BOS (1-1) @ OAK (1-1) - GM 3 - 10:05 p.m. EST
by Randy Booth on Apr 1, 2008 8:30 PM EDT
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PrintBoston Red Sox at Oakland Athletics, Apr 1, 2008 10:05 PM EDT
It's finally here! The day we've all been waiting for! Opening Day ... in America? ... for the Red Sox?
Whatever you want to call it, the Red Sox are playing tonight and the game actually counts in the standings. It may not feel like Opening Day, but let's treat it like it is the true one, right?
Here are your starters for tonight's game. For some reason, I feel like we've seen this one before...:
Here is the Red Sox's lineup for tonight:
- Ellsbury, rf
- Pedroia, 2b
- Ortiz, dh
- Ramirez, lf
- Lowell, 3b
- Youkilis, 1b
- Varitek, c
- Crisp, cf
- Lugo, ss
The A's lineup to come later.
JD Drew is still hurting so Coco Crisp takes his place in the lineup, but plays center, meaning Jacoby Ellsbury is in right field. Look at the consecutive speed in the lineup: Crisp, Julio Lugo and then Ellsbury -- all back-to-back. Please take advantage of this tonight, Tito.
I'm treating this as the first "real" game of the season. Yeah, Japan was nice but who knows what those performances would have been like if it wasn't after an 18-hour plane ride? Hopefully all the jet lag is out and we can actually play some real baseball.
Go Sox!
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Interesting
To see Ells in the leadoff spot. No knock on his abilities or his speed or anything, but I'm tempted to bet my entire net worth ($6.47) that DP has a better OBP than Ells this season, and it's the most important thing for a leadoff hitter, no?
"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Julius Erving is a doctor?"
Useless Blue Jays.
...just saying.
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Aright. Give up a solo HR, then nibble with Emil Brown. I see the logic.
...not.
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Dear Jacoby
Take a pitch.
Love,
Allen
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I have a feeling Bob Geren is going to get a talking-to...
from Billy Beane about that move.
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Well, to be fair, it's not like Suzuki is...
Well, Tek out there.
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it's beginning to alarm me
that Papi doesn't have a hit yet.
Ugh. I just hate this Kevin in the 6-spot thing.
He's like, doomed to be stranded with the guys behind him, though I do think Lugo has a rebound year.
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youks with the single.
Tek to K? Popup? GiDP?
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Wowie
Tek actually got some nice wood on that
Lugo with the IF hit
This is where he needs to live with that speed
Off topic
But I'm really digging the live comment updating.
Now this is the Sox offense at work. C'mon Papi.
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Come on Papi
First hit right now. Make it a blast.
Sweet mother. It's rust. It has to be, or we're f.ed.
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Decidedly eh.
Actually, got a two-out rally going and tied the game. Daisuke is looking very good when not nibbling.
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papi
WTF is wrong with this guy? Who's watching it? Is he looking comfortable? Swinging at balls outside of the zone? Behind it? getting fooled?
It's the third game.
Believe me, if he doesn't have a good game at the plate within a couple more days, we'll have a lengthy panic-riddled discussion about it.
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Sweet mother. Matsuzaka WILL strike you out, cretins.
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Excellent. Way to settle down after the solo jack, even though I yelled at him anyway.
5 IP, 2 H, 7 Ks. Would love to see the pitch count be a bit lower, but hey.
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Daisuke
Daisuke is DEALING. One mistake that's obviously hurt him but he looks fantastic out there right now.
Little late on the play at the plate with Youk but the tag was clearly missed. Yet even though the replay showed this multiple times the Oakland announcers kept claiming that Youk must be out because he went back to tag the base again. Talk about homers...
by Gnick on Apr 1, 2008 11:38 PM EDT reply actions
to anyone watching, did Emil Brown misplay it at all?
seems like a distinct possibility..
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A little bit
It kind of bounced over him though. It was a legitimate triple.
He and Drew should start a "robbed of homers" club.
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What happened?
My video cut out.
I'm one of four guys who built SB Nation 2.0. We are like the Borg, but friendly.
All right Daisuke.
We got you the Ump-ruined cushion.
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mlb.tv
Does anyone else have mlb.tv? And if so is there video a little bit behind? Because soxaholic called Coco's groundout before I saw it.
by Gnick on Apr 1, 2008 11:46 PM EDT reply actions
I'm using mlb.tv
And yeah, it's a bit delayed.
In fact
If you have Gameday open, you can predict the future!
Haha. I remember that several times from last season.
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"In play, run(s)"
"Oh f. yeah. Show it to me MLB.tv." -A common occurance last season using gameday and mlb.tv at the same time.
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MLB.tv, I've found, is consistently a bit behind.
Kept me from following GT's too closely last season.
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I would guess he starts the 7th at the least.
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I'm Thinking
7th: Dice-K
8th: Delcarmen
9th: That one guy who looks kinda scary sometimes
by Gnick on Apr 1, 2008 11:53 PM EDT reply actions
Alright guys
I'm outta here for the evening. Class tomorrow's a pain. Go Sox!
Daric Barton is too good for a gamecast photo.
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If it's J-Lo, I'm going to be upset.
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Oki. All right. Still don't like it, but all right.
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Must be looking at those career numbers. Cust: 1-1 vs. Oki.
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Take that, Cust. Now you're 1-1 with a BB.
Oh wait...
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Oh dear god. Do not walk Emil Brown.
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I was worried that was huge sarcasm, and Brown had HR'd or something.
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It's all good. I figured it out after a few tense moments.
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In retrospect, they might not've wanted Daisuke to reach 100 tonight for some reason.
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Paps in. Oki did not look good - his changeup wasn't sharp. Thankfully Hannahan bunted into an out and Oki got a fly out.
Well. This game needs to go well.
The other two games I was following tonight (Celtics v. Bulls & Predators v. Blues) both did.
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One down. Buck Ks on three pitches.
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OH hell yeah. Paps with the save with a 3-K ninth and 1 1/3 in total. Daisuke with a gem.
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Oak-town
I was there tonight. RED SOX NATION was well represented as always. Lots of screaming, cursing, and the normal behavior given to us by our fine friends in the MAC.
It was great! Plus, Tek got screwed, Dice-K threw looked great except for one bad pitch. Tomorrow should be great if it doesn't rain!
KFC
"It's not like the end of the world or something. Why should we panic?"
-- Manny being Manny
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