Subscribe to The Tribe Source

Sunday, October 04, 2009

B & G's #161 10/3/09....Another Night, Same Story in Boston

B & G's #161 10/3/09

Cleveland Indians (65-95) Vs Boston Red Sox (93-67)
At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday October 3rd, 2009

Aaron Laffey (7-8, 3.91) Vs Josh Beckett (16-6, 3.78)
Final Score: Boston 11, Cleveland 6
W- Josh Beckett (17-6)
L- Aaron Laffey (7-9)

Baseballs:

**Victor Martinez- Victor went 1-3 at the plate, but the hit was big. He hit a grand slam Home Run, his 23rd Home Run of the season, 1st career grand slam. He drove in 4 runs, giving him 108 RBIs and Victor is now hitting .308.

**Brian Anderson- This is ridiculous. This kid has shown nothing in his career as a hitter, yet he goes 3-3 with a walk against us. He hit his 4Th Home Run of the year, drove in 3 runs, giving him 18 RBIs and is hitting .243.

**Dustin Pedroia- Dustin started the bottom of the 1st inning with a lead off Home Run, his 14Th Home Run of the season, he drove in his 70Th run and finished the night 1-2 with 3 walks and 2 runs scored. Dustin is now hitting .295.

**Dusty Brown- Dusty went 1-2, he hit his 1st career Home Run, drove in his 1st career RBI and is hitting .333.

**Casey Kotchman- Casey went 2-4 at the plate and is hitting .270.

**Kevin Youkilis- Kevin went 1-4 with a walk, he is hitting .305.

**Dustin Richardson- Threw a scoreless 9Th inning to end the game, he has a 0.00 ERA.

**Shin-Soo Choo- Choo finished the night 2-4 with a walk, he hit his 20Th Home Run of the season, drove in 3 runs, giving him 86 RBIs and is hitting .300. He has now become the first Asian-born player to have 20 or more Home Runs and 20 or more steals. A very good season for Choo.

**Asdrubal Cabrera- Asdrubal went 2-4 at the plate with a walk and is now hitting .308.

**Michael Brantley- Michael went 2-5 and drove in his 10Th RBI of the season. Michael is hitting .306.

**Luis Valbuena- Luis went 2-4 at the plate, he is hitting .251.

**Mike Gosling- Did very well, throwing 4 innings, giving up 1 run (1 earned), he walked 2, struck out 1 and now has a 5.04 ERA.

1/2 Baseball, 1/2 Goofball:

**Josh Beckett- He started off horrible, giving up 4 runs in the first 2 innings, but after his offense gave him some runs, he settled down and threw 3 shutout innings to finish the season. He threw 5 innings, giving up 4 runs (4 earned), he walked 3, struck out 5 and won his 17Th win with a 3.86 ERA.

**Paul Byrd- Paul came in and faced his former team, he did okay, 3 innings, giving up 2 runs (2 earned), he didn't walk anyone and struck out 1. Byrd has a 5.82 ERA.

Goofballs:

**Aaron Laffey- He was just awful, he threw 2 innings, giving up 8 runs (8 earned), he walked 2, struck out 4 and finishes the season with 9 losses and a 4.44 ERA.

**Jensen Lewis- Came in and gave up 2 more runs (2 earned) in 2 innings, he walked 2, struck out 1 and now has a 4.61 ERA.

Indians record after 161 games in 2009: 65-96
Indians record after 161 games in 2008: 81-80
Indians record in one run games in 2009: 19-20
Indians Quality Starts in 2009: 71

On Deck:

Wow, one more game to go, I really don't have much else to say other than I hate this situation, but what can you do? Game starts at 1:35 PM on Sunday afternoon, airing on STO and WKYC TV-3 and Indians On Deck at 1:00 PM. Tomo Ohka (1-4, 5.45) will take on Clay Buchholz (7-4, 3.74). The game will air on WMMS 100.7-FM let's go Tribe and take the final win.

0 comments:

Loading...