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Entries from Empyreal Environs tagged with “Masterson (Justin)”

Justin Time

Just when you thought the Red Sox were spiraling into a tailspin they pulled off a series win against the division-leading Tampa Bay Rays. Boston is eight games back as we near the midpoint of the season. I would settle for a less lofty goal than the postseason, like an above .500 winning percentage or not finishing in last place. Justin Masterson returned to the team and while his pitching wasn’t impressive he turned in a yeoman-like five innings to prevail over Cy Young candidate Chris Archer. Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy are certainly happy with Masterson‘s return; with him comes his wife Meryl and with Meryl comes cookies. Masterson allowed five hits and gave up an unearned run while striking out six with no walks. Masterson’s line looks better on paper than his actual stuff, but then again Joe Kelly’s arsenal was spectacular with poor results. How much did David Ortiz enjoy smashing a home run off Archer in the fourth inning? This much. While Ortiz, Pablo Sandoval, and Alejandro De Aza clouted four-baggers one slugger made an early exit. Mike Napoli’s second-inning at bat ended when home plate umpire Tripp Gibson’s called strike against him. The Amica, or...

Just Not In Time

Justin Masterson had a dreadful outing. In the two and one-third innings he pitched he gave up six hits, two of them homers. All told he surrendered six earned runs as he walked one and struck out one. The day after this performance he found himself on the disabled list with arm fatigue. “I’m not real happy, but I don’t have to be,” said the beleaguered starter. No one is really happy when you have a pitcher who pressures his offense into having to produce. Maybe that is what Dustin Pedroia was thinking when he tried and failed to stretch his first-inning single into a double. Masterson was throwing batting practice speed to opponents and consistently forced his teammates to play from behind. With Masterson on the disabled list Steven Wright could be tapped to fill the hole in the rotation, but his five and two-thirds innings did not make a convincing case. Wright gave up six hits, three earned runs, and three walks while striking out four. Even the laws of physics seemed to favor the Athletics last night. When Sam Fuld nubbed the ball towards Pedroia with Brett Lawrie on the run from first it narrowly missed the...

Masterful

The Phillies surrendered a half a dozen runs in the third inning even after David Buchanan tallied the first two outs with just six pitches. David Ortiz sent a ground ball into the shift but Chase Utley couldn’t come up with it. Hanley Ramirez scorched the ball up the middle and Buchanan reflexively knocked it down. In a panic Buchanan gathered the ball and threw to an area he thought Ryan Howard inhabited but sadly for the Phillies pitcher there was only foul territory and the left field fence. Ramirez was credited with a single and Buchanan was sullied with a throwing error. Buchanan then walked Pablo Sandoval on four pitches to load the bases. Shane Victorino knocked the ball to Cody Asche. Asche was as clueless as Buchanan and failed to get an out when he could have come home to nail David Ortiz. Ryan Hanigan earned his first run batted in as a Red Sox player when Buchanan couldn’t find the strike zone again, giving the Boston backstop a four-pitch base on balls. Xander Bogaerts lofted the ball to right field. Jeff Francouer, the hero of the middle game of the series, failed to get a proper read...

Redone

In the last game of the 2014 season Derek Jeter played shortstop for the New York Yankees for the final time. In the third inning he faced off against Clay Buchholz with one out and Ichiro Suzuki at third base. He watched two fastballs over the plate, a strike and a ball respectively. Jeter fouled off a cutter but then tapped the ball towards third base for an infield single. And mercifully that was the last cheap hit and run batted in we will ever see off Jeter’s bat. Jeter, not Joe Girardi, decided when he would leave the field. Jeter’s retirement was just the start of the changes to these lineups. Ben Cherington had Red Sox fans celebrating Thanksgiving early when he announced that he had signed Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez on November 25, 2014. With the addition of a pair of powerful bats Yoenis Cespedes became a fungible asset. The signings didn’t impress Jon Lester enough to lure him back to the Red Sox. On December 10 Lester announced he signed with the Chicago Cubs. The Red Sox began cobbling back together a starting rotation the next day by signing back Justin Masterson and trading Cespedes, Alex...

We Can’t Work It Out

Grady Sizemore returned to Cleveland for the first time since his career came off the rails in 2011. He was part of the team that defeated the Yankees in the 2007 ALDS and pushed the Red Sox to a seven-game ALCS. He said it still feels like home, but Sizemore didn’t recreate the production of his heyday. Stephen Drew batted eighth and played short. He went 0-for-2 with a walk. At the keystone sack he was on the receiving end of two throws from A.J. Pierzynski that got to Drew’s glove in time but failed to get the runner out. Drew did take part of three double plays, however. Xander Bogaerts, who shifted to third base because of defensive issues, batted second and drove in the only Red Sox runs of the game with his two-run homer in the eighth inning. Nerd alert! Justin Masterson pitched poorly in the first inning but came around later in the game. In the fourth inning he had an immaculate inning: nine pitches, nine strikes, three strikeouts. Jonny Gomes, Sizemore, and Drew were the batters who were summarily dismissed. It was the 27th time an AL pitcher achieved this feat and the 74th time...

Cleveland Steoreotypes on a Roll

It’s 2011, the world hasn’t ended, the United States has an African-American president, and Cleveland’s professional baseball team still uses “Indians” as its nickname and has Chief Wahoo as its mascot. Other teams have mascots that are animals (Tigers, Orioles), items of clothing (the two Sox), and occupations or types of people (Brewers, Pirates, Dodgers). Only Atlanta and Cleveland stubbornly cling to mascots that denigrate Native Americans. Rather than tinkering with the postseason Bud Selig should do something that is truly in the best interests of baseball and force Larry Dolan and John Malone of Liberty Mutual to finally change their teams’ names. It wouldn’t hurt for them to establish a scholarship fund for people who will use their education to help Native American organizations (and I’m not talking about casinos) while they fundamentally change the face of their franchises. When Cleveland swept the Red Sox in the second series of the season it was thought to be a fluke. Since then the squad has established itself with the best record in the majors, reaching the 30-win mark before any other club. Justin Masterson, who looks like he is growing a playoff beard along with the Bruins, pitched well enough...

Master and Servant

Indians pitcher Justin Masterson is such a nice guy that his former teammates didn’t want to score runs off of him. The Red Sox lineup nubbed grounder after grounder to Cleveland’s infield; by the end of his nine innings Masterson tallied 17 ground ball outs. Only Victor Martinez and J.D. Drew managed singles off the lanky starter. The other two baserunners, Kevin Youkilis and Jeremy Hermida, reached on bases on balls. I suspect Masterson bribed the Boston ballplayers with his wife Meryl’s Home Plate Cookies. Clay Buchholz wasn’t his ace self on the mound: 7 innings pitched, 3 hits, 3 earned runs, 4 walks, and 1 strikeout. Although he gave up a handful of runs the game was winnable until Boof Bonser and Joe Nelson took over in the eighth. Bonser, whose smartest career move was to legally change his name from the banal “John” to the memorable “Boof,” pitched to four batters and didn’t notch an out. Nelson allowed all of the runners he inherited score in a most grandiose fashion: a four-bagger with ducks on the pond lofted into right field by Travis Hafner. Who knows if or when Bonser or Nelson will ever work it out. But...

Traders

Game 102: July 31, 2009 Red Sox6W: John Smoltz (2-4)H: Ramon Ramirez (10)H: Hideki Okajima (20)S: Jonathan Papelbon (27)60-42, 2 game winning streak Orioles5L: Jeremy Guthrie (7-10)44-58, 1 game losing streak Highlights: Smoltz muddled through six innings on the mound with a line of 8 hits, 5 earned runs, no walks, 2 strikeouts, and 2 homers. The grizzled pitcher carried that look that lingers on the visages of aging athletes, a look of befuddlement when the mind is willing but the body is no longer able. David Ortiz made his first road appearance since the allegations of the positive test from 2003 were revealed. Despite being 404 miles away from Fenway, for the most part cheers for him drowned out the jeers, which I don’t think happens to Alex Rodriguez in his travels. Ortiz’s two-run home run in the third sailed over the right field fences into a sea of Red Sox shirts.The Orioles quickly replied in the bottom of the same canto. Nick Green aided the opposition with an errant throw of Brian Roberts’s batted ball that allowed Matt Wieters to put his team on the board; the Red Sox middle infielder has a gun but needs some work...

Trio

Game 13: April 20, 2009 Orioles1L: Mark Hendrickson (1-2)6-7, 5 game losing streak Red Sox12W: Justin Masterson (1-0)H: Manny Delcarmen (1)7-6, 5 game winning streak Highlights: The Red Sox and Bruins have been hogging all the sports goodwill of late. They need to pass some over to the Celtics, who are down 0-1 in their series against the Bulls and went into the second half trailing. The Bruins are tied 2-2 in the second period. I’m far from a knowledgeable hockey fan, and I admit I was somewhat swayed into watching some matches by the clever commercials they have been airing. “But she’s so pretty....” The Red Sox don’t need cutesy advertisements to fire up their fan base. A sold out crowd of 37,865 showed up for 11:00 AM baseball on a weekday.(As I type this the Bruins went ahead 3-2 and the Celtics took the lead! Must. Keep. Writing.)Dustin Pedroia had as many hits today as Ray Allen had points in the first game. Allen is turning it around tonight, however.Speaking of turnarounds, reports of Jason Varitek’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. He is tied with Jason Bay, J.D. Drew, and Kevin Youkilis for the team lead in homers.As...

Clinch

Game 157: September 23, 2008 Indians 4 L: Cliff Lee (22-3) 79-78, 1 game losing streak Red Sox 5 W: Tim Wakefield (10-11)H: Manny Delcarmen (18)H: Hideki Okajima (23)H: Justin Masterson (3)S: Jonathan Papelbon (41) 92-65, 1 game winning streak Highlights: I wanted this. Not as much as I want Barack Obama in the White House, but close. I had hoped the Red Sox would cinch a spot in the playoffs on the day that Yankee Stadium closed, but the two events were close enough in time that in my senility I will remember them as happening in tandem. “Grandma, you’re wrong,” my know-it-all grandkids would whine. “I read it on your archived blog from that season. In 2008 the Red Sox clinched on September 23rd, but the last baseball game was played on September 21st!”“Just a few days off!” I’d snap back. “It was great how they put that Cy Young award winner in his place that game. That entire season that Lee guy only gave up more than five runs in a game four times, and one of the times he did it was against the Red Sox.”It’s 2038 and I drift into rhapsodic remembrances of the...

Rage

Game 151: September 16, 2008 Red Sox 1 L: Justin Masterson (6-5) 89-62, 1 game losing streak Rays 2 W: Dan Wheeler (5-5) 89-60, 1 game winning streak Highlights: Josh Beckett got Matt Cain-ed last night. A Cain-ing is defined as a pitcher turning in a stellar effort, such as Beckett’s eight innings of three-hit ball with seven strikeouts and a lone batter granted a free pass, but losing because of an impotent offense. Beckett’s margin for error was slim, and Carlos Peña’s game-tying solo shot in the seventh was the leverage the Rays needed to prevail at game’s end. The Rays are 28-17 in one-run games; the Red Sox are 18-22. Just call these guys Raysputin.Infuriatingly indefatigable, Tampa Bay’s backstop Dioner Navarro sent a 2-2 fastball out of the hand of Justin Masterson over Coco Crisp’s head to plate the winning run in the bottom of the ninth.Masterson had faced a similar challenge in the Bronx against Alex Rodriguez, but with the bases loaded and one out the gangly reliever could not get the better of former Yankee farm product Navarro.The visitors scraped up one run in the sixth. It was the second time in the game the...

Peroration

Game 131: August 26, 2008 Red Sox 7 W: Tim Wakefield (8-8)H: Justin Masterson (2)H: Hideki Okajima (20)S: Jonathan Papelbon (34) 76-55, 2 game winning streak Yankees 3 L: Andy Pettitte (13-10) 70-61, 1 game losing streak Highlights: Thus begins the first part of three wherein paeans to the nearly departed Yankee Stadium are sung, a national pastime in which even NESN will indulge. Bring your Bose QuietComfort headphones, at least until the Red Sox bullpen begins their drumming. Don’t discredit the buzz that musicians generate; the release of Masterson’s Olympia Sports commercial demonstrates that musical ability, solid pitching, and charisma can garner one endorsement deals. The lanky pitcher made the leap from Double-A to the majors with nonchalance; as Jed Lowrie has taken to making big league contributions without much fanfare so has Masterson assumed the role of spot starter and then reliable reliever without the ballyhoo of a Clay Buchholz. He made the rounds between Portland, Boston, and Pawtucket, but Fenway is where he’ll stay for the rest of the season. As heartening as Manny Delcarmen’s “local boy does good” story is, the pitcher that impresses most is Justin Masterson. Not every 23-year old rookie possesses the...

Holding

Game 128: August 22, 2008 Red Sox 8 W: Paul Byrd (8-11)H: Justin Masterson (1) 74-54, 1 game winning streak Blue Jays 4 L: Shaun Marcum (8-6) 66-62, 1 game losing streak Highlights: Byrd reminds me of John Burkett, who signed with the Red Sox as a free agent in late 2001 and turned in two adequate seasons in 2002 and 2003. What these pitchers don’t have in stuff they make up for in guile. When pitchers such as these are on the hill, the offense must be prepared to score more than four or five runs, which is what they will typically surrender. The bullpen should be ready for three, or, if they are lucky, two innings of shutdown ball. The pieces of the puzzle fell into place for the Red Sox last night for a road win, something that has been a more common occurrence for Boston lately. How the visiting team would muster up the requisite number of runs to support Paul Byrd was uncertain. J.D. Drew was scratched from the lineup because his herniated disk was acting up, Mike Lowell is in the midst of his disabled list stint due to a strained oblique, and...

Errors

Game 118: August 10, 2008 Red Sox 5 L: Clay Buchholz (2-8) 67-51, 1 game losing streak White Sox 6 W: Gavin Floyd (12-6)H: Matt Thornton (12)H: Octavio Dotel (17)S: Bobby Jenks (24) 66-51, 1 game winning streak Highlights: The weight of August expectations seems too heavy a burden for Buchholz’s slender shoulders. The rookie hasn’t been able to sustain effectiveness against major league bats multiple times through the lineup. Jerry Remy said that clubs have a book on him and know that he tends to pitch backwards. A pitcher might be able to sneak a yakker by Jim Thome once on the first pitch, but not twice. At this point it might be better to bring up David Pauley for another go-around or reinsert Justin Masterson back into the rotation. Clay Buchholz simply has not been able to get the job done. Masterson was the most impressive pitcher on the mound yesterday, inclusive of White Sox arms. The lanky sinkerballer struck out five, walked none, and allowed a single to Nick Swisher in his two and two-thirds innings toeing the rubber.Mike Lowell put his team on the board first with his three-run four-bagger in the first. At the...

Overwhelm

Game 103: July 23, 2008 ∙ 12 innings Red Sox 6 W: Jonathan Papelbon (4-3)S: Craig Hansen (2) 60-43, 3 game winning streak Mariners 3 L: Sean Green (2-3) 38-63, 5 game losing streak Highlights: The Rangers, the Nationals, the Mariners, and the Rays have never been to the World Series. Coincidentally, Alex Rodriguez has been on half of those teams. Since Rodriguez joined the Yankees in 2004, the team has not been to the Fall Classic, but his addition merely extended the Gotham goons trophy-free streak intact since 2001. (Just warming up for the upcoming series.) I got home in time for the fifth inning and I thought it would be nice to catch the last four innings to put away a series sweep. Jose Vidro had other plans.Vidro, the former second baseman converted to designated hitter, possesses a career slugging percentage of .445. In contrast, the Red Sox expect their invaluable DH to return to the lineup tomorrow, a man who has slugged .555 throughout his 11 seasons in the majors. Vidro, playing the role of the blind squirrel, found a nut in Clay Buchholz’s 2-0 fastball in the bottom of the sixth. When the unlikely homer...

Slight

Game 90: July 5, 2008 Red Sox 1 L: Justin Masterson 52-38, 1 game losing streak Yankees 2 W: Mike Mussina (11-6)H: Jose Veras (5)H: Kyle Farnsworth (10)S: Mariano Rivera (23) 46-42, 1 game winning streak Highlights: Joe Girardi’s motivational tactics made an impact at last. His team held the Red Sox at bay until the top of the ninth. The teams tied the record for combined hit batsmen with seven (Masterson hit Alex Rodriguez, Robinson Cano, and Jose Molina; Mussina plunked Ramirez twice; and Rivera hit Ramirez and Kevin Youkilis). In retrospect, the game was decided in the first inning. Dustin Pedroia, cocksure as always, attempted to stretch his single to left into a double. Perhaps the infielder forgot that it wasn’t Johnny Damon who roamed that portion of the outfield but Brett Gardner.The rookie Gardner isn’t noodle-armed like the veteran he replaced, so Pedroia was out at second easily. J.D. Drew smacked a double to right-center which could have plated Peewee.Mike Mussina’s approach would have been different were he pitching from a deficit in his six innings of work. He already had to grapple with Kerwin Danley’s inconsistent strike zone, making the old-timer even more tetchy than...

Catwalk

Game 85: June 30, 2008 Red Sox 4 L: Justin Masterson (4-2) 50-35, 3 game losing streak Rays 5 W: James Shields (6-5)H: Grant Balfour (1)H: Dan Wheeler (20)H: Troy Percival (2)S: J.P. Howell (2) 50-32, 2 game winning streak Highlights: Perhaps a bit of bad karma followed the Red Sox from the clubhouse to the field yesterday. Manny Ramirez uncharacteristically blew up at traveling secretary Jack McCormick Saturday afternoon in a row about tickets. McCormick was shoved to the ground as a result of the altercation over Ramirez’s request for 16 tickets for a game that evening. If Ramirez were a lesser player or McCormick a higher official, a closed-door apology probably wouldn’t cut the mustard. Just ask Shawn Chacon. I am more than a little disappointed in Manny Ramirez’s behavior. The instant one person elevates himself over another just because of assumed superior position is the moment that person needs to be taken down a notch.I harbored no illusions about Ramirez’s character being immaculate just because of prowess with the bat and his occasional flashes of brilliance on the field. Nor did I believe the portrayals of him by the knights of the keyboard who are all...

Presence

Game 80: June 24, 2008 Diamondbacks 4 BS, L: Chad Qualls (5, 1-6) 40-38, 1 game losing streak Red Sox 5 W: Chris Smith (1-0)S: Jonathan Papelbon (22) 48-32, 1 game winning streak Highlights: After I watched the game in person I saw the midnight replay on NESN. Never had I so thoroughly enjoyed attending the game in person and watching a broadcast of a game for completely different reasons. I left my office in Waltham on the early side to meet my friends at El Pelon Taqueria, a tiny but marvelous Mexican restaurant on Peterborough Street. The torrential thunderstorms impeded my driving progress, but the timing of my late arrival at the restaurant fortuitously allowed my friends and I to observe another cloudburst from a cozy table indoors while munching on taquitos and tamales.We slogged our way to Fenway without getting drenched. The passing dashes of rainwater cleansed the area and imparted a lustrous cast on the procession of flamboyant new buildings that have mushroomed in the Fens. When I lived there in the late 90s it was not unusual to walk past questionable places of commerce with graffiti scrawled along blank walls. Now gleaming clean concrete greeted...

Parallel

Game 75: June 18, 2008 Red Sox 7 W: Justin Masterson (4-1)H: Manny Delcarmen (10)S: Jonathan Papelbon (21) 46-29, 2 game winning streak Phillies 4 L: Kyle Kendrick (6-3) 42-32, 2 game losing streak Highlights: The consonance between Phillies starting pitcher’s first and last names calls to mind a character from a comic book. Kendrick was unable to summon “Above Replacement Level Man,” however, and abandoned the mound with a mere three innings under his belt and six earned runs ballooning his earned run average. Joba Chamberlain’s start today was actually better than Masterson’s; this is the first time this has happened since I began my informal comparison of the two. It should be noted that the Padres’ offensive is as weak as Pau Gasol in the post, however. Four of Boston’s seven runs came on first-inning homers by J.D. Drew (a three-run shot) and Mike Lowell (a solo blast to left right after Drew’s). David Ortiz recently had his cast removed, but with key players stepping up to fill the void, the designated hitter should be able to rest and completely recover rather than be immediately pressed into action.I do enjoy the interleague match-ups against the Phillies. Philadelphia,...

Crimson

Game 70: June 13, 2008 Red Sox 1 L: Justin Masterson (3-1) 42-28, 1 game losing streak Reds 3 W: Aaron Harang (3-9)H: Jared Burton (6)S: Francisco Cordero (13) 33-36, 2 game winning streak Highlights: The Red Sox played in Cincinnati for the first time since the 1975 World Series. That series alternated between Fenway Park and Riverfront Stadium. Although the Reds are the oldest club in the majors, the team broke with tradition and was the first home field using AstroTurf. It was disconcerting to watch replays of that fabled series as one venue was replete with oldtime baseball charm and the other was a sterile duplicate of many other multipurpose stadia erected in that era. Great American Ball Park is a vast improvement over its generic predecessor, although its dimensions make it an all too cozy place for both established sluggers like Adam Dunn and Ken Griffey, Jr. as well as the blossoming boomer Jay Bruce. Ballparks.com lists the following boundaries: left field foul pole: 328 feet; left field power alley: 379 feet; center field: 404 feet; right field power alley: 370 feet; right field foul pole: 325 feet; backstop: 55 feet.The space couldn’t contain Bruce’s leadoff...


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