The Red Sox (35-24) look to finish off a sweep of the Yankees (34-24) and go up 8-0 in their season series when they meet tonight at Fenway Park. Boston will have to contend with New York's $161 million man, CC Sabathia (5-3, 3.56) who is making his first start in pinstripes against the Sox. Brad Penny (5-2, 5.85 ERA) gets the start for the Sox. Julio Lugo has clearly been blamed for some of Penny's struggles in '09 (including his last start) so let's see if he fares any better with Nick Green getting the start at shortstop tonight. Let's go Red Sox!
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Starting Lineups
Red Sox
1. Dustin Pedroia, 2B
2. J.D. Drew, RF
3. Kevin Youkilis, 1B
4. Jason Bay, LF
5. Mike Lowell, 3B
6. David Ortiz, DH
7. Jason Varitek, C
8. Rocco Baldelli, CF
9. Nick Green, SS
SP -- Brad Penny, RHP
Yankees
1. Derek Jeter, SS
2. Johnny Damon, LF
3. Mark Teixeira, 1B
4. Alex Rodriguez, 3B
5. Robinson Cano, 2B
6. Nick Swisher, RF
7. Hideki Matsui, DH
8. Melky Cabrera, CF
9. Francisco Cerbelli, C
SP -- CC Sabathia, LHP
The Yankees pitchers have hit 9 Red Sox this year, and the Sox have hit 2 Yanks. Last night starter (Wakefield) obviously wasn't the best guy to even the score...but look for Penny to drill someone (Jeter?) tonight with 2 outs and nobody on.
Well, didn't take long for my HBP prediction to come true...Penny guns one into Rodriguez's side in the 1st.
Both sides receive a warning and that's probably all you'll see tonight.
On a negative, he did it with a man on 3rd base, so the Yanks have men on the corners with 2 down.
Clearly intentional by the way.
Well, didn't take long for my HBP prediction to come true...Penny guns one into Rodriguez's side in the 1st.
Both sides receive a warning and that's probably all you'll see tonight.
On a negative, he did it with a man on 3rd base, so the Yanks have men on the corners with 2 down.
Clearly intentional by the way.
Penny got out of the 1st with no damage.
0-0 heading to the bottom of the 1st.
First two hitters, great contact..
uh-oh.....Penny is not looking good
Sox stranded bases loaded in the 1st.
0-0 after 1.
Penny in trouble in the 2nd....1st & 2nd, 0 outs but he just struck out Cabrera.
He has 48 pitches through 4 outs...not a good ratio.
WOW! Swisher bales out the Sox!
7-4 double play. Idiot!
Thank you Nick Swisher...AGAIN
I'm saying the Sox strike immediately to make Swisher's mistake even worse.
I'm calling Rocco going yard.
He is BACK!!!
They didn't have to wait for Rocco....Papi makes him pay to start off the inning. I LOVE IT!
Pedro to the Rays? See that rumor?
Jim Nantz the first pitch? weird.
Great outing by Penny...Certainly going to help is trade value...
Rocco CRUSHED that (single though)
Penny in the 6th?
Penny's starting the 6th...clearly with a short leash. They already have action in the pen.
Full count to Rodriguez to leadoff the inning...
1 out groundball single up the middle for Cano.
I'd yank Penny now.
..they're leaving him in to face Swisher.
...sick pitch for strike 2...
Grounds to 1st, Cano to 2nd. 2 outs.
Surprised they left him in but I'm impressed at how hard he's battling.
TRADE PENNY RIGHT NOW!!!
Backwards K to end the 6th!
Great work Penny!!!
1-0 heading to the bottom of the 6th.
amazing night for Brad
GREAT OUTING BY PENNY!
Why trade somebody who is pitching this well? How about dealing Dice-K?
i HATE the mohegan sun commercials...
Especially the my sharona remix...
Japanese revenue....
I don't have as much faith in MDC as I do in the other pen folks but I do love him
tie game
Trade value is super high right now - can get more for him. Trade Penny
Nice play by MDC to get Jeter
I mean ARod needs to come through here to get some credibility in my mind. 1st and 3rd 2 outs vs MDC
MDC could have had a 1-2-3 innings if Mike Lowell had been playing at normal depth
full count
Does rain impact the hitter or the pitcher more?
Arod comes through. 3-1 Yanks
MDC is just not getting it done tonight. Rodriguez with a double to CF, 3-1 Yanks.
shit of an outing for MDC
Back to the Dice-K question, doesn't Japanese revenue appeal more to a money starved team than it does the Sox? We'll be getting Darvish Yu soon enough anyway and then the Japanese fandom will be back on the bandwagon anyway.
Just getting that inning to win is very big.
3-1 Yanks heaading to the bottom of the 7th.
Although Penny deserved a win, he's also won a few he probably didn't deserve to, so my sympathy is minimal.
would be big to get CC out of the game this inning
Tek last year would GIDP right here
what a catch by Rocco!
great inning so far
TIE GAME!
What an inning!
Gotta question Girardi big time
SOX TAKE LEAD!!!
I am so damn proud of this team. 4-3 Sox. Lowell Sac fly. Great baserunning by Drew.
Papelbon vs Jeter, Damon, Tishairah next 1/2 inning
Eck is really good
what an unbelievable play by Green to start!
Stars
1) Penny
2) Nick Green
3) Papi
How does JD Drew not get 1 of your 3 stars? The guy was 2 for 4, drove in the tying run and scored the winning run.
p.s. - I fell asleep after my last post.
Best game I've been to in last 5 years, maybe ever. What a rewarding game. A great reminder that we really do have the best fans.
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