Lackey Takes Advantage Of Bad Mariners Offense In Win

by Randy Booth on Aug 23, 2010 9:53 PM EDT in Game Stories

A win is a win, right?

John Lackey took advantage of a bad Seattle Mariners offense en route to a 6-3 Boston win on Monday night. Lackey looked good, giving up just two earned runs over eight innings of work. He allowed just two walks, six hits and struck out a season-high 10.

Once again, this is the Mariners we're talking about. It's not like Lackey just faced the 1999 National League All-Star team. Still, though, let's give Lackey some credit because even though he's facing the worst offense in baseball, he could have still really sucked ... but he didn't.

Marco Scutaro was the big key offensively in the leadoff spot. Scoot did his part by going 2 for 4 with four RBI and a run scored. J.D. Drew and Victor Martinez also knocked in a run apiece.

Jonathan Papelbon earned his 31st save of the season by pitching a one-hit ninth inning. He struck out two and walked none.

Good for Lackey. Maybe this will get him going in the right direction in September, considering August was not his month: before tonight's game, Lackey had allowed 19 runs in 26.1 innings of work. It has, to put it in a nutshell, been a horrible, horrible month for the guy.

Tuesday night's game features the return of David Pauley, who will start on the mound for the M's. I hope the former Sox gets a standing ovation (although most will scratch their head and say, "I know I've heard that name before...).

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jeeze, you'd think Lackey pulled out an 8-7 'W' based on the offense.

The comments here and on the game thread are pretty negative. Hell, on the game thread, I lost count of how many times someone said, “Lackey sucks!”, or words to that effect.

Oddly, the box score says



Boston           IP   H    R    ER  BB    SO   HR   ERA

Lackey(W, 12-7)  8.0  6    3    2    2    10    0   4.51

As easy as it may be to pick on the lowly M’s, they had been 8-5 over their previous 13 games going into tonight.

by mmmmm on Aug 23, 2010 10:52 PM EDT reply actions

Seriously...you'd swear that I wrote that recap!

Galactus does as he pleases. Because Galactus is drunk.

@#$%ing Twit: @blogtard

by Bloggy on Aug 23, 2010 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions

And around the league

Nice win for the Olde Towne Team. Especially nice to see the Forgotten Ones (Lowrie and Nava) doing their jobs.
FSN Texas (or whoever it is that covers the Rangers) is tonight’s winner of the Premature Exultation Award: they panned across the scoreboard showing all the zeros for MIN, then lingering on the zero in the hits column. Except they did it after 8.1 innings instead of 9. The next pitch? A hit for MIN. Oops.
Lester was bad in his last start, but not as bad as Edinson Volquez was tonight:

0.2 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 1 K, 39 pitches, left with bases loaded.

Fenway: "An alternate and better universe, disguised as a ballpark." --Thomas Boswell

by lone1c on Aug 23, 2010 11:01 PM EDT reply actions