April 23, 2006: Red Sox 13 Blue Jays 7
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
| This game is a perfect illustration of the fallacy of W-L record as a measure of comparing pitchers. There's no way that Vag deserves a win in this game, yet he gets one. (Side note: in the real 2006 season, Matt Clement would get unexplained injuries that ended up being a case of dead arm. He is still uncertain for the 2007 season, even though the Sox will pay him $9.5M in 2007. As a result, I started making jokes about how he couldn't pitch because he had a sore vagina. and thus, the nickname of "Vag" was born. Since he's decided to suck in my SOM replay, the Vag nickname will live on) The Sox got 4 right away in this one off Blue Jays starter Josh Towers, who was wisely pulled early to stop the bleeding. The Blue Jays clawed back and took the lead in the 4th, which the Red Sox would tie in the 6th when Manny Ramirez led off the inning with a solo home run. 9 batters later, Ramirez was up again with only one out and the Red Sox had a 4 run lead. The big hit in the inning belongs to Alex Gonzalez, who hit a bases loaded double that would score the winning runner. |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 2006 Boston Red Sox At 2006 Toronto Blue Jays 4/23/2006
Red Sox AB R H RBI AVG Blue Jays AB R H RBI AVG
K.Youkilis 1B 6 2 2 3 .278 R.Adams SS 5 1 3 3 .213
M.Loretta 2B 4 0 0 0 .250 F.Catalanotto LF 5 0 2 2 .262
D.Ortiz DH 5 1 3 2 .311 V.Wells CF 4 0 0 0 .343
M.Ramirez LF 4 2 2 2 .453 T.Glaus 3B 4 0 1 0 .279
T.Nixon RF 3 2 2 2 .237 L.Overbay 1B 5 1 1 1 .328
B-D.Murphy CF 0 0 0 0 .300 G.Zaun C 2 2 2 0 .600
J.Varitek C 4 1 0 0 .250 E.Hinske DH 4 2 3 1 .371
M.Lowell 3B 5 2 1 0 .296 A.Rios RF 5 0 0 0 .275
W.Harris CF 2 0 0 0 .000 A.Hill 2B 3 1 0 0 .323
A-W.Pena PH,RF 3 2 1 1 .364
A.Gonzalez SS 5 1 1 2 .203
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Totals 41 13 12 12 Totals 37 7 12 7
A-Pinch Hit For Harris In 6th Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (CF) For Nixon In 6th Inning
Red Sox......... 4 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 0 - 13 12 0
Blue Jays....... 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 - 7 12 3
Red Sox (11-8) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
M.Clement WIN(1-2) 5 6 5 5 6 4 1 97 5.48
R.Seanez 2 2 1 1 2 2 0 41 3.12
M.Timlin 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 15 3.37
J.Papelbon 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 15 1.80
Totals 9 12 7 7 8 7 1
Blue Jays (12-5) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Towers 0 1/3 4 4 4 0 0 2 17 12.10
S.Marcum LOSS(0-1) 5 4 3 3 1 7 1 72 5.40
S.Downs 3 2/3 4 6 2 3 5 0 90 8.36
Totals 9 12 13 9 4 12 3
ATTENDANCE- 48,619 DATE- Sunday, April 23rd 2006 TIME- Day WEATHER- Average
UMPIRES- Larry Young, Bill Hohn, Mike Everitt, Alfonso Marquez
T- 3:32
LEFT ON BASE- Red Sox: 6 Blue Jays:12
DOUBLE PLAYS- Red Sox: 1 Blue Jays: 0
ERRORS- R.Adams, T.Glaus, A.Hill
DOUBLES- W.Pena(4th), A.Gonzalez(2nd), R.Adams(1st), G.Zaun(1st), E.Hinske(2nd)
TRIPLES- F.Catalanotto(1st)
HOME RUNS- D.Ortiz(6th), M.Ramirez(8th), T.Nixon(2nd), L.Overbay(5th)
SACRIFICE FLIES- M.Ramirez
WALKS- M.Loretta, T.Nixon, D.Murphy, J.Varitek, R.Adams, V.Wells, T.Glaus,
G.Zaun-3, E.Hinske, A.Hill
HIT BY PITCH- A.Hill
STRIKE OUTS- K.Youkilis-3, M.Loretta, M.Ramirez-2, T.Nixon, J.Varitek, W.Harris,
W.Pena, A.Gonzalez-2, R.Adams, V.Wells, T.Glaus-2, E.Hinske,
A.Rios-2
GIDP- L.Overbay
WILD PITCHES- R.Seanez
David Ortiz hit a homerun and had 2 RBI as the Boston Red Sox defeated the
Toronto Blue Jays 13 to 7 at Rogers Centre.
Boston came up with 6 runs in the top of the 6th inning with the help of 6
hits. The crucial at-bat was provided by Alex Gonzalez who helped quiet the
crowd when he doubled which was good for two runs. Both teams ended up with
12 on the afternoon.
Matt Clement(1-2) went 5 innings allowing 5 runs for the win. Shaun
Marcum(0-1) took the loss in relief. He surrendered 3 runs and 4 hits in 5
innings.
posted by spooky @ 11:02 PM,
