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Game 38: May 9, 2008
Red Sox	6	H: David Aardsma (2) H: Hideki Okajima (8) BS, L: Jonathan Papelbon (2, 2-2)	23-15, 1 game losing streak
Twins	7	W: Jesse Crain (1-1)	18-16, 1 game winning streak
Highlights: If this were a softball game, Jon Lester would have his third win and Okajima his second save. But the rules of hardball require nine innings and for the second time this season (not to mention the second in the past three days) Boston lost hold of a victory in the final frame of the game.

Near-disasters at first base abounded last night. In the top of the first Justin Morneau had to come off the bag and reach across to tag a hurtling Dustin Pedroia thanks to third baseman Matt Tolbert’s off-target toss. Kevin Youkilis struck out in the second inning but was safe at first since Joe Mauer couldn’t find the ball and then couldn’t find Morneau’s glove.

The most harrowing incident came in the third inning. Morneau’s bat exploded upon impact causing Jon Lester to protect his eyes from the splintering rod. Lester recovered just in time to see that he had to cover first. The southpaw sprinted to first, ensured his foot was on the bag, and then gloved Youkilis’s relay just before Morneau’s headfirst slide. At first Lester seemed to have been injured on the effort, but the lefty threw a few practice pitches and was fit enough to continue. In fact, Lester lasted long enough to secure a decision.

Rookie standout Carlos Gomez demonstrated that while he is a terror on the basepaths he doesn’t yet have the polish to deal with them as an outfielder. He came up throwing on Jason Varitek’s single but his cannon was errant. The throw hit J.D. Drew in the back and had Boof Bonser not been backing up the play Gomez’s error would have also cost a run rather than just Varitek taking an additional base.

The visiting Red Sox trailed in until the fifth inning. Pedroia led off with an infield single, David Ortiz walked, and Manny Ramirez loaded the bases with a liner to center. Delmon Young played Mike Lowell’s fly ball to left badly allowing both Pedroia and Ortiz to score, bringing the score to 5-4 in favor of the Twins.

Since Ramirez advanced to third on Lowell’s two-bagger he was in position to tie the game on Youkilis’s ground out. Lowell replaced Ramirez at third and scored easily on Juan Rincon’s wild pitch to Drew.

So many times Boston had held on to win one-run games (7-3 until this game). As David Aardsma and Hideki Okajima shutout the Twins until the bottom of the ninth, a rebound from the dispiriting last-minute loss to the Tigers seemed to be in the offing. After all, Jonathan Papelbon would take the hill with 6-5 lead and the bottom of the order due to hit.

But hit they did. Young singled, was bunted over by Tolbert, and swiped third with Gomez at bat. Papelbon walked Gomez on six pitches, a surprising event given Papelbon’s command and Gomez’s aggression.

Mike Lamb couldn’t catch up to Papelbon’s pure heat but was able to get around on a fastball that had a bit taken off of it. As the ball looped into left the Twins swarmed home to greet Young and then flocked towards first to pile on Lamb.

At least Boof Bonser didn’t get the win. Anyone who purposefully changes his name to “Boof” doesn’t deserve such an honor.

10 May 2008 ∙ 7:38 PM ∙ May 2008 Game Comments ∙ Permalink ∙ Comments: 0
Tags: Lester (Jon) ∙ Lowell (Mike) ∙ Twins

Game 37: May 8, 2008
Red Sox	5	W: Josh Beckett (4-2)	23-14, 1 game winning streak
Tigers	1	L: Justin Verlander (1-6)	15-21, 1 game losing streak
Highlights: A pair of young aces faced off and Beckett emerged supreme. Verlander continued his puzzling decline; already he has as many losses as he did last year while his ERA has ballooned northwards of six. The usual bullpen suspects rested their arms, giving way to Craig Hansen and Manny Delcarmen. The visiting duo held the Tigers at bay to secure the game and the series.

Daisuke Matsuzaka and Jon Lester should closely observe Josh Beckett when he pitches. They will see the successful result of not bullheadedly going after strikeouts and having unflagging confidence in one’s arsenal. Beckett put on a seven-inning clinic replete with eight strikeouts and no walks. The six hits allowed were all singles, and the Tigers were only able to score once by stringing three of them together in the fourth.

The Red Sox’s hottest hitter, Kevin Youkilis, batted in Manny Ramirez’s spot and emulated the Dominican slugger with a 1-for-2 showing with two walks. The corner infielder smacked his seventh home run of the season in the fifth inning off the crumbling Justin Verlander. The two-run shot added to the three runs from the second for what proved to be an insurmountable lead.

Boston had also had back-to-back-to-back singles, but their hat trick came in the second inning. After Mike Lowell and J.D. Drew got on base each advanced on a wild pitch. Jason Varitek rapped a shot towards Carlos Guillen who managed to cue the ball pass the pursuing Edgar Renteria into shallow left.

Lowell and Drew were plated for the first runs of the game, DeMarlo urging Drew to try for the run just in case Verlander chose this game to regain his form. Coco Crisp bunted on the patch of ground in front of home, catching replacement catcher Brandon Inge off his guard and positioning Varitek at third.

Perhaps disconcerted by his poor inning, Verlander plunked Julio Lugo to load the bases and Jacoby Ellsbury arced a fly ball to center for the third run of the inning.

In Boston a similar story was being written about the Celtics. The surging team demolished the Cavaliers in a 89-73 drubbing in Game 2. I can’t help but get excited by Kevin Garnett’s League of Clutch advertisement. The black and white still pictures subtly animated to appear to be three-dimensional accompanied by Carmina Burana are visually arresting.

It’s rather a letdown to see that spot and then turn over to NESN to see Dustin Pedroia work out with tires or people slapping Jonathan Papelbon’s bottom.

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Tags: Beckett (Josh) ∙ Tigers ∙ Youkilis

Game 36: May 7, 2008
Red Sox	9	H: Hideki Okajima (7) BS, L: Jonathan Papelbon (1, 2-1)	22-14, 1 game losing streak
Tigers	10	H: Bobby Seay (2) H: Zach Miner (2) BS: Francisco Cruceta (1) W: Todd Jones (1-0)	15-20, 1 game winning streak
Highlights: Outstanding outings by Kevin Youkilis (two homers with three runs batted in) and Mike Lowell (a game-tying four-bagger in the seventh) kept Boston in contention despite lamentable showings by Clay Buchholz and Julian Tavarez. Is the nightlife in Detroit particularly compelling? I only ask because of the lack of coordination by a pair of players. In the first inning Jed Lowrie tripped on this way towards to first when running out a ground ball to result in a double play. Buchholz slipped when pursuing Gary Sheffield’s infield grounder and touched the ball just before it crossed the foul like, rendering it fair. Buchholz also balked for the first time in his major league career in the first inning.

Buchholz and Tavarez combined for five innings, 14 hits, and eight earned runs. On the positive side, there was only a single base on balls relinquished. Buchholz gave Miguel Cabrera a free pass in the third amongst the carnage of run-scoring base hits.

Instead of being cowed by trailing the home team, the Red Sox picked away at the mountain of runs the Tigers built by scoring in five consecutive innings. The runs came in every conceivable way: Kevin Youklis homered in the fourth and sixth while Jed Lowrie sacrificed in the fifth, joined by David Ortiz’s opposite field shot to plate Jacoby Ellsbury.

Mike Lowell found an opportune time to blast his second longball of the season. With the score 8-5 in the Tigers’ favor in the seventh inning the third baseman added to the ever-growing collection of Zach Miner souvenir gopher balls. This was a peculiarly deep homer, clearing not only the left field wall but also the bullpen. More importantly Lowell’s three-run shot knotted the game at 8-8, making Red Sox fans doubly happy.

Pinch-hitting Dustin Pedroia took the box in the top of the eighth with two runners on an two out. His mighty hack sent a grounder beyond the reach of a diving Carlos Guillen. The go-ahead run was tallied and Boston seemed to be in the midst of a patented Red Sox comback.

The trio of David Aardsma, Javier Lopez, and Hideki Okajima bridged the gap between the early-game duds and the late-inning stud by heaving three scoreless innings.

In the bottom of the ninth one could only helplessly bystand, shake one’s head, and murmur, “That’s baseball.” By merely standing on the same spot of the field as Edgar Renteria Julio Lugo inherited the former’s error-prone ways. Notably it was Renteria’s ball that Lugo flubbed.

Ivan Rodriguez bunted over both baserunners and Curtis Granderson drove in the tying run on a ground out. The solid Placido Polanco was next at dish, determined to improve on his four-hit evening.

Polanco’s Texas Leaguer beyond the reach of the fully-extended Lugo pushed Renteria over home plate for the win and the end to Detroit’s five-game losing streak.

That’s baseball.

8 May 2008 ∙ 10:14 PM ∙ May 2008 Game Comments ∙ Permalink ∙ Comments: 0
Tags: Buchholz (Clay) ∙ Tigers

Game 35: May 6, 2008
Red Sox	5	W: Tim Wakefield (3-1)	22-13, 5 game winning streak
Tigers	0	L: Nate Robertson (1-4)	14-20, 5 game losing streak
Highlights: Wakefield turned in a brilliant eight-inning performance and Mike Timlin turned in a scoreless ninth to reduce his ERA to 11.05. It was the first combined shutout by pitchers older than 40. Not only did the knuckleballer strike out six but he had no walks, wild pitches, or passed balls.

Just as Tim Wakefield demonstrates parsimony with time in his outings my column will be frugal with words.

Kevin Cash continued to play a stellar backstop to Wakefield’s knuckler and contributed with the bat as well. The backup catcher went 3-for-4 with a run batted in on his second-inning double.

The Red Sox tacked on two more runs on consecutive homers by Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz. Ramirez’s shot ensconced itself in the center field shrubbery while Ortiz’s was fought over about a dozen rows up in the right field stands.

Ramirez hit his home run off a rookie Tiger’s first pitch of his major league career. Would it be too terrible of a joke to get the ball out of the foliage and have Wakefield’s calligraphic hand adorn it with “Freddy Dolsi’s first MLB pitch: 497th Career Home Run by Manny Ramirez, May 6, 2008, 7th inning, 0-0 count, 2 out” and give it to Dolsi?

I confess I was mostly watching the Celtics squeak out a close victory against the Cleveland Cavaliers (led by LeBron “Yankee Lover” James) in the Game 1 of the second round of the NBA playoffs, 76-72. At one point James adjusted his sweatband while bringing the ball down the court, inspiring well-deserved jeers from the crowd.

“Dirty Water” and a Gino Vanelli-tee wearing dude with smooth moves dancing to “Shake Your Booty” — who could ask for anything more?

7 May 2008 ∙ 7:30 PM ∙ May 2008 Game Comments ∙ Permalink ∙ Comments: 0
Tags: Cash (Kevin) ∙ Tigers ∙ Wakefield

Game 34: May 5, 2008
Red Sox	6	W: Daisuke Matsuzaka (5-0) H: Craig Hansen (1) H: Hideki Okajima (6) S: Jonathan Papelbon (10)	21-13, 4 game winning streak
Tigers	3	L: Jeremy Bonderman (2-3)	14-19, 4 game losing streak
Highlights: Matsuzaka issued a career-high eight walks in last night’s game. The Japanese word for base on balls is shikyū [四球], which translates literally to four balls. Shi is a homonym for the Japanese word for death; in fact, the word for dead ball is pronounced the same but uses the characters 死球. One would think with so many walks that Matsuzaka wouldn’t come out ahead, but he notched his fifth win to continue to lead the Red Sox staff in victories

Perhaps Daisuke Matsuzaka persevered because was Boys’ Day(端午の節句, tango no sekku). On Boys’ Day windsocks in the shape of carp (鯉のぼり, koinobori) are displayed. Koi means carp in Japanese and is also a homonym for the Japanese word for love. When the carp is portrayed swimming upstream, however, it calls to mind the Chinese myth of a carp swimming up the Yellow River jumping over the Dragon Gate to be transformed into a dragon. So inspired by this imagery the Japanese added it to their own collection of mythos.

To celebrate the day Japanese people also bring out dolls of Japanese folk hero Kintarō (金太郎, Golden Boy), who as a child grew up with animals and rode a bear into battle instead of a horse. Kintarō is also depicted on the back of the upriver-bearing carp, a doubly auspicious icon.

So perhaps it was the image of the ever-striving carp and the brave warrior that spurred on Matsuzaka on the mound last night. In the face of his own self-created adversity the pitcher persisted, only allowing one of the eight walks he relinquished to cross home plate.

Craig Hansen wasn’t so lucky with the batters he walked. Maddeningly he walked Miguel Cabrera and Gary Sheffield consecutively to load the bases immediately after inducing a double play. The abrupt lack of location prompted Terry Francona to call for Hideki Okajima.

Pinch hitter Marcus Thames replaced Matthew Joyce (who made his major league debut) and dropped a single into left. Manny Ramirez flaunted his barehanded catching technique but the time he saved by not gloving the ball did not stop two runs from scoring.

Boston had already built a lead with double and home run combos. Ramirez led off the second with a stand-up double to the right center gap and was driven in by Mike Lowell’s four-bagger into the bullpens. The visitors repeated the one-two punch in the fourth inning with Lowell sending a double down the third base line and Kevin Youkilis dipping into the homer goody jar that is the bullpen in left.

Encouragingly David Ortiz was responsible for the remaining two runs. He singled to the opposite field to drive in Dustin Pedroia and pulled a homer into right field, at last demonstrating his power to all quarters.

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Tags: Japanese language ∙ Matsuzaka ∙ Tigers

Game 33: May 4, 2008
Rays	3	L: Scott Kazmir (0-1)	16-15, 3 game losing streak
Red Sox	7	W: Jon Lester (2-2) H: Manny Delcarmen (4) H: Hideki Okajima (5) S: Jonathan Papelbon (9)	20-13, 3 game winning streak
Highlights: According to this March 2007 Baseball Prospectus article by Dan Fox, Terry Francona ranks amongst the trailers of managers who would put on the double steal. He apparently wanted to make up for lost time in this game by having two twin swipes.

Who could blame him with blazers like Coco Crisp, Julio Lugo, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Dustin Pedroia batting in a row? Yes, you read right: Pedroia was part of the double steal in the first inning. The speedster at second base ran in tandem with Ellsbury. Given that Scott Kazmir began the season on the disabled list and this was his first major league start, it would be hard enough to react to conventional baseball let alone esoteric stratagems.

Terry Francona had to be the quirky manager since Joe Maddon wouldn’t be able to put on the shift with David Ortiz riding pine. Unlike Maddon’s maneuvers, Francona’s gambit paid off when Ellsbury scored on Kevin Youkilis’s sacrifice fly to center.

With a newly-inserted relief pitcher Trever Miller on the mound in the eighth the Red Sox duplicated scheme succesfully, this time with Lugo and Ellsbury. Youkilis again brought his men home, this time with a rope into left.

Youkilis had led off the previous inning with solo shot into the batter’s eye. The ball trampolined off the black tarp like Lucky the Leprechaun during the Celtics’ halftime show. (I needn’t have been so fretful about the cross-town roundballers, thankfully, as they embarrassed the upstart Hawks 99-65.)

Don Orsillo, weak from loss of blood from a shaving accident, had been calling Eric Hinske “Nathan Haynes” because he misread Jerry Remy’s writing. Haynes’s middle name is Raymond, which may explain why Haynes gets any playing time.

Hardly anyone remembers Hinske was on the Red Sox despite him sacrificing his face to the warning track gravel on a spectacular catch in right in 2007. Hinske clearly remembers the nuances of the foul line between home and third as he consummately bunted in the eighth so that the ball meandered along the line but never lost contact with chalk.

Mike Lowell jokingly moved the ball into foul territory after it came to a stop. The third baseman knew better than to blow the ball foul as Len Randle of the Mariners did back in 1981 since the rule had to be rewritten because of Randle.

In his postgame press conference Jon Lester looked as if his mother had dressed him for Sunday school: starched white shirt and a broad brown tie with thick gold stripes. He looked more in his element on the mound with his second consecutive quality start and fourth overall. With Lester’s solid start and contributions from the bullpen staff the Red Sox avenged the Rays’ sweep with one of their own, just in time for a 10-game road trip.

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Tags: Lester ∙ Rays ∙ Youkilis

Game 32: May 3, 2008
Rays	4	L: James Shields (3-2)	16-14, 2 game losing streak
Red Sox	12	W: Josh Beckett (3-2)	19-13, 2 game winning streak
Highlights: Now this looked more like the Devil Rays we know and love.

All but one of the Rays four pitchers allowed earned runs in their abbreviated appearances. James Shields, who heaved a complete-game shutout against the Red Sox less than a week ago, lasted only three and two-third innings. The local nine scored in every inning he took the hill. The parade of baserunners did not relent with Shields’s departure in the fourth.

When we last saw J.P. Howell on April 25 the left-handed reliever allowed the go-ahead run to score in the sixth with one out but then shut Boston down for the next two and two-third innings. Perhaps he showed a bit too much of his stuff that day because he was no mystery to Red Sox batters. The southpaw loaded the bases on four pitches to J.D. Drew and then plunked Jason Varitek to push in yet another run.

He got through the fifth inning unscathed but the uneventful inning may have given him false confidence. In the sixth he gave a free pass to Manny Ramirez. The pressing slugger advanced to third on Mike Lowell’s cue shot down the left field line and scored on Kevin Youkilis’s seeing-eye single through the hole.

I pictured Howell sipping a martini after the game wearing an ascot and navy blue monogrammed blazer while getting iced. I wished Joe Thurston was still with the team so Howell could pitch to him.

The only homers of the game were launched by Rays and both were off Josh Beckett: Gabe Gross knocked in two runs in the second and Akinori Iwamura rudely hit Ramirez’s home run countup with his eighth-inning four-bagger.

Since there were no longballs by the local nine the loudest the crowd got was in the fourth inning. With the score 5-3 in Boston’s favor, Beckett found himself in a jam. He had already allowed a leadoff double to Eric Hinske and two consecutive singles to plate the utility player. Beckett then walked seven-hole hitter Gross to load the bases, prompting John Farrell to visit his ace.

Together they drew up a plan: induce a fly ball to left field and have Ramirez gun down Carlos Peña at home to end the threat. It worked slightly better than Ramirez’s attempted deke on Hinske’s double.

Obviously Ramirez is spending too much time on defensive schemes to the deficit of his home run hitting.

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Tags: Beckett ∙ Ramirez (Manny) ∙ Rays

Game 31: May 2, 2008
Rays	3	L: Edwin Jackson (2-3)	16-13, 1 game losing streak
Red Sox	7	W: Clay Buchholz (2-2) H: Manny Delcarmen (3) H: Hideki Okajima (4)	18-13, 1 game winning streak
Highlights: Brandon Moss took advantage of J.D. Drew’s absence and made our hearts grow fonder. With this win Boston broke the logjam at the top of the AL East and its cuisine reigns supreme in the division. Nothing compares to home cooking.

If three-quarters of the crowd wasn’t already in alcohol-induced stupor by the top of the second inning because of the two-hour, twenty-seven minute rain delay, Brandon Moss would be a Boston folk hero today. Moss’s feats were on par with those of Chuck Norris or Bill Brasky.

The call-up cut down Evan Longoria at home in the second to stop the Rays from scoring first. He came up with Jason Bartlett’s looper but didn’t rush his relay. Moss made sure he had proper footing in the dampness of shallow outfield, pointed himself to the plate, and heaved the ball into Jason Varitek’s waiting mitt.

Longoria, after a few seconds of laying prone across the batter’s boxes, pulled himself upright and flung his helmet down in disgust.

The Rays’ prized rookie wasn’t the only one who would be foiled by Moss in a scoring attempt. Old friend Eric Hinske (who didn’t get a warm reception as one of the 25 of 2007; perhaps the rousing round of applause was stifled by gloves) sent a towering fly ball to right field in the top of the fourth. Moss planted himself steps from the wall and made a last-second arm adjustment to glove the first out of the inning.

In the bottom of the same inning Moss rocketed a shot to dead center off the camera hut. The home run sparked a two-out barrage that would total five runs by the time the smoke had cleared.

Somewhere in the midst of the offensive onslaught my friend noted that Varitek had changed his at-bat music. No longer does 3 Doors Down’s biggest (only?) hit reverberate across the park, but we couldn’t make out the backstop’s replacement tune.

Clay Buchholz didn’t pitch as well as his most recent start but was bolstered by his bats in this second go-around against Edwin Jackson. Varitek seemed particularly mother hen-like last night, visiting the rookie pitcher even when he was ahead of the count.

Kudos to Red Sox management for saying they intended to have the game completed last evening and meaning it. Boos to the MBTA for not being flexible enough to have some sort of contingency plan to allow for trains to run longer to accommodate baseball fans.

3 May 2008 ∙ 6:11 PM ∙ May 2008 Game Comments ∙ Permalink ∙ Comments: 0
Tags: Buchholz (Clay) ∙ games in-person ∙ Moss ∙ Rays

Game 30: May 1, 2008
Blue Jays	3	W: A.J. Burnett (3-2) H: Jesse Carlson (2) S: B.J. Ryan (3)	12-17, 1 game winning streak
Red Sox	0	L: Tim Wakefield (2-1)	17-13, 1 game losing streak
Highlights: A.J. Burnett is the pitcher’s version of J.D. Drew: often injured but capable of sparks of brilliance from time to time. Last night was one of those times for Burnett (but not for Drew, who is still resting his left quadriceps).

David Ortiz used every ounce of brawn to break the shift against him last night. In the fourth he led off with a liner over the heads of three infielders and in the sixth he englished a grounder past Aaron Hill. But the only other Red Sox player to tally a hit against A.J. Burnett was Mike Lowell, who doubled into no-man’s land between Vernon Wells and Alex Rios in the second.

The home team had the opportunity to convert Burnett’s five bases on balls into scores but failed to do so. The paltry hitting conspired to hold the team scoreless for just the second time this season (the first time was in Tampa on April 27 with Josh Beckett on the hill).

With Wakefield on the mound I was reminded of the Red Sox Trivia Question from Tuesday’s game: Name three players in uniform who were members of the 1995 American League East Champion Red Sox. Of course Wakefield was the first and most obvious answer; the other two were Luis Alicea and Matt Stairs.

That year the 28-year old Wakefield led the team with 16 wins, 29-year old Alicea turned in a passable performance at second base (.270 BA, .367 OBP, .375 slugging), and 27-year old Stairs played 39 games and had a triple and was caught stealing once. Given the former outfielder’s physique (which isn’t much different from the body he inhabits today) both events must have inspired raucous laughter. Alicea looks younger than all of them while Stairs looks as if he should be lining up for the early bird special at Century House with a minivan full of retired men in Bermuda shorts hiked up over their bellybuttons.

The crispness of the evening imbued the players with exceptional defensive reaction time. In the top of the fourth Manny Ramirez scrambled to the wall to chase down Rios’s swiftly falling fly ball. The bases were loaded and a miss would mean at least two runs on the board. But the left fielder stretched for a last-second snag for the final out.

Not to be outdone, Aaron Hill snared a rope of a shot off the bat of Brandon Moss in the bottom half of the same inning with a cat-like lunge. Ortiz, pushed to second thanks to a five-pitch walk to Ramirez, was handily doubled off when the Blue Jays’ second baseman trotted to the keystone bag to complete the unassisted, inning-killing double play.

John Gibbons must have thought that the MLB officiating crew was surreptitiously replaced by NBA referees in the bottom of the ninth. B.J. Ryan compiled two quick outs and appeared to have induced a game-ending fly out to Rios, who came into shallow right to catch Coco Crisp’s pop-up.

NESN flashed the final score on the screen and Ryan prepared to high-five his teammates when Bruce Dreckman halted the celebration. Ryan swiveled his body about as best he could, given he has no neck, to figure out why the game wasn’t in the history books. The festivities were premature as the second baseman umpire called a balk on the no-necked closer.

Moss advanced to second and with his second chance Crisp smacked a single into right. Rookie Jed Lowrie took the box and came on the short end of Gerry Davis’s ball and strike calls.

It is not known if Davis’s crew will be assisting in what will probably be another skewed officiating session in Atlanta this evening for Game 6 of the Celtics’ first-round playoff series.

I’ll be at tonight’s game hoping that the weather and the Red Sox hittters’ bats heat up.

2 May 2008 ∙ 2:52 PM ∙ May 2008 Game Comments ∙ Permalink ∙ Comments: 0
Tags: Blue Jays ∙ Wakefield