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hitomi #1 wrote:
Sox sweep the A's by winning tonight 6-4. So-so game for Dice-K who picked up the win, 3 runs in 6 1/3 innings, and what may be a first in that he didn't walk a batter!

Quote from Dice-K: ''I was thinking during my previous outing that if I'm going to give up all those walks, I'm better off just trying to let them hit it,'' Matsuzaka said.

gaijinmark wrote:Quote from Dice-K: ''I was thinking during my previous outing that if I'm going to give up all those walks, I'm better off just trying to let them hit it,'' Matsuzaka said.

LOL, in other words, "I should throw strikes." :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:Sounds like we should've had our third (!) perfect game this season: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100603/ap_on_sp_ba_ga_su/bba_indians_tigers

To coin an old phrase, "We wuz robbed!"

Robbed is right, watching the replay what was the ump thinking? :usuck: Won't go in the record books as one, but any baseball fan knows that he was perfect. :applaud:

gaijinmark wrote:

Quote from Dice-K: ''I was thinking during my previous outing that if I'm going to give up all those walks, I'm better off just trying to let them hit it,'' Matsuzaka said.

Having them hit it will also allow him to go deeper into games, all those walks add up to a lot of pitches. :nut: If the Sox have him starightened, they're gonna be tough the rest of the year. :woot: What a tough division though, someone from the Sox, Yanks and Rays aren't going to the playoffs, odd team out could easily win 95 games.

hitomi #1 wrote:Won't go in the record books as one, but any baseball fan knows that he was perfect. :applaud:

Small consolation for the pitcher... Don't know why baseball is so resistant to instant replays for review. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Small consolation for the pitcher... Don't know why baseball is so resistant to instant replays for review. :sweat:

Calls like that are what may do it, :fingerscrossed: they can do it for HRs to see if it's fair or not, think they're worried it'll be like the NFL and take 2-3 minutes just to review an obvious call. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:
+1.

A sad day in baseball and in sports. :(

Yeah, he had a bit of class to him which others don't, think his father brought him up right about respecting the game and fans. :applaud: Plus when he became a free agent in 2000 he elected to stay with his hometown team, shame he never made it to a WS. :shamefulcry:

hitomi #1 wrote:Calls like that are what may do it, :fingerscrossed: they can do it for HRs to see if it's fair or not, think they're worried it'll be like the NFL and take 2-3 minutes just to review an obvious call. :bleh:

Yeah, there's been considerable griping about the length of games, but hey, this is baseball... :beatyou:

bmwracer wrote:
Yeah, there's been considerable griping about the length of games, but hey, this is baseball... :beatyou:

That was the shortest game of the year so far, 1:44, but yeah seeing as how most games go 3+ hours, what's a couple more minutes, :muack: sure a couple fans need that break to go fill up their beer cups. :bleh:

hitomi #1 wrote:That was the shortest game of the year so far, 1:44, but yeah seeing as how most games go 3+ hours, what's a couple more minutes, :muack: sure a couple fans need that break to go fill up their beer cups. :bleh:

Not after the 7th inning. :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
Not after the 7th inning. :mrgreen:

Must be hard during those 14 inning games, :hehe: not like up North where it's fairly easy to make good use of those winter coats. :naughty:

hitomi #1 wrote:Must be hard during those 14 inning games, :hehe:

That's why you need to pace yourself. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
That's why you need to pace yourself. :victory:

Most can, little too hard for those 'bleacher bums'. :doh:

Sox lose to Oakland, the bad pitching in this series finally caught up with us. :sweat:

Jav_sol wrote:Sox lose to Oakland, the bad pitching in this series finally caught up with us. :sweat:

Aces of the staff are up the next 2 games, Bucholz and Lester. :victory: Sox travel to Baltimore for some revenge as earlier this season they were swept there for the first time since 1974. :grumble:

hitomi #1 wrote:Most can, little too hard for those 'bleacher bums'. :doh:

More like "Belching Bums." :hehe:

Talk about irony: Dodgers are down 4-3 to the Braves in the bottom of the ninth and facing Takashi Saito... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:Talk about irony: Dodgers are down 4-3 to the Braves in the bottom of the ninth and facing Takashi Saito... :sweat:

But Saito pulled a hamstring and they had to bring in Venters to get the save.

gaijinmark wrote:But Saito pulled a hamstring and they had to bring in Venters to get the save.

Saw that.

Poor guy... Faces his old team and hurts himself. :(

I'd take him over Broxton any day of the week.

gaijinmark wrote:

But Saito pulled a hamstring and they had to bring in Venters to get the save.

Shame on that, :shamefulcry: sure he wanted a little revenge. Just hoping that Wagner was just getting a night off which is why they brought him in. :grumble: