Game 35 Recap
BOS – 030 000 200 – 5 – 11 – 1
DET – 000 000 000 – 0 – 3 – 0
The Sox got a masterpiece from Tim Wakefield and guaranteed themselves at least a split in Detroit this week with a 5-0 victory.
The story of this one was simply Timothy Stephen Wakefield. Starting with a Curtis Granderson groundout to shortstop and ending a little over two hours later with a Brandon Inge groundout to third he was brilliant.
Wakefield gave the Sox precisely what they needed on a day when neither Jonathan Papelbon or Hideki Okajima was expected to be available. There is something beautiful about Tim Wakefield when he pitches like this. He works quickly, the fielders are involved and there are not a lot of sharply hit balls.
Give credit to Kevin Cash who seems to be working very well with Wakefield. Wake didn’t use the curveball or fastball a lot in this game but he used them expertly tonight, just at the right moments. Cash (and Mirabelli before him) don’t get much due for having to call a game but it is part of catching, even when catching Wakefield and Cash did it well tonight.
Manny Ramirez struck number 497 on the first MLB pitch from Freddie Dolsi of the Tigers. You gotta feel for the kid though giving up a homer on the first pitch of his career hasn’t hurt Hideki Okajima so maybe this kid will shine for Jim Leyland’s men.
- Ortiz and Youkilis both look comfortable at the plate these days. Since bottoming out at .070 on April 12th Ortiz has hit .312 with five homers and 23 RBI in 18 games.
- If it was me I’d have let Wakefield finish, he was cruising.
- It should be noted how dominant the Sox’ starters have been. Starting with Masterson’s start on April 24th the Sox have 10 quality starts in 12 games with an ERA of 1.88. Of the two non-quality starts one of them was a 5 1/3 inning performance in which Buchholz only allowed one run and the other was Beckett’s 8IP/4 run performance Saturday night.
May 6, 1988 – The Sox lost 5-0 to the Twins as Frank Viola twirled a seven hit shutout. On the mound Jeff Sellers did not have his best stuff walking five and allowing five runs in six innings despite eight strikeouts.
New York 20 – 9 –
T4 Boston 15 -11 – 3 ½
DET – 000 000 000 – 0 – 3 – 0
The Sox got a masterpiece from Tim Wakefield and guaranteed themselves at least a split in Detroit this week with a 5-0 victory.
The story of this one was simply Timothy Stephen Wakefield. Starting with a Curtis Granderson groundout to shortstop and ending a little over two hours later with a Brandon Inge groundout to third he was brilliant.
Wakefield gave the Sox precisely what they needed on a day when neither Jonathan Papelbon or Hideki Okajima was expected to be available. There is something beautiful about Tim Wakefield when he pitches like this. He works quickly, the fielders are involved and there are not a lot of sharply hit balls.
Give credit to Kevin Cash who seems to be working very well with Wakefield. Wake didn’t use the curveball or fastball a lot in this game but he used them expertly tonight, just at the right moments. Cash (and Mirabelli before him) don’t get much due for having to call a game but it is part of catching, even when catching Wakefield and Cash did it well tonight.
Manny Ramirez struck number 497 on the first MLB pitch from Freddie Dolsi of the Tigers. You gotta feel for the kid though giving up a homer on the first pitch of his career hasn’t hurt Hideki Okajima so maybe this kid will shine for Jim Leyland’s men.
- Ortiz and Youkilis both look comfortable at the plate these days. Since bottoming out at .070 on April 12th Ortiz has hit .312 with five homers and 23 RBI in 18 games.
- If it was me I’d have let Wakefield finish, he was cruising.
- It should be noted how dominant the Sox’ starters have been. Starting with Masterson’s start on April 24th the Sox have 10 quality starts in 12 games with an ERA of 1.88. Of the two non-quality starts one of them was a 5 1/3 inning performance in which Buchholz only allowed one run and the other was Beckett’s 8IP/4 run performance Saturday night.
May 6, 1988 – The Sox lost 5-0 to the Twins as Frank Viola twirled a seven hit shutout. On the mound Jeff Sellers did not have his best stuff walking five and allowing five runs in six innings despite eight strikeouts.
New York 20 – 9 –
T4 Boston 15 -11 – 3 ½
1 Comments:
At 7:53 AM,
Anonymous said…
Freddie,
You're right that Wake should have been allowed to finish, he doesn't get a lot of chances for a complete game shutout. How about some props for the other side of Cash - hitting! It may be early but a .901 OPS is nothing to sneeze at. I realize he almost certainly regresses to his mean at some point but he deserves some credit for hitting very well for almost half of the team's games to date.
-Dan
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