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July 19, 2012

Last Second Win

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Cody Ross hits a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to turn a 1-0 deficit into a 3-1 Red Sox win over the White Sox. Jose Quintana came out of the shutout having thrown 103 pitches, showing the danger of changing pitchers. Boston picked up three hits in the inning, the final one an Oritz like blast into the Monster seats.

Clay Buchholz was in line to be the tough-luck loser as he allowed just one run in eight innings, walking one and striking out six. He’s given the Red Sox quality starts in five of his last seven games.

May 21, 2012

Another One Bites the Dust

The Red Sox lose another outfielder as doctors diagnose Cody Ross with a broken foot:

Ross, who fouled a pitch off his foot Friday night, returned to Boston to undergo an MRI exam that revealed a fracture of the navicular bone, according to manager Bobby Valentine. The Red Sox [team stats] aren’t guessing how long Ross will be sidelined, with Valentine explicitly saying they aren’t putting a timeline on his return, although they have experience with navicular fractures. Dustin Pedroia [stats] broke the navicular bone in his foot in June 2010 and eventually required surgery, missing all but three games the remainder of the season.

The Red Sox now have outfielders Carl Crawford, Jacoby Ellsbury, Ryan Kalish, Darnell McDonald, Jason Repko and Ross on the DL. Pretty soon they’ll be bringing up players from rookie league to fill in.

April 24, 2012

Big Hits When He Can Get Them

Cody Ross hit two home runs for the Red Sox Monday night, the last one in the top of the ninth breaking a 5-5 tie and sending Boston to a 6-5 win over the Twins. Of his five home runs this season, the game winner was his first solo shot. The interesting thing is Ross is just 6 for 29 with men on base, four of those hits going for homers and one of them a double. When he hits in that situation, he hits big, but he also leaves quite a few ducks on the pond.

January 24, 2012

Quote of the Day

A commenter at The Soxaholix writes in reference to the Cody Ross deal:

He had one hell of a half of a season in 2007. But don’t worry, Bobby V has a way of discovering hidden talent. Coincidentally, most of the talent on the 2012 roster is well hidden.

January 24, 2012

Ross Replaced Drew

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The Red Sox are about to sign Cody Ross:

Cody Ross agreed to sign with the Boston Red Sox, giving them an experienced hitter with postseason success on his resume to help replace J.D. Drew in right field.

Foxsports.com and ESPN.com reported the contract is for one year and $3 million. Ross told The Associated Press in a text message late Monday that the deal won’t be finalized until he takes a physical.

This signing almost makes me think the Red Sox are trying to make their fans miss J.D. Drew. The Media in Boston had nothing but criticism for the Drew deal, even when J.D. played well. It turns out he was overpaid as injuries caught up with him the last two seasons. He did produce the first three years of his contract.

Ross is seasonal age 32, and appears to be on the down swing. Maybe he bounces back from an off year, but I don’t think he’ll be a two-WAR player. If he plays tough and scrappy, however, the press will love him. Maybe the whole point of Ross is to reduce press criticism of the team.

Theo Epstein didn’t care about that. He cared about building a winner. I have to say that I’m not that impressed with the new regime so far.

September 17, 2011

Ross Hurt

Cody Ross will miss a week of play with an injured hamstring. Ross hasn’t hit well for the season but is hot in September.

March 24, 2011

Bovine Boo-Boo

Cody Ross will start the season on the disable list.

Ross said an MRI confirmed the medical staff’s original diagnosis of a strained right calf. The prognosis: “They said probably three weeks, give or take.”

Right now, it doesn’t look like Brandon Belt will get the call-up while Cody recuperates.

October 31, 2010

Ross Walks

Cody Ross takes four pitches for a walk leading off the top of the second. So far, the lead-off man reached in all three half innings, but none have scored yet.

Update: The first base umpire blew a call on a double play ball. Travis Ishikawa was out, but his foot was over the bag. Not a horribly bad call, but the wrong call nonetheless. There are two out for Edgar Renteria with a man on first.

Update: Renteria works the count to 3-2, then lines a single to rightfield. With Ishikawa running, he gets to third on a hard hit ball.

Update: Nate Schierholtz hits a fly ball to shallow center, and Josh Hamilton comes on to make a diving catch and save a run. There’s no score going to the bottom of the second inning.

October 28, 2010

First Hit

Cody Ross doubles with one out in the bottom of the second, the first hit of game two. Ross picks up his 13th hit of the post season, five of them doubles and four home runs.

Update: Ross gets to third base but can’t score. The game remains scoreless after two innings.

October 23, 2010

Cody Ross MVP

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Cody Ross wins the NLCS MVP. He kept banging out extra base hits. He collected three doubles and three home runs out of seven hits total. He was an unlikely MVP, as San Francisco claimed him to block San Diego, and expected the Marlins to pull him back. Instead, Cody goes to the World Series after a big NLCS, keeping up his hitting despite an injured wrist from a hit by pitch. He might replace David Eckstein as everyone’s favorite gritty player.

October 23, 2010

Ross Playing Hurt

Cody Ross is playing through an injury:

The bone was so bruised by the plunking that Ross required X-rays, but the injury wasn’t enough to keep him out of Game 5?s lineup against Roy Halladay. He went 1-for-4 with an RBI double and three strikeouts in Thursday’s loss.

We’ll see if the Phillies try to take advantage of this. Of course, Ross might be trying to convince the Phillies that the injury is worse than it is, so they do challenge him. Most players try to hide injuries when they’re playing through them. That’s why we often find out after the season that someone needs surgery.

October 21, 2010

Double Burrell

Pat Burrell doubles with one out in the fourth to bring up the sore wristed Cody Ross. He takes the ball the other way for a double down the rightfield line, and that cuts the Phillies lead to 3-2. That gives Ross eight RBI in nine post-season games.

Update: Ross is thrown out trying to tag up on a fly ball to right. Werth threw him out easily, the ball just wasn’t that deep. The Giants lose a runner in scoring position and end the inning trailing 3-2.

October 21, 2010

The Sweet Spot

At Baseball Analytics, I look at the Philadelphia pitchers hitting Cody Ross’s sweet spot.

October 20, 2010

Cody Conked

Cody Ross is hit by a pitch leading off the second. I’m sure it’s Blanton’s wildness, not all those homers Cody hit in the series. He’s a second as Pablo Sandoval grounds out to first.

Update: Fox just showed the replay of the pickoff, and it was pretty clearly a balk by Madison Bumgarner.

The Giants don’t in the second as Aaron Rowand and Bumgarner strike out.

October 17, 2010

Ross Does it Again!

Cody Ross breaks up Roy Oswalt‘s no-hitter with his third home run of the series. That ties the Phillies at one. This is the third time this post-season that Ross got the first hit of the game for the Giants on a home run. San Francisco continues to hang with the Phillies in terms of power. If they continue that, they can win this series.

Update: Ross had a three-homer game in his career, and he also hit three dingers in two games against the Phillies on 9/1 and 9/2, 2007. He also accomplished that against the Mets in May of 2008 and against the Cubs and Nationals in August of 2009.

Oswalt issues a walk but gets out of the fifth with no more damage. The game is at the half-way mark with the Phillies and Giants tied at one.

October 17, 2010

The Ross Homers

This may be the best explanation for Cody Ross hitting two homers off Roy Halladay in game one of the NLCS:

It was just one of those unexplainable postseason things.

On this night, Ross had Halladay’s number just as Bucky Dent once had Mike Torrez’s number and just as Kirk Gibson once had Dennis Eckersley’s number.

It happens.

It’s also one of the things I love about baseball, that the supporting player can be the star, get the big hit when no one expects it.

October 16, 2010

Pick-up Game

Two mid-season additions to the Giants roster supplied the power tonight, with Cody Ross hitting two home runs and Pat Burrell driving in a run with a double, and his pinch runner scoring. The Phillies picked up more extra base hits (four to three), but the Giants were able to surround Burrell’s double with singles for two runs. The Giants showed they can hang with the Phillies in the power game, so this should be a very close series.

Tim Lincecum and Roy Halladay pitched good but not great games, both going seven innings. Tim pitched just well enough to get the win, Roy just well enough to get the loss.

This is a huge win for the Giants, as the Phillies offense did not do much in San Francisco this season.

October 16, 2010

Double Cody

Cody Ross homers for the second time in two at bats, and the Giants lead the Phillies 2-1. Once again, he hits a one-out solo shot, this time in the top of the fifth.

Both teams are collecting long hits, but the Giants have managed to land two in the seats.

Update: Just like in the third, Roy Halladay gets the next two batters to get out of the inning. He’s showing his typical great control as Roy walked none and struck out six through five innings.

October 16, 2010

Cody Clobbers

Cody Ross hits a one-out home run off Roy Halladay in the top of the third to give the Giants a 1-0 lead. That ends Halladay’s hitless inning streak at 11 in the post season.

This is how the Giants have to beat Halladay. Get a couple of long balls and hope Tim Lincecum can keep the Phillies from scoring much.

Update: Carlos Ruiz answers with a solo shot leading off the bottom of the inning. The Giants and Phillies are tied at one. Both home runs were hit by number eight hitters.

Halladay follows with a single. He’s two for four at the plate in the post season.

Update: That’s all the Giants get as Roy strikes out two in the inning and has four for the game. He’s working very efficiently with only 35 pitches thrown through five innings.

Update: Shane Victorino grounds into a double play, two down.

Update: Placido Polanco doubles down the leftfield line. Three of the four hits against Tim in this game have gone for extra bases.

Update: Tim walks Chase Utley, and Lincecum is not happy about the calls by the umpire.

Update: Lincecum throws a wild pitch, but strikes out Ryan Howard. One third of the way through the game the teams are tied at one.

October 11, 2010

Cody Clouts

Cody Ross breaks up Derek Lowe‘s no-hitter and shutout with one out in the sixth, hitting a solo home run. It was only the third fly ball of the game hit off Lowe. Ross hit 14 homers in the regular season, three for the Giants. His first post-season homer ties the game at one.

Update: That’s all the Giants get. Lowe is up to eight strikeouts. Derek is both striking out batters and mostly getting ground balls, a great combination.

August 22, 2010

Giants get Ross

The Giants claimed Cody Ross off waivers from the Florida Marlins and acquired him for the price of the exchange.

Ross will give the Giants more depth for the final weeks of the playoff race. The Marlins will begin looking toward next year, and they plan to recall Cameron Maybin on Tuesday from Triple-A New Orleans for a late-season tryout in center field.

“Our playoff hopes have dimmed a bit, and we have to be realistic about that,” Florida president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest said. “You can characterize it as whatever you want – a white flag, or anything like that. We’re realistic about where we are.”

Ross seems to fit in well with the Giants as he does a poor job of getting on base and his power disappeared this season. If his power comes back up to his career average, however, that will help San Francisco.

June 19, 2010

Evil Player

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The Evil Player program selected Cody Ross as Saturday’s evil player. Chris’ evil comes from his playing against the conventional norms of baseball. A left-handed batter, Cody hits 50 points higher this year against left-handed pitcher than right-handed pitchers, and slugs about 140 points higher. Sunlife Stadium, the Marlins home park, tends to favor pitchers. Ross hits 75 points higher there than on the road. I’d say he needs to platoon less at home. 🙂

Correction: Cody is a right-handed batter. The bio page I looked at this morning had bats/throws: L. I regret the error.

February 16, 2010

A Win for Ross

Cody Ross wins his arbitration case. It’s interesting that both recent cases that went to a hearing, Ross and Upton, had ask and bid prices very close to one another. It seems players take a, “what do I have to lose?” attitude when the price is that close. Compare that to Lincecum. The salaries were so far apart that he might have thought, did I ask for too much?