July 4, 2009 Red Sox 8, Mariners 1

The Sox bring out the fireworks on the 4th and rip out four homeruns, including two for Jeff Bailey, and have no trouble dispatching the Mariners. A 3-run shot for Dustin Pedroia and a solo homer for Rocco Baldelli add to the carnage. Brad Penny gets his second great start in a row and the easy win. But boy, will the Sox be sad to see Bailey go. He had been absolutely ripping the ball. In only 78 at bats, he has 6 doubles, 4 triples, and 6 homeruns with 22 RBI to add to a .321 batting average and hitting for the cycle in a game. Too bad he will be gone for the season soon. There is now another number in triple digits for the Sox, and not a good one. Mariners leadoff batter Ichiro Suzuki led off the game and then stole second. That stolen base was the 100th allowed by the Red Sox this season in 80 games, and the 71st off of Varitek. After a lot of curious research, the record for most steals off of a catcher in one season appears to be 155, off of Mike Piazza in 1996. For steal sttempt against one catcher in a season (Varitek has 15 CS to add to the 71 steals for 86 so far), the record appears to be 198 off of Terry Kennedy of the Padres in 1983. Kennedy that year had 135 SB and 63 CS against him. The 226 attempts against the 1983 Padres team as a whole would I guess appear to be the record for one season, or at least the modern record anyway. I still can't find out the most steals against a team in a season though. With the Sox at 100 steals and 20 caught against them, that will give then 120 so far. With the season about half over, the pace puts the Sox to roughly the 240 mark and 200 stolen bases against them. That would have to be damn close to a record for steals against, and would break the steal attempts record.

Strat-O-Matic Report

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BOXSCORE: 2009 Seattle Mariners At 2009 Boston Red Sox               7/4/2009
 
  Mariners           AB  R  H RBI AVG     Red Sox            AB  R  H RBI AVG
  I.Suzuki RF         4  1  1  0 .283     J.Drew RF           4  1  3  0 .277  
  R.Branyan 1B        4  0  0  0 .270     D.Pedroia 2B        5  1  2  3 .233  
  J.Lopez 2B          4  0  1  0 .219     K.Youkilis 3B       5  0  0  0 .316  
  K.Griffey Jr DH     4  0  1  1 .224     J.Bay LF            4  0  0  0 .259  
  F.Gutierrez CF      4  0  0  0 .266     R.Baldelli DH       3  1  2  1 .179  
  R.Langerhans LF     4  0  0  0 .250     J.Varitek C         4  0  0  0 .222  
  K.Johjima C         3  0  0  0 .262     J.Ellsbury CF       4  2  2  0 .333  
  C.Woodward 3B       2  0  1  0 .167     J.Bailey 1B         4  2  3  3 .321  
  R.Cedeno SS         2  0  0  0 .180     J.Lugo SS           3  1  1  1 .224  
                     -- -- -- ---                            -- -- -- ---      
         Totals      31  1  4  1                 Totals      36  8 13  8
 
 
Mariners........ 1 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 0  -  1  4  0
Red Sox......... 0 1 0  0 4 1  0 2    -  8 13  0
 
Mariners (37-43)         IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA  SCORESHEET
G.Olson LOSS(0-6)         4       4   3   3   3   3   2  70   7.98  A1 B9
S.Kelley                  1 2/3   5   3   3   0   1   1  34   3.86  C1 D1
J.Vargas                  1 1/3   3   2   2   0   1   1  27   4.61  D2 D8
S.White                   1       1   0   0   0   0   0  10   3.10  D9
Totals                    8      13   8   8   3   5   4
 
Red Sox (46-34)          IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA  SCORESHEET
B.Penny WIN(7-6)          7       4   1   1   2   7   0 105   5.17  A1 C9
M.Delcarmen               2       0   0   0   0   1   0  22   7.67  D1
Totals                    9       4   1   1   2   8   0
 
ATTENDANCE- 38,376 DATE- Saturday, July 4th 2009 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good
UMPIRES- Paul Nauert, Tom Hallion, Phil Cuzzi, Angel Campos
T- 2:24
LEFT ON BASE- Mariners: 5  Red Sox: 7
DOUBLE PLAYS- Mariners: 1  Red Sox: 0
DOUBLES- J.Lopez(22nd), J.Ellsbury(12th)
TRIPLES- R.Baldelli(1st), J.Bailey(4th)
HOME RUNS- D.Pedroia(11th), R.Baldelli(3rd), J.Bailey-2(6th)
STOLEN BASES- I.Suzuki(12th)
WALKS- C.Woodward, R.Cedeno, J.Drew, R.Baldelli, J.Lugo
STRIKE OUTS- I.Suzuki, R.Branyan, K.Griffey Jr-2, F.Gutierrez, R.Langerhans,
             C.Woodward, R.Cedeno, J.Bay-3, R.Baldelli, J.Ellsbury
GIDP- K.Youkilis
PASSED BALLS- K.Johjima
WEB GEMS- Bot 8th: Franklin Gutierrez robbed Kevin Youkilis of an extra base hit.
 
First baseman Jeff Bailey slammed 2 homeruns and had 3 RBI as the Boston Red
Sox defeated the Seattle Mariners by the score of 8 to 1 at Fenway Park.
 
The home town fans were very appreciative of the fine hitting performance
provided by Bailey.  He tripled in the 2nd inning, cracked a solo homerun in
the 5th inning and cracked a two-run shot in the 8th inning.  Boston had 13
hits for the game and Seattle had 4.  
 
The victory was credited to Brad Penny(7-6) who went 7 innings, allowing 1
run. Garrett Olson(0-6) was given the loss.  He surrendered 3 runs and 4 hits
in 4 innings.

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