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Thursday, May 9, 2002
Boston @ Oakland

Red Sox 5   Athletics 1
Record 24-7
 
    A   M   E   R   I   C   A   N     L   E   A   G   U   E    
    P       1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10       R H E    
        RED SOX   0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0       5 7 0    
        ATHLETICS   1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0       1 6 0    
 
 

 

Need another notch

  • Guess we couldn't have asked for much more in the Oakland series, three games, three wins. That's great and all but there's no time to sit and be happy, it's onto a bigger challenge starting tonight (Seattle).

    The bats are going to have to stay hot becasue the back end of the rotation has the mound for the next two games. It's not that I don't think Oliver and Castillo will pitch well, but we all know what both of them are like on a bad day, and this (IMHO) is a better line-up than what was in Oakland.

    From our perspective there is some good news going into this Mariner series as has been mentioned on the message board. First, the M's ace will not pitch in this series (Freddy Garcia), second one of the biggest bats in the line-up is still out (Edgar Martinez), and lastly the pen is very much short-handed with the abscence of Jeff Nelson (just hit the 15-day DL) and Kazuhiro Sasaki (who returned to Japan for personal reasons).

    So there are four things in our favor, but we all know from unfortunate experience that no matter the factors in your favor, anything can happen. And since this is all going on on the west coast it makes it that much harder.

  • No help from the D-Rays the past three days. Not that I expected them to really do anything against the Evil Empire, but I figured that after all those losses (14 in a row right now) they'd win by accident by now. Oh well, maybe well get some help this weekend as the Empire heads to Minnesota.

    Frank Castillo tonight, lets keep the offense going.

    paul@redsox2000.com


    • B O S T O N O A K L A N D
      AB R H BI   AB R H BI
    J Damon cf
    J Offerman 1b
    S Hillenbrand 3b
    M Ramirez dh
    B Daubach lf
    J Varitek c
    T Nixon rf
    L Merloni 2b
    R Sanchez ss     		4
    5
    3
    4
    2
    3
    4
    4
    4     		0
    1
    1
    1
    0
    0
    0
    1
    1     		0
    1
    1
    1
    0
    0
    2
    1
    1     		1
    2
    1
    0
    0
    0
    1
    0
    0     		J Giambi lf
    R Velarde 2b
    S Hatteberg dh
    J Dye rf
    R Chavez 3b
    M Tejada ss
    T Long cf
    R Hernandez c
    C Pena 1b     		4
    4
    4
    4
    3
    4
    2
    3
    3     		0
    1
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0     		0
    2
    0
    1
    2
    0
    0
    0
    1     		0
    0
    0
    1
    0
    0
    0
    0
    0
    Totals 33 5 7 5 Totals 31 1 6 1
    BOSTON

    Batting
    2B: R Sanchez (3, T Hudson)
    HR: J Offerman (3, 3rd inning off T Hudson 1 on, 1 Out), S Hillenbrand (7, 5th inning off T Hudson 0 on, 2 Out)
    RBI: J Damon (14), J Offerman 2 (13), S Hillenbrand (28), T Nixon (11)
    SF: J Damon
    2-out RBI: S Hillenbrand, T Nixon
    Runners left in scoring position, 2 out- R Sanchez 1, L Merloni 1
    Team LOB: 6

    Fielding
    DP: 2 (J Offerman-J Varitek-D Lowe-R Sanchez-L Merloni, R Sanchez-J Offerman).

    OAKLAND

    Batting
    2B: R Velarde (2, D Lowe); E Chavez (7, D Lowe)
    RBI: J Dye (4)
    2-out RBI: J Dye
    Gidp: J Giambi
    Runners left in scoring position, 2 out- J Dye 1, M Tejada 1
    Team LOB: 5

    Baserunning
    SB: R Velarde (1, 2nd base off D Lowe/J Varitek)

    B O S T O N O A K L A N D
      IP H R ER BB SO HR   IP H R ER BB SO HR
    D Lowe (W,5-1)
    T Wakefield     		8
    1     		6
    0     		1
    0     		1
    0     		2
    0     		1
    0     		0
    0     		T Hudson (L,3-4)
    C Bradford
    M Venafro
    J Mecir
    B Koch     		7
    0.1
    0.1
    0.1
    1     		5
    1
    1
    0
    0     		4
    1
    0
    0
    0     		4
    1
    0
    0
    0     		1
    0
    1
    0
    0     		5
    0
    0
    1
    1     		2
    0
    0
    0
    0
    Totals 9 6 1 1 2 1 0 Totals 9 7 5 5 2 7 2
    Batters faced - D Lowe 30; T Wakefield 3; T Hudson 29; C Bradford 2; M Venafro 3; J Mecir 1; B Koch 3 Ground Balls-Fly Balls - D Lowe 20-2; T Wakefield 1-2; T Hudson 11-5; C Bradford 1-0; M Venafro 0-1; J Mecir 0-0; B Koch 2-0 Umpires: HP - Ted Barrett, 1B - Brian Runge, 2B - Tim Mcclelland, 3B - Chuck Meriwether Time: 2:28 Att: 18,477 Weather: 68 degrees, sunny Wind: 14 mph, out to right center


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