Red Sox Respond To Ninth Inning Collapse, Walk Off Again
by Ben Buchanan on Aug 1, 2010 5:13 PM EDT
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PrintIt took 20 pitches in the top of the ninth inning to undo Clay Buchholz' strong outing. It took only 13 in the bottom of the inning to undo that collapse.
Buchholz had already thrown eight shutout innings on 98 pitches when Terry Francona sent him out to try and finish things in the ninth. Thanks to some early offense off of Tigers ace Justin Verlander, Buchholz was in line for the win if he could hold the 3-0 lead. Unfortunately, it was not to be. A tough hop to Jed Lowrie off the outfield grass resulted in a leadoff infield single before a walk to Ryan Raburn brought Terry Francona out from the dugout, and Jonathan Papelbon in from the bullpen.
With his first pitch, Papelbon gave up a ringing double high off the wall in centerfield to Miguel Cabrera, scoring the two runners he inherited from Buchholz. After striking out Brennan Boesch on three more pitches, Jhonny Peralta took the first one he saw and singled up the middle, tying the game at three before a double play ended the inning.
As has been the case lately, though, the Red Sox had no problem coming up with some ninth inning offense of their own. Jed Lowrie reached on his own infield single, before Eric Patterson pulled back the bunt on four straight balls from Brad Thomas. With runners at first and second, Jim Leyland turned to rookie Robbie Weinhardt. Marco Scutaro dropped down a bunt, Weinhardt fielded, and threw the ball past the first baseman and into right field, letting Darnell McDonald (pinch running for Jed Lowrie) come around to score the winning run.
The Sox start a four game series against the recently depleted Cleveland Indians tomorrow.
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just wondering......
What type of value can papelbon bring us in the trade market in the offseason cus idk about yall but I think he only goes downhill from here and with bard being the certain closer of the future should we go ahead and make this happen?
Enough to get the Sox someone/something good. Papelbon is just struggling against lefties (Like the whole bullpen except Daniel Bard) and he hasn’t been using his splitter as often this year.
He isn’t doing that bad but the games against the Rockies really jumped his ERA.
What are you talking about? He has a curve ball and change up pitches. It’s just, his change up sucks.
Maybe this is just me, but I've never seen a changeup from Paps.
He has a mediocre slider and split, neither which he can consistently locate.
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He doesnt have a change
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by bestbostonsports on Aug 1, 2010 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions
Alright, maybe he has a change, but he only throws it once in a blue moon
So what good is it? He’ll throw 20 straight fastballs, runs will score, and then maybe he throw a change.
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Well, I just looked at his split stats this year. Like I said above, he is struggling against lefties but he is also struggling when he is in a situation with men on base.
His fastball is going down the middle alot more this year in my opinion and he usually throws a fast ball on the first pitch.
What difference does it make if Papelbon is the closer or setup man, if he throws 20 straight fastballs, runs score, what’s there to save ._.
Either way, he is one of the better relievers out of the pen.
I am now 7-0 at games attended. :)
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by bestbostonsports on Aug 1, 2010 6:33 PM EDT reply actions
lucky bastard
i haven’t been to a game in 5 years now. ticket prices are just too much.
went to a game in 2000 and watched omar vizquel steal home off of rheal cormier. besides that homer cora hit a few years back that bounced off of alex rios’ head ( I was THIS close to catching that ball), thats my favorite ballpark moment.
Thats pretty cool
Ive gone to so many games over the years, my favorite moment has to be Lowrie’s walk off hit vs the Angels to clinch.
Or when I was on the monster to see the Red Sox clinch the playoffs in 2008 vs Cliff Lee.
Came so close to catching a HR hit by Youk. The guy next to me got it!
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by bestbostonsports on Aug 1, 2010 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Not trying to rude but wasn’t that the game where the umpire blew the strike call that I think Nick Green or Lowrie tried to pull back?
Angel fans, especially the manager was pissed lol.
I was at that game actully
But I was reffering to the playoff game in 2008.
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by bestbostonsports on Aug 1, 2010 8:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Tito on Jed
Courtesy Full Count:
"He’s a good hitter. I think it’s kind of forgotten that a couple years ago he came up and kind of saved us. He played short, didn’t make any errors, drove in a bunch of runs," manager Terry Francona said before the game. "Then he’s had a lot of things go wrong health-wise, but he seems to be getting back, which is good. We’re not to the point where we can play him every day. He’s just not ready to do that. But every other day he can help us."
So look for more platooning at 2B, at least until Pedroia returns. . . .
Fenway: "An alternate and better universe, disguised as a ballpark." --Thomas Boswell
Relief pitchers should have runs charged against them fractionally by inherited runners' positions
on the base paths. In other words, an inherited runner on 1B who scores should be charged as 0.25 runs to the previous pitcher and 0.75 runs to the pitcher who gave up hit in which he scored. It would normalize ERAs quite a bit between SPs and RPs.
I just thought I would throw that in there. Paps deserves to have more than 1 out of the 3 runs charged to him. I wonder whose ERA would go up the highest with that rule in effect.
Papelbum with the highest ERA
highest HR/9 and lowest K/9 rates of his career. Sooner we can dump him, the better.
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A little overboard there, but I tend to agree
Bard for closer
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by bestbostonsports on Aug 1, 2010 8:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm over the Paps experience
Ever since he made it abundantly clear that he’ll test free agency (and thus get out of town) I’ve been ready to see him go. Deciding to rest his arm last season was the last straw.
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agreed
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by bestbostonsports on Aug 1, 2010 11:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I really wanted to trade Paps last winter.
I think we could have easily traded for or signed someone to pitch at this crap level (low BABIP), and we would probably have a net gain. With how he’s pitching, I don’t know what we could get for him this winter.
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I think something
I wouldnt have traded him now with an already depleted pen, but it’s obvious who the best pitcher in that pen is.
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by bestbostonsports on Aug 1, 2010 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions
No Fire
Does anyone else seem to think Pap doesn’t have the fire or enthusiasm anymore? He used to get so amped up. I loved that about him; when he used to pump his fist on Ks, etc. Plus I agree with whomever said about Pap testing FA. That sounds like a lack of loyalty too. I want the old excited, strikeout throwing, wants to be a Red Sox Pap back!
by Fenway302 on Aug 2, 2010 2:18 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
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Not one “yay, we won” comment.
Yeesh.
Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.
@#$%ing Twit: @blogtard
30 now, still not a one.
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People are still on the “what’s the point?” ledge at the moment.
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