control. And how the Sox rotation might not be so fearsome.

Come to think about it, we should be talking about that.

Posted by: Casey Abell at March 25, 2008 12:44 PM
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