Red Sox 07 Game 111
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| J. Beckett | 13-5, 3.41 | M. Batista | 11-7, 4.23 | ||||
| Red Sox | 67-43 | Mariners | 60-48 | ||||
Sunday, August 5 Safeco Field ✠ 4.05 PM ET.American League
| East | W | L | GB | L 10 | 1 R W | 1 R L | X W | X L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 67 | 43 | - | 6-4 | 17 | 16 | 68 | 42 |
| New York | 60 | 50 | 7.0 | 6-4 | 9 | 15 | 68 | 42 |
| Toronto | 55 | 54 | 11.5 | 6-4 | 19 | 18 | 58 | 51 |
| Baltimore | 51 | 58 | 15.5 | 6-4 | 9 | 22 | 55 | 54 |
| Tampa | 42 | 67 | 24.5 | 4-6 | 13 | 12 | 41 | 68 |
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From MLB.Com Scouting Report
Red Sox: Beckett was efficient, throwing 76 of his 110 pitches for strikes over eight innings, but far too hittable against Erik Bedard and the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night in Boston. He allowed five runs, all earned, on nine hits and two walks, losing back-to-back starts for the first time this season.
Mariners: Batista was lights out against the Angels in his last start, shutting them out for seven innings while allowing just four hits and striking out two. He has compiled 10 quality starts in his last 14 outings. Batista has thrown at least six innings in 15 of 21 starts this season and has won in seven of his last 13 starts. A win would give him 12 for the season, which would be a new career-high.
As usual all statistics were found at the day by day database at Baseball Musings and this year at Baseball Reference.
Sox Batting vs Batista
| Player | AB | H | 2b | 3b | HR's | RBI | BB's | K's | BA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D. Pedroia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| K. Youkilis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| D. Ortiz | 16 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | .375 |
| M. Ramirez | 20 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | .400 |
| J. D. Drew | 23 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | .261 |
| M. Lowell | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | .250 |
| J. Varitek | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | .333 |
| C. Crisp | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| J. Lugo | 19 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | .211 |
| Totals | 109 | 32 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 15 | 17 | .294 |
109 at bats vs this guy and the Sox starters have 15 extra base hits. Wow. What is even better, is that with this being a day game after a night game, Mirabelli might be playing. Doug is four for eleven with a home run vs Miguel.
Cora also has success against Batista, if you slid him in for Lugo his 9 for 32 with two doubles along with Mirabelli's success would really lift this teams average against Batista. The team would be 37 for 121 with 11 doubles, 6 HR's, 12 BB's and 15 K's making that a .306 BA. Not bad, not bad at all.
Pitching Comparisions
| Pitcher | GS | W | L | Sho | IP | H | ER | HR | BB | K | ERA | WHIP | IP/GS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beckett | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 20 2/3 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 3.92 | .97 | 6.89 |
| Batista | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 47 2/3 | 64 | 35 | 4 | 29 | 30 | 6.61 | 1.95 | 5.43 |
Josh has faced the Mariners once each of the last three seasons (including this one). This will be the first time he has faced them twice in a season in his career. His numbers would be even better except for his first start when he was a Marlin and he lasted 6.2 innings giving up 10 hits and 7 earned runs. Both of his starts as a Red Sox came at Fenway on 4/16/2006 and 4/10/2007. He went seven innings both outings and gave up one earned run in each of those starts. That is outstanding!
Batista has appeared in sixteen games vs the Sox. As a starter he has went 38 innings in seven starts with a 6.63 ERA. His main trouble has been walks as he has walked 25 batters while only striking out 24. He made one quality start back in 2004. To say that the Sox seem to have his number would be an understatement. Oh, yeah, his record in seven starts is 2 and 3. Look for the bats to come out swinging vs Miguel. Can the Sox make it two in a row at Safeco? I say you betcha!
♊ - When all else fails, get a bigger hammer!
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