Daisuke Flirts With History, Defeats Phillies
by Ben Buchanan on May 22, 2010 10:18 PM EDT
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PrintThe remarkably up-and-down season of Daisuke Matsuzaka continues. Tonight was definitely one of the high points.
Through 23 outs, the Philadelphia Phillies could not record a hit off of Daisuke. While he allowed his typical walks, and had a few dangerous fly balls, Daisuke managed to quiet the Philadelphia bats through the first 7 innings, recording 5 strikeouts. In the 8th, with 2 outs, Juan Castro swung at a 3-1 inside fastball, and blooped it just barely beyond the reach of Marco Scutaro's outstretched glove in left-center. It was an anti-climactic end, but a very good run by Daisuke.
The Sox gave Daisuke all he needed in the 4th quarter when J.D. Drew hit a leadoff single, and was doubled in by Adrian Beltre. But it was in the 5th inning when they really broke it open. After Marco Scutaro and Jacoby Ellsbury reached to lead off the inning around a Matsuzaka sacrifice bunt, Drew, Ortiz, and Adrian Beltre put together 3 straight 2-out hits to score 4 runs, and go up 5-0.
Daniel Bard closed out the 9th inning, and set the Sox up for a very difficult rubber game against Roy Halladay tomorrow. Hopefully, Tim Wakefield can imitate Daisuke.
Never thought I'd be saying that.
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Daisuke did this against one of the best
offenses in Baseball. Now that is a barometer game of sorts! What a schizo team this is, but I guess schizo good is better than never good.
Wakefield tomorrow—why????
Here's the link for Matsuzaka's Pitch F/X
if you like to see what he threw:
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http://www.brooksbaseball.net/pfxVB/pfx.php?s_type=2&sp_type=1&batterX=0&month=05&day=22&game=gid_2010_05_22_bosmlb_phimlb_1%2F&year=2010&pitchSel=493137&prevGame=gid_2010_05_22_bosmlb_phimlb_1%2F
Nice game to listen to. Screw U FOX !
Could have been worse...
Joe Buck was in New York
"We are not normal, We are Legends. People will tell their kids about us." - Deon Butler before Ohio State Game 2008.
Haha
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by bestbostonsports on May 22, 2010 11:06 PM EDT up reply actions
You're very welcome.
Play around with that site. It changed the way I look at pitching. You can break the graphs down to a single battle between the pitcher and one batter or look at the whole game. It takes a little time to get to know how to use the site to your advantage. Remember, when you look at the graphs, you are getting the view that the catcher sees when catching the ball.
Thank you to brooksbaseball.com and the baseball fans who service it. Really cool.
Randy, Ben, and company: it’s a pleasure to visit your site also. Thanks for your hard work with all the hours and love of the game you put into it.
Much appreciated.
Go Tim Wakefield. GoSox.
maybe zaka needs more rest between starts
the sandwich game in his last 3 games sucked big time (against mfy). but the other 2 he dominated in. more data forthcoming.
(zaka is a registered trademark of some lunatic poster with the initials of sean o., er i mean, s.o.)
Oswalt who? We got Daisuke!!!!
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by bestbostonsports on May 22, 2010 11:03 PM EDT reply actions
Per my comment's after last night's game
it looks like ‘Good Dice-K’ showed up and kept his Evil Twin Skippy locked inthe basement back home!
Great effort by Dice-K to give the team a pick-me-up before they have to face Halladay tomorrow. Great game. And Celtics are crushing the Magic.
I love nights like this.
Me too!
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by bestbostonsports on May 22, 2010 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Minor Lines?
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by bestbostonsports on May 22, 2010 11:14 PM EDT reply actions
Greenville is still playing...14 innings and counting.
USG
by Ben Buchanan on May 22, 2010 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions
yikes
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by bestbostonsports on May 23, 2010 12:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Should Tek be Dice-Ks full time catcher? Had pretty good results this time through.
"We are not normal, We are Legends. People will tell their kids about us." - Deon Butler before Ohio State Game 2008.
Nah - Dice-K also posted a lot of good innings with V-Mart
All of Dice-K’s trouble so far this year came in 3 bad innings. Outside of those 3, his ERA is miniscule, independent of who was catching. After his last start in NY (in which he blew up in the 1st inning and then settled down for the rest of his outing), Dice-K made a very cryptic comment to the extent that “I have figured out the problem of my big innings. But it is a secret and I can’t tell you.”
Makes you wonder if it was a problem with tipping pitches?
Whatever it was, he clearly solved it for tonight.
15 of Dice-K's 19 Earned Runs have come in those 3 innings.
So going into tonight he’d given up just 4 runs across the other 18.2 innings, of which Tek had caught 7 innings and V-Mart had caught 11.2.
On the other hand, it is true that V-Mart was the catcher in the 3 bad innings. So it is still possible that V-Mart had something to do with whatever ‘problem’ it is that Dice-K says he figured out.
But the fact is that Dice-K has pitched 11.2 innings of very good ball to V-Mart this year so clearly he CAN pitch well to him.
About the Catching Situation
Yes, V-Mart has caught both Beckett and Dice-K, but I really feel it’s an issue of getting the work and time in as a tandem. Clearly for obvious reasons, ’Tek has had more time in catching both, but perhaps they should work on getting more games in with V-Mart catching Beckett and Dice-K.
Or at the very least, get V-Mart and Dice-K’s communication barriers broken down more than they are now.
rethinking the rotations
- Lester
- Buchholz
- Dice-K
- Lackey
- Wake
take a few weeks off, Beckett. Rest the back.
by RickD on May 23, 2010 4:53 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Then it will be
1. Lester
2. Buchholz
3. Beckett
4. Wake
5. Lackey
"man, this team they just suck so bad"- gizmosandy
DFA Bogar
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by BoldandBrash on May 23, 2010 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions
Boy, I can watch this video all day!
More of those buddy!
Westmoreland recently asked his son how he was feeling, and the response the father received didn't surprise him. "I'm going to be in Portland next year," Ryan said.
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