The Boston Red Sox have given Freeway Ricky Porcello a $82.5 million extension.
Readers know I’m a huge Freeway Ricky fan. I was sad to see him go and I was worried about how he would fit in with the Red Sox. There are still a few players left that witnessed a very young Freeway Ricky beat Youk into a conniption.
Apparently my worries were unfounded.
Bravo Freeway Ricky!
for Yoenis Cespedes.
I don’t like it. Cespedes had a .301 OBP. And what is the rotation now?
Another horrible trade from DD, the Genius.
“Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man can ever come to perfection.” -Red Smith
Freeway Ricky just can’t get that 16th win. While he hasn’t been smokin’ balls, other than the Giants game, he’s pitched well enough win.
Yesterday, he pitched 6.2 and gave up two runs on seven hits. The problem was the offense could manage only two hits off of Big Game James Shields and nothing off of the the Royals pen.
Normally, 2 out 3 is good, but in the middle of this race, with this Tigers team, I’m not so sure.
As Nebraska says, “we shall see.”
Horrible. Freeway Ricky was a nightmare. He started off bad and got worse. I’m never an apologist for the offense but they never had a chance. The defense was no help but this was the worst I’ve seen Ricky pitch in a long time. There were some hits off of good pitches but he still got hit hard.
A contending team just cannot have this kind of inconsistency throughout the lineup. The offense is very streaky and the starting pitching has become the same way. The Tigers have the last three Cy Young winners and they can’t count on any of them every fifth day.
I’m pissed and I’m beginning to hate them again.
They call him Freeway Ricky and he was smokin balls tonight.
Well, actually, I’m the only one that calls him Freeway Ricky but he did smoke balls tonight. Porcello threw the fourth complete game of his career and his third complete game shutout this season. He allowed only three base runners and at one point retired 20 straight. The most impressive stat, however, is that Freeway Ricky needed only 104 pitches to get the job done.
On the offensive side, Victor drove in five of the six Tigers runs, four on a grand slam in the seventh. He looked terrible yesterday but Vmart looked good tonight.
Ok, Miggy is hurt and he has almost no power. That’s fine. I don’t expect him to find his power this year and perhaps he’ll never have the kind of power we saw from him in the past. But the thing that was driving me crazy about him was the strike outs and lack of walks. It looks like he’s figured the walk part out. There is a lot to be said for getting on base.
Finally, this was the best I’ve seen the bullpen pitch since Ricky’s last complete game. If they keep it up the biggest hole in the SS Tigers has been plugged.
One more thing, up yours Nathan you shit bird!
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Freeway Ricky was bad.
The offense was bad.
The Tigers are now 1.5 games behind the Royals
They only good thing from this game is that Miggy had two doubles and a walk.
I just hope they don’t get swept. I thought today was a must win game. I don’t like their chances tomorrow or Sunday.
One more thing, up yours Nathan you shit bird!
“God I love baseball.” -Roy Hobbs | The Natural
Put this one on BA. If he doesn’t know this team by now, he’ll never know them.
The Tigers only strength is starting pitching. Their offense is horrible. Their bullpen is an abomination.
Joe Nathan is horrible. Joba is returning to the guy that the Yankees gave up on. Soria, all though he was good today, has not been good in a Tigers uniform.
That being said, let the starters win or lose. Max had only thrown 106 pitches. Send him out for the ninth inning. Add this game to the game in Arizona, when he pulled Freeway Ricky in the eighth for a pinch hitter, and Ausmus is directly responsible of two loses in the last three weeks.
This team isn’t going anywhere.
“God I love baseball.” -Roy Hobbs | The Natural
The offense is so miserable that it I can’t write about Ricky’s start.
This team doesn’t deserve to make the playoffs. I’m still sticking to the post I made right before the Price acquisition, this team needs to be blown up, not just tweaked. We’ve had to sit through the same shit for the last 3-4 years. The offense scores 10 runs one game than hibernates for two weeks.
BA should have left Miggy on the bench. Miggy contributed a very disappointing at-bat. The same is true with Victor when he bounced into an inning ending double play
They make me sick. The whole lot of them.
“God I love baseball.” -Roy Hobbs | The Natural
Somehow, the numbers say the Tigers have the best offense in baseball. This defies logic.
The Tigers could manage only one un-earned run tonight, same as Monday. Even in the top of the eighth, when Chase Headley tried to give them a run, the offense refused to take it.
I’m disgusted. Like I’ve said a hundred times, you can’t pitch well enough to win with an offense so inept.
The Tigers are hard to watch right now.
Good luck to Freeway Ricky tomorrow. I hope he’s not expecting any run support.
“God I love baseball.” -Roy Hobbs | The Natural
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There was a lot to like about this game and series.
Keep in mind, this series was a small sample, against a bad, depleted team but there really wasn’t much to complain about all weekend. I hope they can keep it up.
“God I love baseball.” -Roy Hobbs | The Natural
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