how close was Manny's shot to center? Gameday shows it at the wall

That's about right.

crisp reaches!!!!

Crisp should count his blessings on that one. How's that gonna be scored?

That's about right, he got all of it. Anyone slower that Figgins wouldn't have gotten to it.

they've been very forgiving tonight - so who knows

even if Ortiz comes up, will they just walk him?

please no GIDP - and probably shouldn't let Crisp steal

warning track but it was a line drive so I thought it would have at least been a double.

Gotta love this Angels Defense. it's like they all watched E-Rod's instruction videos.

That was close! (At least it looked that way... nope... replay shows he was safe by a mile)

crisp steals!

Now that first is open.

But I'm being pessimistic.

passed ball, passed ball, passed ball... c'mon, PLEASE!!!

Now Loretta must walk. Or get hit by a pitch. That's it--jump in front of one Mark! Just don't leave 1b open when Pai comes to the plate.

Was his foot off the bag?!!!!

hey now, he was pulled off the bag there

its all torture

We just can't catch a freakin' break. Tito shoulda been out there.

alright youk its all up to you

do you pitch to papi here or do you put the go head run on base?

Chickens!

Let's go Youk!

can we get a call -even a bad one

looks like you put the go-ahead run on base. This sox team is now failing in the only area that they are good at. The offense is getting dragged down.

Time to crush one, Youk.

C'mon Youk! Crush it, baby!

PR for Ortiz here!

Francona LEADS OFF THE INNING WITH MANNY????????????


Holy shit, I hate him.

With all that speed? Are you kidding? /s

I think I'm gonna Youk

if he plans on using him after papi and he doesnt get to hit, then you would be all over him for not using him.

krod is slowly losing it

Crisp oughta be fn with his head back there.

DANG IT ALL!!!!!!

oh man, that hurts, he really got into that

at least i can take solace in the possibility that the yankees could lose tonight too

Damn.

I'm going to bed.

blub, blub, blub

this sox team sucks.

While I appreciate your attempts at a f*cking Vulcan mind meld, I can assure you that I thought it was a bad move at the time and that I would have saved Manny to protect Papi in the event one (or more) of Pedroia, Crisp, Lorretta reached.

So blow me.

One of these days we're going to score more runs than the other team.

I hope.

good thing there are no razors in my house. Suck! Suck! Suck!

What's our record for consecutive losses? anyone know?

The Sox show some fight, but just can't get the job done.

you dont leave him on the bench when you are down by one run when he can easily tie it up.

Whatever the number is, 6 is too many



so berg serious question, if those 3 guys didn't reach, you would have been fine not using manny to ph?

Please, can someone stop the bleeding?

I'm not answering for him, but for me. I would have used him instead of Crisp or Loretta (depending on what Pedroia did), but not to lead off.

Probably I would have used Hinske for Crisp and Manny for Loretta actually.

I would have sent in Pedroia-Hinske-Manny-Ortiz. Shoot all the bullets.

Then again, I would have PH'd Hinske for Kapler previously, so I might not have had him, but if you're asking me just about the ninth, that's it...

thank you Ron Villone, something good has happened for tonight, ( very small, but still ) I suppose, I will take it!

That's the difference between a Coco Crisp and a Dave Roberts.

Well, congrats to Dustin Pedroia for his first MLB hit. Atleast something positive. Props also to the pitchers, they did their job and kept us in the game.

Another tough loss and even less confidence...

If you still have yankees on the mind, then you need to be brainwashed. The yankees are gone, done, winning the AL East. The sox should focus on the WC, a race that they had a chance to decrease their deficit in. Instead, they choke away another game.

Just saw the highlights, it looks like the sox were 100% DOA.

I wouldn't say that necessarily. They did get good performances out of Snyder and Gabbard, and MDC was effective. But defensive lapses and mistakes cost them, and the offense, as usual, can't score with the bases loaded.

[codebox] Boston ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi w k avg.
Crisp, Coco cf 5 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .270
Loretta, Mark 2b 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .306
Ortiz, David dh 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .285
Youkilis, Kevin 1b 4 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 .292
Pena, Wily Mo lf 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 .304
Lowell, Mike 3b 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .286
Mirabelli, Doug c 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 .196
Kapler, Gabe rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .221
Pedroia, Dustin ss 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .333
Ramirez, Manny ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .329
Totals 35 3 9 2 0 0 1 5 7

LA Angels ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi w k avg.
Figgins, Chone cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 .267
Izturis, Maicer 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .311
Cabrera, Orlando ss 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .283
Guerrero, Vladimir rf 3 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 .322
Anderson, Garret lf 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 .278
Rivera, Juan dh 4 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 .302
Kennedy, Adam 2b 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .256
Quinlan, Robb 1b 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .326
Napoli, Mike c 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .232
Totals 34 4 11 3 0 1 4 2 4

Boston 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 -- 3
LA Angels 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 X -- 4

E_C.Figgins. LOB_Boston 10, LA Angels 8. 2B_C.Crisp, K.Youkilis, O.Cabrera,
V.Guerrero 2. HR_J.Rivera (21) off K.Snyder. SB_C.Crisp (17), O.Cabrera (21),
V.Guerrero (15), R.Quinlan (1). CS_W.Pena. GIDP_O.Cabrera. DP_Boston
(D.Pedroia, M.Loretta and K.Youkilis); LA Angels (O.Cabrera).

Boston IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
Snyder, Kyle 5 9 3 3 1 3 1 85-55 6.23
Gabbard, Kason (L 0-2) 1 2-3 2 1 1 1 0 0 29-17 3.86
Delcarmen, Manny 1 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 0 17-11 4.24

LA Angels IP H R ER BB SO HR PC-ST ERA
Saunders, Joe 5 2-3 6 2 0 3 4 0 98-56 3.06
Donnelly, Brendan 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 15-9 4.59
Shields, Scot (W 7-7;B 4) 1 1-3 1 1 1 1 2 0 27-13 3.00
Rodriguez, Francisco (S 35) 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 24-14 2.06

IBB_off K.Snyder (V.Guerrero), off F.Rodriguez (D.Ortiz).
WP_K.Snyder.
T_3:07. A_44,041.[/codebox]