BTW, did you catch C. Martinez batting for himself to lead off the bottom of the 8th? Yeah, the Nats were up by 6. Yeah, I appreciated the free out. Yeah, there was some reason grounded in manging one’s bullpen. But at some basic baseball fan level, it rubbed me the wrong way.

You neglected to mention the BIGGEST reason the Phillies lost last night’s game…they left the bases loaded in the 2nd and 3rd innings…once with NOBODY FREAKING OUT after an absolute BOMB from the Big Piece!!! Yeah, I know they are missing Ruiz and Utley…and I know it would have been Victorino batting 7th and Ruiz Batting 8th instead of Sardine-can and Bobby Orr. But still…can somebody hit a freaking fly ball???? That was the game right there. I knew it would come back to bite them in the ass and it certainly did. Sure, Doc’s walk of JJ was big. But if it was 3-0 or 4-0 it wouldn’t have been nearly as big and Doc would have finished that game off with no problem. Instead, they let JJ off the hook and EVERYBODY had to be perfect to win.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry)

Tomorrow, you try it.

Like Fiorentino, you seem to think that being sarcastic is sufficient to get you somewhere in this argument. It’s not.

Last night: mostly Halladay and Johnson. I switched to the Braves for early PHI-FLA commercial breaks, but since Atlanta was playing like ass, I started switching to NY-KC, because I don’t really see much KC and it seemed like a fun matchup. Later, when I saw a tweet that the Braves were threatening, I switched back there to watch the 8th and 9th.

It’s kind of all over the map, I guess.

Now for the Red Sox:
Lester 2.96 53 44
Buchholz 4.19 38.7 23
Beckett 1.99 45.1 40
Lackey 7.16 32.2 18
Dice K 4.64 33 24
Totals 201.1 156 Combined ERA: 3.93

Will these numbers continue to show the Yankees in a favorable light who knows, but at this point in time they are what they are. I purposely did not do wins and loses because I know how many of you feel about that specific stat. Anyway the main reason for doing this exercise was that I personally think Cashman deserves a pat on the back after much of what was said on this board about the “reclamation” projects he signed during FA and spring training. I’d also be lying if I said it wasn’t to take a little dig at posters like beantownsports247 who anointed himself all knowing about anything and everything that had something to do with ballplayers the Yankees and the Red Sox including their pitching staffs. That’s just my opinion. BTW, the length of this one probably makes up for the “shortness” of my first post.

Re. Aceves; Did you see him between innings with the towel around his head and cap? That was some goofy look he had going there. How didn’t he get his spikes stuck in all that mud he was creating with the drips? He looked like a guy with his own little rain cloud over him.

Did you notice that Adrian Gonzalez’s dropping of that pop up behind 1st was NOT scored an error? I guess when you’re a rookie like Cooper errors at 1st are errors but GG winning 1st basemen with natty little beards just have no chance against balls that hit their glove.

BTW, I’m working on a much more lengthy post. It should be available within the next 30 minutes.

The Sox Had AGonz to thank for dropping a fairly routine pop-up and they had the kind of pitching that would make Nolan Ryan charge the mound. The Blue Jays had the kind of pitching that would make Ryan charge Davidson. Is that man blind?

Lester watched as the Jays executed perfect Lawyer Ball and got walked a lot. His command was so poor he never even made it look close. Sox pitching combined to hit 3 Jays and come within a whisker of hitting 2 more. Sox reliever Aceves was interesting to watch. Man can that guy sweat. He looked like he was taking a shower up there.

Drabek was better but seemed unable to convince Bob Davidson that balls over the plate just above the knees an on the corner were strikes. Inevitably there was a home run by the likes of Ortiz off Drabek and then Gonzalez off reliever Mark Rzeajsfhsjhgshgski.

Once again, Jose Bautista hit a homer to right field. He made this one more interesting as it was a screaming line drive that just snuck over the fence. He is the most interesting home run hitter in the world and worth every penny of his CURRENT contract.

The real drama in the game was Rajai Davis in the 10th; stole 2nd and then 3rd to be in position for the sac fly. He actually got 2nd on a pitch out, he is THAT quick.

Oh yes; Carl Crawford is baaaaaAAAaaaack…