No Chance?: Sox-Mariners Gamer IX

Conventional wisdom tells us that a Clay Buchholz (near 6 ERA) - Felix Hernandez (sideways cap and MEAN stuff, polished already) in Safeco is as close to a guaranteed loss as one can imagine for our boys.  But games are, as they say, played on the field and not in the highly negative mind of overworked keyboard tappers.  So to that end, the Sox will take the field today, they will try to win, and they may, in fact, emerge victorious.  But we will most definitely not be betting.

Discuss the getaway game here.

Comments

[Lar]

Wow, I went to err, use the bathroom and came back to see a tie.

[Atheose]

Reed singles. Pull him, send Masterson out there.

[Atheose]

*walks back into the hurricane*

[Paul SF]

Well, no win for Buchholz. Totally not his fault. He should be walking off the mound with a semicomfortable lead and in line for a win. I hate this team so much right now. Hate hate hate hate hate this team.

[Lar]

sw: my bad if you don't like it, just thought it's amusing/cool (technology-wise). I would've done it for the Yanks game if I remembered about it - I came across it checking out the PPA stat for SF.

But probability are just that - sometimes it's going to turn up heads..

[Lar]

If it helps the reverse jinx - as of right now Seattle has a 63% chance of winning.

[Atheose]

Well here's the big first test for MAsterson. Can he get a DP with inherited runners?

[stuck working]

Yeah, I know, Lar. I'm not actually superstitious, but I had to blame someone, y'know?

[Lar]

If anything, blame the guy who laughed at Vidro being the DH! ;P

[Atheose]

Masterson gets a K. Very nice!

[Paul SF]

Wow, Masterson comes on and Ks Johjima and LaHair on a total of seven pitches. Niiiiice.

[rootbeerfloat]

Atheose, you can come back in but don't get comfortable.

[Lar]

Interesting, Putz comes in the 7th inning, in a relatively high leverage situation..

[Paul SF]

How the mighty have fallen: J.J. Putz on in the seventh? Wow.

[Atheose]

Masterson gets 2 K's on 7 pitches! Fantastic!

[Atheose]

I'll watch the game while standing, RBF.

[Atheose]

Pedroia! Okay, I officially declare myself full of good luck now.

[rootbeerfloat]

Elf!!! I love that little guy!

[I'mBillMcNeal]

OOOf. What the hell happened to Putz?

[Paul SF]

Pedroia is ridiculously hot.

He seems to be hitting the ball well, too.

[Atheose]

So you have to send Masterson back out for the 7th right? Then Delcarmen/Papelbon (assuming we get the lead), or Okajima/Papelbon?

[Lar]

That is an.. interesting statement.

[Lar]

Tons of injuries and sucked when he's not.

[rootbeerfloat]

Atheose??

[Atheose]

Youk K's and Pedroia is thrown out. I hate the hit-and-run.

[Lar]

Struck them out/throw them out DP. I wonder what's the leash on Putz. I guess this was his inning.

[Paul SF]

We will lose this game. We will have 13 baserunners in the first seven innings, score only three of them, score only one run despite loading the bases with none out, squander a decent outing from Clay Buchholz, and lose this effing game.

[Atheose]

Atheose??

*hides under desk*

[Atheose]

I heart Masterson's slider.

[rootbeerfloat]

You know, when that class was canceled, perhaps you should have considered going to the library to do some make-up work.

[Paul SF]

With Masterson's arm, we could leave him out there for three or four innings if this game stays tied. Right now, knock on wood, Masterson looks good enough where that may be the case.

[Atheose]

Ellsbury with a great catch that Manny wouldn't have had. Masterson with a perfect 1.2 IP, and only 17 pitches used. Send him out for the 8th? Or do we trust Oki/Delcarmen?

[Lar]

Well, I'm outta here! Can't blame the rest of the game on me!

[I'mBillMcNeal]

Masterson for the 8th, right? Anyone?
Anyone?

[I'mBillMcNeal]

Adios, Lar.

[I'mBillMcNeal]

You have to send him back out there. That's why Theo did this. This shores up the big hole.

[Paul SF]

Yeah, Bill, especially in the tie game. He has to go out for the eighth, especially seeing as he's only thrown one inning's worth of pitches.

[rootbeerfloat]

That catch is the only downside of seeing Big Papi back in the line-up.

[Atheose]

I'm sorry RBF! Though I still think Lar's jinxes deserve a larger portion of the blame.

[Paul SF]

It's Manny injury allowing Ellsbury to be in left, so you'd probably still get to see that catch if Papi were in today's lineup, RBF.

I wish Papi were in today's lineup. I bet we might have more than three runs right now.

[Atheose]

Is that a "Let's go Yankees" cheer in the crowd? Wtf?

[Atheose]

Tito listening to this thread apparently. Masterson back out there, gets a groundout on his slider.

[I'mBillMcNeal]

Yep. This Masterson in long relief thing is a bad idea alright.

[Atheose]

Write it down: Masterson's arrival to the bullpen will save the Red Sox' season.

[rootbeerfloat]

At least Tek can't gidp again

[rootbeerfloat]

That sounded a tad Keystone Cop-esque

[rootbeerfloat]

crap. Gotta hope for extra innings

Ellsbury 0-5 tonight. Okajima in.

[I'mBillMcNeal]

Those were three bad at-bats there.

I'd love to know what was going through Tek's head after the latest k.

[rootbeerfloat]

Tomorrow's an off day so at least a few extra innings won't affect anything.

Okajima is going to blow the game. I can feel it.

Haha shirtless fan on the field. I'm surprised the cameraman showed him being carried away--I thought networks weren't allowed to show ANY footage when fans go on the field.

[Atheose]

Ellsbury makes another great play.

[Atheose]

Anon was me. Stupid typepad.

I've never been so nervous to see a reliever with a 2.72 ERA in the game.

[rootbeerfloat]

if only his bat weren't stone cold...

[rootbeerfloat]

is anyone else breathing?

[Atheose]

4-pitch walk. Tito pulls him, Delcarmen in.

[rootbeerfloat]

Delcarmen? Ugh.

[Atheose]

I'm not, RBF. How the fuck do you walk Miguel "two-twenty-five" Cairo? He's hitting almost as bad as Tek!

[rootbeerfloat]

whew

[Atheose]

Delcarmen gets out of it! On to extras, Pedroia-Drew-Youk. Offense please?

[I'mBillMcNeal]

Come on Lawn Gnome!!

[I'mBillMcNeal]

Crap.
How do we get that Morrow guy?

[rootbeerfloat]

He certainly has some nasty stuff.

[I'mBillMcNeal]

I want him.
RBF, talk to Theo.

[I'mBillMcNeal]

I want him.
RBF, talk to Theo.

[Atheose]

Drew draws his 2nd walk of the day. Drive him in Lowell!

[rootbeerfloat]

I'm on it.

[attackgerbil]

Ichiro is off of Drew's holiday card list I would guess.

[rootbeerfloat]

cripes

[I'mBillMcNeal]

JD will take care of that when he wakes up.

[Atheose]

Drew doubled off first. Bah.

You know what the best thing about this extra-inning game is? It's not 2:00am right now! All left-coast games should be day games.

[rootbeerfloat]

Ichiro is certainly crossed off mine. Profanity-laden pre-ASG rant or not.

[I'mBillMcNeal]

Eh, replay shows JD not so much at fault.

[I'mBillMcNeal]

You know, today was kind of a cleansing.

[rootbeerfloat]

Delcarmen still in? Me still nauseous.

[Paul SF]

Heh, game's still going on...

[Atheose]

I want him.
RBF, talk to Theo.

Not to toot my own horn, but I said we should get Morrow back in June ;-)

http://www.yfsf.org/2008/06/whither-the-pen.html#comment-120650966

[Atheose]

Wicked curveball to K Lopez there.

[I'mBillMcNeal]

MDC sez: Suck on that, YFSF doubters!

[Atheose]

Red Sox bullpen tonight: 4.2 IP, 5 K, 1 BB, 0 H.

[A YF]

Why can't Papsy pitch more than one inning, again?

[Atheose]

Lowrie draws a walk! Hey Varitek, please don't go 0-5.

[Atheose]

Holy shit Varitek listened!

[attackgerbil]

That first pitch swing by Crisp looked a bit wanting.

Coco just wanted to hear me scream "GOD BLESS COCO!", ag.

[rootbeerfloat]

Paps may end up pitching several at the rate this is going.

[rootbeerfloat]

well then maybe he should have hit it harder, Ath.

[Atheose]

Papelbon in.

[Atheose]

Wow what a lucky goddamn hit. Dejavu of a previous blown save this season.

[attackgerbil]

Ouch.. that's a tough replay to live down at the end of the season blooper reel.

[rootbeerfloat]

what happened?

[attackgerbil]

Vidro hit a silly dink that Paps over-ran because of a some english on it.. He tried to recover and toss to first but he couldn't get the handle on it and fell over rather clumsily.

Made Beltre look slow here with that K.

[Atheose]

High-hopping ball towards the 1st baseline, Paps went after it but was running too fast--the ball had spin and bounced backwards away from him.

Betancourt singles to the gap, runner was going.

[Atheose]

My heart just stopped on that foul ball. The announcer was screaming like it was easily fair.

[I'mBillMcNeal]

Whew.

[Atheose]

Lowell fields it easily and gets the double play. Thank goodness.

[Atheose]

Ellsbury! About time!

[Atheose]

I swear to god if Ellsbury doesn't steal this base I'm going to be pissed.

[Atheose]

If Ellsbury had stolen that base then Pedroia's grounder would have moved him to 3rd. Sigh.

[Atheose]

IBB to Drew. Youk getting no respect!