Red Sox Weekly Recap 6/1 - 6/7
6/1 at Baltimore Orioles (9-4 W)
Bartolo Colon picks up his third win of the season thanks to a 6 inning, 5 K, 4 ER performance. Manny, Lowell and Drew all went deep for the good guys. Javier Lopez, Craig Hansen and Manny Delcarmen combined for scoreless seventh, eighth and ninth innings respectively. Manny's homer was the 501st of his career and his second in as many days.
6/2 at Baltimore Orioles (6-3 L)
Manny's 502nd homer wasn't enough to keep the Sox on top as the Orioles completed a four-run-rally in the eighth. After another superb Wakefield outing (7 innings, 3Ks, 2 ER), Hideki Okajma came in and coughed up 4 earned runs to earn his first loss of the season. Manny and Lowell continued to make the Orioles pay at the plate as the Sox's fourth and fifth batters finished with two hits apiece.
6/3 vs. Tampa Bay Rays (7-4 W)
After a 4-6 road trip, the Sox returned home in a big way. Lowell and Drew had two-run homers, while Justin Masterson held the Rays to 4 runs over 6 innings to pick up his second win. With 5 strikeouts on the game, the only negative to be found in Masterson's masterful start is the fact that he gave up 2 long balls to the likes of Carlos Pena (not so surprising) and Akinori Iwamura (absolutely unacceptable).
6/4 vs. Tampa Bay Rays (5-1 W)
Call this game "The Prelude to the Fenway Fracas." Beckett gave up 1 run over 6 innings and recorded 5 Ks, but the big story in this one was the Coco Crisp/Jason Bartlett/Iwamura altercation. Bartlett blocked second base while Coco was sliding in on a steal attempt in the sixth, prompting Crisp to take out Iwamura while sliding hard into second toward the end of the game. As most of you already know, this issue would come back in the third and final game of the series the next day.
6/5 vs. Tampa Bay Rays (7-1 W)
Normally, the big things to report in this one would be Manny picking up his thirteenth homer of the season and Jon Lester limiting the Rays to 1 run over 6.1 innings, but the main event was the benches-clearing brawl in the second inning. Coco took exception to a James Shields fastball that ran in and hit him (also worth noting is the fact that Shields had already plunked Dusty in the first), so he charged the mound. After eluding a wild haymaker from Shields, Coco reared back and landed a right on Shields' cheek. The benches cleared and after Dioner Navarro took Coco down, the cowardly Jonny Gomes lit into the ribs of the defenseless Coco Crisp. Suspensions followed, but the Sox ultimately had the last laugh as they completed the sweep of the former front-runners of the AL East.
6/6 vs. Seattle Mariners (8-0 L)
Felix Hernandez looked like the King Felix everyone's been hyping him up to be since he burst onto the scene a couple years ago. Hernandez recorded 5 Ks and scattered 6 hits over 6 innings and sent Bartolo Colon (5 innings, 3 ER, 3 Ks) to his first loss of the year. The Sox recorded 3 errors on the night with Colon accounting for 2 of the miscues by himself. Sean Casey filled in at DH and recorded 3 hits in 4 trips to the plate.
6/7 vs. Seattle Mariners (11-3 W)
Batting out of the three-spot, J.D. went 3-5 with 3 runs scored and 2 RBIs thanks partly to his seventh homer. Manny was slotted in at DH and picked up a 2 run homer of his own. Wakefield went above and beyond once again as he went 7 full, gave up 2 earned runs and recorded 6 Ks. Perhaps most impressive is the fact that at one point, this game featured knuckleballers (Wakefield and the immortal R.A. Dickey) going up against each other.
Bartolo Colon picks up his third win of the season thanks to a 6 inning, 5 K, 4 ER performance. Manny, Lowell and Drew all went deep for the good guys. Javier Lopez, Craig Hansen and Manny Delcarmen combined for scoreless seventh, eighth and ninth innings respectively. Manny's homer was the 501st of his career and his second in as many days.
6/2 at Baltimore Orioles (6-3 L)
Manny's 502nd homer wasn't enough to keep the Sox on top as the Orioles completed a four-run-rally in the eighth. After another superb Wakefield outing (7 innings, 3Ks, 2 ER), Hideki Okajma came in and coughed up 4 earned runs to earn his first loss of the season. Manny and Lowell continued to make the Orioles pay at the plate as the Sox's fourth and fifth batters finished with two hits apiece.
6/3 vs. Tampa Bay Rays (7-4 W)
After a 4-6 road trip, the Sox returned home in a big way. Lowell and Drew had two-run homers, while Justin Masterson held the Rays to 4 runs over 6 innings to pick up his second win. With 5 strikeouts on the game, the only negative to be found in Masterson's masterful start is the fact that he gave up 2 long balls to the likes of Carlos Pena (not so surprising) and Akinori Iwamura (absolutely unacceptable).
6/4 vs. Tampa Bay Rays (5-1 W)
Call this game "The Prelude to the Fenway Fracas." Beckett gave up 1 run over 6 innings and recorded 5 Ks, but the big story in this one was the Coco Crisp/Jason Bartlett/Iwamura altercation. Bartlett blocked second base while Coco was sliding in on a steal attempt in the sixth, prompting Crisp to take out Iwamura while sliding hard into second toward the end of the game. As most of you already know, this issue would come back in the third and final game of the series the next day.
6/5 vs. Tampa Bay Rays (7-1 W)
Normally, the big things to report in this one would be Manny picking up his thirteenth homer of the season and Jon Lester limiting the Rays to 1 run over 6.1 innings, but the main event was the benches-clearing brawl in the second inning. Coco took exception to a James Shields fastball that ran in and hit him (also worth noting is the fact that Shields had already plunked Dusty in the first), so he charged the mound. After eluding a wild haymaker from Shields, Coco reared back and landed a right on Shields' cheek. The benches cleared and after Dioner Navarro took Coco down, the cowardly Jonny Gomes lit into the ribs of the defenseless Coco Crisp. Suspensions followed, but the Sox ultimately had the last laugh as they completed the sweep of the former front-runners of the AL East.
6/6 vs. Seattle Mariners (8-0 L)
Felix Hernandez looked like the King Felix everyone's been hyping him up to be since he burst onto the scene a couple years ago. Hernandez recorded 5 Ks and scattered 6 hits over 6 innings and sent Bartolo Colon (5 innings, 3 ER, 3 Ks) to his first loss of the year. The Sox recorded 3 errors on the night with Colon accounting for 2 of the miscues by himself. Sean Casey filled in at DH and recorded 3 hits in 4 trips to the plate.
6/7 vs. Seattle Mariners (11-3 W)
Batting out of the three-spot, J.D. went 3-5 with 3 runs scored and 2 RBIs thanks partly to his seventh homer. Manny was slotted in at DH and picked up a 2 run homer of his own. Wakefield went above and beyond once again as he went 7 full, gave up 2 earned runs and recorded 6 Ks. Perhaps most impressive is the fact that at one point, this game featured knuckleballers (Wakefield and the immortal R.A. Dickey) going up against each other.
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