Game 60: Penny outpitches CC. Did I just say that?
by Randy Booth on Jun 11, 2009 11:51 PM EDT
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PrintEditor's Note: Just noticed E-Coli's post. Should I take this one down? Probably, but I won't. Enjoy!
The Red Sox sweep the Yankees and all I want to sing right now is, "Love that dirty water..."
But here's the thing folks: the Yankees, despite losing to the Red Sox eight times in a row, are a very good team. Yes, it's great to beat them all the time, but we're not just going to lose them off of our tails. As much as that'd be nice, 8-0 just gives us 8 wins. If it could mean the Yankees place 5th in the AL East, that'd be 100 times better.
The Sox did it thanks to a great game from Brad Penny. Penny went six innings, gave up six hits, no runs, one walk and struck out five.
Unfortunately Penny didn't pick up the win, but damn, could we have gotten a better performance in a bigger start? This was a huge game for the Red Sox, and not just because they won, but because Penny gave them an amazing start.
On the offensive side, David Ortiz hit -- another -- home run. Check that man for steroids! (I hope we all know that is a joke). After going down 3-1 after 7 innings, J.D. Drew, Jason Bay and Mike Lowell knocked in runners to take the lead and give the Sox the win. Manny Delcarmen struggled in relief ( .2IP, 3R), but Takashi Saito (W, 1.1IP, 1H, 2K) and Jonathan Papelbon (S, 1IP, 0H, 0BB) picked up the slack.
The Sox head back into interleague play on Friday against the defending World Series champion Phillipes. It'll be Jon Lester v. Joe Blanton.
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YUP!!!
Awesome job by Penny. He’s pitching like he wants to keep his job.
"Well let me just quote the late-great Colonel Sanders, who said...'I'm too drunk to taste this chicken.' "
-Ricky Bobby
Typo?
“but Takashi Saito (W, 1.1IP, 1H, 2K) and Jonathan Papelbon (S, 1IP, 0H, 0BB).”
Yep
And Pedro outpitched Clemens in the 2003 ALCS.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 12, 2009 7:21 AM EDT up reply actions
Agree
I know this sound like treason, but I thought Sabathia pitched a great game. I think the game stat should be “L-Girardi” instead of Sabathia. I think this lost for the MFY, show the inherent problem with their team, their craptastic middle relief. This also shouldn’t be a surprise to the Yankee Organization or their fans, this has been a problem for a couple years.
I think one difference is that Girardi doesn’t manage his bullpen as well as Torre did, who looks like a genius as he wrecked Scott Proctor’s arm.
Sabathia did pitch a great game, but Penny pitched a better one.
Through 7 and 6 respectively, they’d both put up similar numbers in Ks, hits, and walks. Penny had given up a couple more hits, but Sabathia gave up a homer, which more than makes up for it.
The 8th inning makes it no contest.
by Ben Buchanan on Jun 12, 2009 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I freaking knew it.
I was at Sonny’s tonight after work with a couple east coast transplants. Sonny McLeans is the Red Sox bar in Santa Monica, CA.
So Nick green gets on in the 8th, I look at my buddies and say “Red Sox are gonna win.” They both say without any hesitation “Yup.”
Call it homerism or whatever, but I just knew the Sox are coming back. LOL.
Give
SoxAcumen credit-he kinda called this one yesterday!
+1
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 12, 2009 7:22 AM EDT up reply actions
Lets not get crazy
my call was that CC would choke and he was pretty nasty. His only mistake was too Papi and to Joe as a manager.
You called it.
Take your credit man – most of these people were like “Oh crap, 8-1 is OK, I guess” after they took the lead.
Randy suggesting that Papi is juicing? What, trying to get on Outside the Lines or something? ;)
"Ninety percent [of my salary] I'll spend on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste."
-Tug McGraw
I took my post down.
It was a long and hard decision, but in a tough business like this you just have to eliminate redundancies no matter how much you like them.
"It's just a tiny little nick, but it hurts when I get champagne in there."
- Jason Bay, on getting spiked scoring the winning run in ALDS Game Four.
I refuse to eliminate my redundencies, except one!
Lugo bad, Lugo Bad, Lugo bad
Ellsbury good , Ellsbury Good, Ellsbury Good
Varitek mostly a momentum sucker on Offense, *, *.
I hope Papi can recover, I hope Papi can recover, I hope Papi can recover,
Now the one exception: I do believe Wakefield has recently found the fountain of youth, *, *.
Hey NG
The Sox won three games in row without Ellsbury.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 12, 2009 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions
Papi in June (9 games):
1049 OPS, 310 BA, 394 OBP and 3 hrs …
sure, I hope that continues too!
Talk about good timing
It takes a lot of pressure off in terms of making panic moves—-which improves the odds of getting a better deal for Penny.
except
the timing of interleague where he sits…
For
at least this game. We fact 2 lefties after Blanton. I expect Papi to sit those out. Although, I think 3 of his HRs this year are off lefties…not really a large sample size.
I think Papi has good career numbers v. Blanton.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 12, 2009 6:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Good to see Riverdance have a clear frame
"You know you're having a bad day when the fifth inning rolls around and they drag the warning track." - Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Orioles pitcher, 1992.
+1
Although it took a great play by Green and a loud out to get it.
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Jun 12, 2009 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions
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