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Hisashi Iwakuma’s family name uses two characters: 岩隈. The first means rock or crag and the second means corner, nook, recess, shadow, or shade. He did have a rocky outing that would make any starter want to hide in a corner: 3 innings pitched, 8 hits, 6 earned runs, 3 strikeouts, and 3 home runs. But hey, no bases on balls! Allen Webster faired poorly, too: 2⅓ innings, 6 hits, 7 earned runs, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts, and 2 homers. Who knew that in spacious Safeco teams could put up double digits in runs in consecutive games? Bringing in the fences certainly helped with production in this series. Prior to the game Shane Victorino stumped for Koji Uehara. Vote if you haven’t yet. Uehara has dropped to fourth place despite logging his sixth save with a perfect ninth inning performance. Eric Wedge, your beard is weird. Your ’stache is trash. Your bullpen is an oozing wen. Game 92: July 9, 2013 Boston Red Sox55-37 11 W: Craig Breslow (3-2)H: Andrew Bailey (7)S: Koji Uehara (6)2B: David Ortiz – 2 (21), Jarrod Saltalamacchia (24)HR: Ortiz (18), Dustin Pedroia (6), Mike Napoli (11), Jackie Bradley, Jr. (2), Shane Victorino (4) Seattle Mariners40-50...
I’m not the first to point out the similarities between Eric Wedge and Ron Swanson, the burly man’s man from “Parks and Recreation.” Wedge drove home the resemblance by taking his team to the mat for their poor offensive performance in Saturday’s game. “You’ve got to play every day like it’s your last, and some of the people out here need to be playing every day like it’s their last,” he said ominously. The Mariners are last in their division so it is likely that the team will be sellers as the trade deadline approaches. Wedge is likely getting together a list for general manager Jack Zduriencik about who upholds the principles of the Swanson Pyramid of Greatness and who does not. Wedge continued, “There’s just a certain way we’re going to go about things here. I didn’t bring my butt all the way out here to do it any other way. And we are going to be a championship team. Whether it’s with all these guys or some of these guys is yet to be determined. But there’s a vision here.” The vision probably isn’t being 2-for-8 with runners in scoring position, but at least Chone Figgins got enough...
Game 159: October 1, 2009 Indians0L: Carlos Carrasco (0-4)65-94, 2 game losing streak Red Sox3W: Jon Lester (15-8)H: Daniel Bard (13)H: Billy Wagner (5)S: Jonathan Papelbon (38)92-67, 1 game winning streak Highlights: A win, a very palpable win. MLB.com now has a Game Pulse section on its Gameday Wrap tab which tracks the amount of Twitter traffic tagged with #redsox and #indians. Eric Wedge tweets from the Cleveland dugout: @terryfrancona do u need new bench coach if Millsy takes my job? Call me. @AmalieBenjamin any word on openings with Os or Stros? I def won’t miss visitors clubhouse at Fenway--so small Always glaze over when the umps tell me the ground rules here, esp Randa“zzz”o Damn Ellsbury is fast, just looked down to check email and suddenly he’s on third Shoulda had Carlos join the club and plunk Youk Marte Mota & Shoppach for Crisp, Bard the catcher & Riske then Crisp flipped for Ramirez. Advantage: Push @MShapiroIndiansGM Masterson Hagadone & Price for VMart. Advantage: Theo (yeah, I said it!) Another VMart extra base hit... and it’s me that gets canned and not Shapiro for trading him How did Papi get around on that? And Youk was safe at third?...
Game 29: May 7, 2009 Indians3L: Jeremy Sowers (0-1)11-18, 1 game losing streak Red Sox13W: Tim Wakefield (4-1)18-11, 1 game winning streak Highlights: This was the last game Dom DiMaggio watched before he passed away. He witnessed the only professional team he played on tie the record for runs scored before recording an out. Rest in peace, Professor. The Red Sox went into the bottom of the sixth trailing 2-1. They say things can go south very quickly with Tim Wakefield pitching, but last night that truism applied to all of Cleveland’s arms.Jason Bay knocked in the tying run with a gapper between left and center. Then the freshly activated Rocco Baldelli lined a shot over Luis Valbuena for the go-ahead run plus an insurance run.After that the Indians hurlers passed out runs like banks gave away subprime mortgages in 2005. Jeremy Sowers pitched to six batters and Masa Kobayashi five; neither of them notched a single out. Matt Herges eventually got his team out of the inning, but not before Bay, with two runners on, smashed his eighth homer of the season.The oddest hit of the inning was Nick Green’s. He earned his single by outrunning Valbuena to the...
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