Playoffs

North Dakota vs. New Orleans (March 8, 2009)

Background

Heavily favored to win the league championship, North Dakota realizes on opening night it has made a fatal mistake by inexplicably choosing a non-homer park for its lineup of bashers. From TWITS Notes: "You want the fucking details? Fine. The computer fucking screwed me by making me choose the wrong park. I missed FOUR ballpark homers in game 1 (Randy had none)". Despite that fatal mistake, the team is in the thick of the pennant race all season and ends up in a flat-footed tie for 2^nd with New Orleans.

Harold, picked for 7^th, starts off strong by sweepin Jeff to open the season, and at the holiday break is only a game out of first at 16-12 in the thick of a 5-team race. He goes 12-4 in January (winning series against both Jed and Tom) to take over first place and turn the season into a 3-team race. By that time, a .500 February (6-6) is good enough to claim a coveted playoff spot, tying North Dakota for 2nd.

The teams split the season series and thus a coin flip (won by North Dakota) determines the home field advantage.

Game 1: Cy Young Winner Jake Peavy is dominant, as ND breaks open a tight 1-1 game with 5 runs in the 6^th and 7^th.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
New Orleans	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0		1	5	1
North Dakota	0	1	0	0	0	2	3	0	1		6	9	0

WP: Peavy (1-0)

LP: Carmona (0-1)

HR: Pujols

　

　

Game 2: Back to back doubles by Glaus and Bard off Lilly give ND the 2-0 lead they will never relinquish. Helton’s 8^th inning homer off Accardo makes it interesting, but ND hangs on to go up in the series 2 games to 0.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
New Orleans	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0		1	4	0
North Dakota	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	0		2	7	0

WP: Hill (1-0)

LP: Lilly (0-1)

SV: Bell (1)

HR: Helton

　

Game 3: The series shifts to New Orleans and Harold’s bats come alive with 3 runs on 4 hits in the first inning off Shields. ND’s Reynolds’ 2-run blast makes it a 3-2 game until the 8^th. Morneau, Wright, Helton, Posada, Sheffield, DeJesus and Cabrera start off the 8^th with hits for a 5-run inning. Wang, Capps, Beimel, Gardner and Garland shut down North Dakota.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
North Dakota	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		2	6	0
New Orleans	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	x		8	13	0

WP: Wang (1-0)

LP: J. Shields (0-1)

SV: Garland (1)

HR: ND: Reynolds (1) NO: Morneau (1)

Game 4: A shaky Peavy (8 walks in 3 2/3) helps New Orleans to pound on North Dakota mercilessly. Hudson (3-run homer), Markakis (4 hits, homer) and O Cabrera (3 hits) lead the charge as New Orleans easily ties up the series 2-2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
North Dakota	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1		7	12	1
New Orleans	1	0	0	7	0	5	3	0	x		16	15	0

WP: Carmona (1-1)

LP: Peavy (1-1)

HR: ND: Hamilton, Reynolds; NO: Markakis, Hudson

Game 5: The pivotal game. It’s 3-3 after 6 and both teams go into full-blown relief matchup mode. New Orleans uses 8 pitchers, North Dakota 6 as each team gets runners in scoring position in the 5^th and 7^th and can’t score. NO has the winning run on 3^rd in the bottom of the 9^th, but Isringhausen gets O.Cab and DeJesus. With 2 out and one on in the bottom of the 11^th, Helton hits a game-winning 2-run homer off Izzy.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11		R	H	E
North Dakota	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		3	9	0
New Orleans	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2		5	12	1

WP: Chamberlain (1-0)

LP: Isringhausen (0-1)

HR: NO: Helton

Game 6: North Dakota fully expects to tie the series and force a game 7. NO strikes first with a DeJesus sac off C. Young, but Reynolds answers with his third homer for ND to tie it 1-1. A combined 12 relievers later and it’s 1-1 going into the 9^th. Markakis singles off Accardo. He’s bunted to second and then a fielder’s choice moves him to 3^rd with 2 out. Hudson walks. Izzy comes in and walks Sheffield. C. Jones is up with the bases loaded, two out. He hits a bases-clearing triple and Harold is going to the World Series, stunning the pre-season favorites.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
North Dakota	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3		4	9	0
New Orleans	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0		1	4	0

WP: Beimel (1-0)

LP: Accardo (0-1)

SV: Rivera

HR: ND: Reynolds

"North Dakota was ripped into small pieces, crumpled into a small ball, stuffed into a water and salsa filled glass, then dumped outside into a pile of dog poop in anticipation of tonight's snow and ice."

Fugakyu vs. Constantinople (March 8, 2009)

Background: Jed, picked 2^nd in pre-season polls, starts out slowly at 6-6. But he goes 8-4 in December and at the break is sitting in second place at 14-10. A 6-6 start to the new year isn’t good enough for Jed, so he acquires Carlos Pena from Tom on 1/21. With Pena in the lineup, he wins 15 of his final 20, including 3 of 4 in a 2/8 showdown against North Dakota, to finish in first place overall and avoid the 2 other top teams, ND and NO, in the first round.

Tom was actually chosen third by the league in the preseason poll, but stumbles out of the gate, starting out 2-6 in November, and despite a 10-10 December, is looking up at the league in 7^th place at the break. A 5-7 start to the New Year is enough for the CN GM who finds himself 9 games out of first. He unloads Carlos Pena, then sweeps Robin in his very next series to find himself back in the thick of the ‘wild-card’ race, with 4 teams contending for the final playoff berth. A 6-6 February is good enough to clinch 4^th place outright, as all the other pretenders fall out of contention one by one.

Jed beat Tom 5 of 8 during the regular season and Tom is thinking it might have been useful to have Pena in his own lineup for the series.

Game 1: The first suicide squeeze of the series went bad and Victorino is thrown out at the plate. But Fugakyu did not need the run as Beckett and 3 relievers smother the CN offense, striking out 12.

　

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
CN Manatees	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	1
Fugakyu	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	4	8	0

W: Beckett (1)

L: Cain (1)

SV: Speier (1)

Errors: Loney (1)

HR (CN Manatees): A. Rod (1)

　

Game 2: Fugakyu goes up early on a Wilson double, but CN comes right back for 3 in the third as A. Rod hit his second homer of the game - this time a two run shot. Cust’s 2-run single ties the game. In the 10^th, A. Rod hit his second homer of the game to put CN up 1. The Fish tie it with an unearned run. Howard hits a 12^th inning homer for the win.

　

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	R	H	E
CN Manatees	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	6	9	1
Fugakyu	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	11	0

W: Bedard (1)

L: Webb (1)

Errors: Ross (1)

HR (CN Manatees): A. Rod 2 (2,3), Howard (1)

　

Game 3: The CN offense came out big with 10 runs in the first two innings and they needed all of them. The Puffer Fish never gave up and scored 8 runs including a grand slam from Cust for their first homer of the series. The tying run was on deck in the 9^th, and when A. Rod kicked Shoppach’s grounder for a two base error the CN fans were on the edge of their seats. Loney came through again as he took a 1Bx chance unassisted to end the game.

　

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Fugakyu	0	1	0	0	4	2	0	0	1	8	10	0
CN Manatees	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	11	1

W: Hudson (1)

L: Harang (1)

SV: Papelbon (1)

Errors: A. Rod (1)

HR (Fugakyu): Cust 1 (1 GS)

HR (CN Manatees): Loney 2 (1 GS,2), Varitek (1), Martin (1)

　

Game 4: The Fish went up 3-0 after Cain started slowly giving up 4 hits and 3 walks. CN came back with 4 runs against Beckett, but Beckett survived being tired when Kelly Johnson was thrown out at home. The Puffered ones came back in the 8^th to tie it on a Mauer single after a Varitek error. Jenks gives up a triple to Figgins and then Suzuki hit a sacrifice fly (CFx) to put the Fish up 1 and Soria came in and struck out 3 while giving up a walk and a double to make it interesting.

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Fugakyu	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	13	0
CN Manatees	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	8	1

W: Fuentes (1)

L: Jenks (1)

SV: Soria (1)

Errors: Varitek (1)

HR (CN Manatees): Ross (1)

　

Game 5: All tied at 2 games apiece, Game 5 starts tied at 1 until the computers crash while processing a Holliday HR split 1 to 11. Controversy ensues – Jed ends up rolling the thing and is credited with the homer.

CN's offense takes offence and goes on to score 4 in the bottom of the inning and 3 in the next inning and they just never looked back. 13 relief pitchers don’t help if your starters are on the bad end of the breaks. Bedard pitched 3 complete innings giving up 2 hits, a walk and 4 Ks.

　

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Fugakyu	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	7	0
CN Manatees	1	0	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	9	10	1

W: Correia (1)

L: Smoltz (1)

SV: Bedard (1)

Errors: Escobar (1)

HR (Fugakyu): Holliday (1)

HR (CN Manatees): Howard (2), Johnson (1), A. Rod (4)

　

Game 6: A reboot of the computers later saw CN take the series with a 7-0 victory behind Hudson and 2 relievers. Hudson scattered 3 singles through 7 and none of those advanced. The Manatees have a shot to win their 4^th World Series bid since adopting the playfully rotund mascot.

　

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
CN Manatees	1	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	7	11	0
Fugakyu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0

W: Hudson (2)

L: Harang (2)

HR (CN Manatees): A. Rod (5), Loney (3)

Constantinople wins series 4 games to 2

　

Overall, pitching was good for the Manatees with Bedard and Sabathia acting as relievers coming through with 12 innings and giving up only 1 earned run and striking out 17. Hudson won his two starts.

A-Rod was the offensive MVP, hitting .320/.346/.920 with 6 runs, 5 homers and 6 RBI. Loney was a close second, hitting .375/.400/.833 with 3 homers, 3B and 7 RBIs. CN out muscled the Puffer Fish 15 homers to 2 in the series.

　

World Series


New Orleans vs. Constantinople

(March 21, 2009)

Background:

It is an unlikely matchup – New Orleans, picked 7^th in the pre-season vs. Constantinople, a team that traded away some of its best players only to make the playoffs in the last week of the season.

It is the third post-season matchup between the two franchises. In 2001, New Orleans beat Constantinople 4 games to 1 to advance to the World Series (losing to North Dakota). Two seasons ago, Tom turned the tables, beating Harold in 5 games to advance to the World Series. During the regular season, Harold won 5 of 8 games vs. Tom.

Game 1: CN scratched out 3 runs against NO ace Fausto Carmona. The home team scratched back into it by putting together a triple from the speedy Adam Dunn and RBI double from Wright in the 6^th. CN’s defense collapsed as Escobar and Church gave up long singles and Loney kicked the ball as New Orleans roared back to tie the game at 3-3 after 8. Posada led off the 10^th with a walk-off homer for the first homer and win of the Series!

　

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
CN Manatees	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	12	1
New Orleans	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	1	4	9	1

W: Lidge (1)

L: Benoit (1)

Errors: Loney (1), Dunn (1)

HR (New Orleans): Posada (1)

　

Game 2: CN goes up 3-0 again and after 7 it is 3-3. Then with one man on and 1 out Mariano Rivera comes in to hold CN down. Howard hits a ball park homer (1-2) that is caught (and Harold breaths a sigh of relief that we are in his park), but CN then puts together a bunch of 2 out hits to go up 7-3. Harold does come back for 2 including a Posada triple, but can’t get the final clutch hit and looses.

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
CN Manatees	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	7	8	0
New Orleans	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	5	9	0

W: Billingsley (1)

L: Rivera (1)

SV: Jenks (1)

HR (CN Manatees): A. Rod (1)

　

Game 3: CN went up 4-0 in the first, chasing Ted Lilly and put on the lead-off man in every inning. But it is 4-4 after 3 innings and 7-7 after 8 and a half innings. A. Rod leads off the 9^th with his version of the patented Posada walk off homer. A. Rod bookends the game with a lead-off homer in the first and the game winner in the 9^th. Cody Ross had a homer, double and 5 RBIs in the game.

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New Orleans	0	1	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	7	10	0
CN Manatees	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1	8	17	0

W: Benoit (1)

L: Rivera (2)

HR (New Orleans): Helton (1), Jones (1), Wright (1), Rios (1)

HR (CN Manatees): A. Rod (2,3), C. Ross (1)

Game 4: Harold goes up 3-0, but CN claws back to 3-3 after 2. Harold goes up 4-3 after his half of the 3^rd and then CN answers with 2 runs of their own in the bottom of the third. Then Harold comes back in the 4^th to go up 7-5 and never looks back as they knot the series at 2 with an 11-7 win.

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
New Orleans	3	0	1	3	0	0	2	0	2	11	14	0
CN Manatees	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	7	11	1

W: Carmona (1)

L: Cain (1)

Error: Johnson

HR (New Orleans): Rios (2)

　

Game 5: The pivotal game saw Lilly (1-inning Game 3 starter) and 3 relievers take a 3-0 shutout into the 9^th against CN. Joba the unstoppable came out to put this one in the books. But CN greeted him with a single, walk and CF-x (Ross CN’s mutant) which goes for an RBI double rare play where the hidden ball trick gets the 1^st out. Howard then hits the 1^st homer of the year off Joba (ballpark – 4 off his own card) and ties the game at 3-3. But the hidden ball out is the difference between a tie and a 4-3 win.

The 10^th saw A.Rod hit a LF-x to the 4 Adam Dunn and he gets a single and a rare play, and Dunn throws behind him to get the 1^st out. A walk and long single later had Harold intentionally walk Ross to get to Howard. Howard flies out. The rare play again keeps the game going even longer as both teams use tired pitchers and face running out of innings. In the bottom of the 13 after Wright (3B 2) boots the lead off grounder from Johnson, a K , FC and long single gives CN 1^st and 3^rd with two outs. Loney and his big clutch rating hits a SSx and Harold breaths a sigh of relief as no error is showing and Cabrera is a 1. But wait, Loney is LH and Willits is the runner on 1^st (*18 runner) so the hold comes into play and a single results as Cabrera is reduced to a 2 and the ball dribbles into the outfield and CN wins 4-3 after 13 grueling innings.

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	R	H	E
New Orleans	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	15	1
CN Manatees	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	4	13	0

W: Benoit (2)

L: Garland (1)

Error: Dunn (2)

HR (New Orleans): Dunn (1), Cabrera (1)

HR (CN Manatees): Howard (1)

　

Game 6: Bedard starts for CN and he is toasted and between him and Billingsley Harold gets 9 runs in the 3^rd inning. Game 6 ends 10-2 and it is down to the last game with all hands on deck. Both pens are rested and have limited but sufficient innings. CN manager Tom Kinney would argue later that if I was going to lose Game 6, I needed a blowout to have the innings for Game 7. Harold felt Game 5 was the decider and does not think the blowout was significant.

　

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
CN Manatees	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	9	1
New Orleans	0	0	9	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	13	0

W: Wang (1)

L: Bedard (1)

Error: A. Rod (1)

HR (CN Manatees): Howard (2)

　

Game 7: CN goes up 2-0 after 1. A-Rod boots a lead off DeJesus grounder and before you can say "My name is Chipper, don’t call me Larry" it is 3-2, Harold, as 2 unearned runs put them up. A 2-out Loney double in the 5^th knots the game at 3 and it is extra innings before you know it.

The 11^th starts with Garland pitching as the last non tired New Orleans pitcher. A tired Lilly is warming up as the only other pitcher available and he is available only because of the ‘World Series starters can relieve in game 7’ rule and there are no players left on either bench to pinch hit. Church hits a lead off single and then Escobar doubles and Church is thrown out for the first out at home with Escobar taking 3^rd on the throw. Pence doubles in Escobar and Ellis follows with a double to give CN a 5-3 lead. Romero comes out with 1/3 of an inning left (Papelbon and Jenks are already used up and Hudson and Bedard are tired and only Correia and Benoit are left with innings and rest) and walks Kearns and then gets DeJesus to hit into a double play. Benoit comes in and retires Cabrera to save game 7 and give CN the series.

　

Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
CN Manatees	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	14	2
New Orleans	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	0

W: Romero (1)

L: Garland (2)

SV: Benoit (1)

Errors: Escobar (1), A. Rod (2), O Dog (1)

　

The CN bullpen again comes through as New Orleans hit 3 singles in the last 7 innings with no runners reaching third base.

This is only the 2nd SOMBILLA World Series ever with an extra-inning 7th game (the other was the famous FW Strawberry 11th inning walk off pinch-hit home run off the LH's Eichorn back in '87), but the only one with 3 extra inning affairs.

　

The MVP hitter was A. Rod, who hit .355, .457, .645 with 3 homers and 7 RBIs and 7 Rs.

THOUGHTS WHILE CONVERTING ALL MY BEATLES ALBUMS TO MP3’s

1. Dues. For the first time ever, I can actually report that nobody owes any money (having decided to finally write off Land, Tsuan and Andrew as ‘bad debt’).

2. Awards Voting - 5 points for 1st place, 3 for 2nd place, 1 for 3rd place. Since managers cannot vote for their own players, 7 votes would normally be a unanimous vote.

There were no votes for Matt this year.

At the draft, Tom questioned why A-Rod was left off the MVP ballot. I couldn’t come up with a rational explanation on the spur of the moment other than inadvertent oversight, so to defuse the situation I offered to have a runoff among A-Rod and the top vote getters after the draft.

As I assembled the run-off and looked at A-Rod’s SOMBILLA stats more closely, I realized that in fact, it was a conscious decision of mine to leave him off as his stats were simply not up to those of his teammates Howard, Pena and most of the other nominees on the ballot. Of course, the nominations are chosen by one person, me, so there can be room for dispute. I’m positive nobody with true MVP ability has ever been left off, but it’s possible, even probable, that where there’s a large ballot (13 here) the actual best 13 players may not be listed.

Anyway, The run-off had no impact. Harold's David Wright still won the MVP and Hamilton still came in 2nd.

One person refused to cast a 3rd place vote, while another refused ('abstained') to vote entirely.

3. Presentation of the Richman Cup by last year's champion, Randy, to this year's champion, Tom.

4. Rule change proposals

a. Elimination of any cutting of players for the draft!

Back in January, Tom first proposed entirely doing away with the cutting of players before the draft. Instead, cuts would be required a week after the draft.

There was much discussion about this. The second part of the question was around the effect of this change and the resulting structure of the draft as well as any waiver draft for teams to draft other teams’ cut players. While I felt they were separate discussions (that is, both doing away with the cut list before the draft and the resulting structure of the draft), most people felt they were sufficiently intertwined to merit an intertwined discussion of everything.

When the dust settled, the league decided three things:

1. To do away with the requirement to cut players before the draft by a vote of 5-3.
At first Robin abstained, then was in favor of the change. Randy provided the final vote in favor, but noted that he needed to see all of the details written up and reserved the right to change his mind.

2. All teams would get 12 draft picks, no matter what.
This passed by a vote of 7-1.

• So, regardless of any roster size or trades, you still get 12 picks. The point was brought up about the fact that toward the end of the draft, pickings can be slim. Could a team pass? Would you forfeit the pick or could you jump back in at any point later? The consensus was, that if a team passed on a pick, it could still pick up the pick at the end of the draft,.

3. Waiver draft in the same draft order as the regular draft of the players on the cut list.
This was decided by consensus. I don’t think people were as concerned about this, because frankly, as a practical matter, we’re talking about maybe 1-2 players per season that might be claimed off the cut list? Certainly in the entire history of the league no more than 2 players have ever been drafted from the cut list in one draft.

• exactly one week after the draft, all teams have to cut their roster down to 45 (Robin noted it would give her players an additional week before their season-ending injury).
• Then, the manager with the first pick in the draft has 24 hours to draft a player (if anyone) from this cut list, If so, they have to cut an additional player to keep their roster at 45. Then the 2^nd manager has 24 hours and so on until every manager has ‘passed’. At that point the waiver draft is over.

b. Each team decides on DH.

3. By-law clarifications.

3. Final clarification of that which will never occur.

d. Ballparks. I proposed amending the current floor for lefty-righty differentials to be 5 instead of 7. This proposal was deadlocked at 4-4, thus keeping the status quo of "7" as the floor.

5. Card burning The league voted to burn A-Rod. However, Tom refused to allow his extra (non-laminated league-issued) A-Rod to be burned and after much hand wringing, we moved on without a card burning for the first time in draft history.

Draft Notes
There was one trade made on draft day: Jed traded Dye, Hafner and Smoltz to Tom for Jason Giambi.

Retread report:

• The very first player drafted who used to be in the league was the third overall pick! Ryan Dempster was drafted by Jed & Clint back in 2001, but then was contracted out of a job in the great league contraction of 2002.
• Next, North Dakota drafted former Bay City reliever Balfour in the 2^nd round.
• ND then paid for cutting Mike Thornton whenTom picked him up at the end of the 2^nd round.
• Jeff surprised the league by redrafting Mike Mussina in the 4^th.
• Harold picked up former North Dakota farmhand Scott Baker in the 4^th
• RAT picked up former CN star and North Dakota farmhand Ron Belliard in the 8^th round
• RAT also snagged former Bay City reliever Willie Ohman in the 9^th
• David Ross (Arnie, Jed) was drafted by his third SOMBILLA team, New Orleans, in the 9^th.
• Robin drafted the just-cut-by-Jeff Joe Crede in the 10^th, the only plyaer drafted off the cut list.
• With the next pick, Brian Giles (cut by Jed and who also played for RAT) was drafted by Eric.
• Former ND farmhand Ramon Santiago was picked up by Tom in the 11^th.

Also, for the second year in a row, someone tried to draft a player off of North Dakota’s roster – Randy attempted to draft Adam Wainright, just as Jed tried to draft Edwin Encarnacion at last year’s draft.

We all shouted "Spooneybarger," and the ’09 draft was history.

HOW IS YOUR TEAM DOING?

Here is our first unscientific look ahead to the 2009 cards (due out in January).

Eric (12) – Crawford, Fielder, A. Gonzalez, Ibanez, A. Jones, Lincecum, Molina, Tejada, Utley, Verlander, Werth, Zimmerman

RAT (9) – Braun, Cordero, N. Cruz, Greinke, A. Hill, McCann, Nathan, Santana, J. Upton

Robin (9) – Beltran, Buehrle, Granderson, Halladay, Hawpe, Jeter, V. Martinez, F. Sanchez, Wakefield

Jed (8) – Beckett,. Figgins, Fuentes, F. Hernandez, Mauer, C. Pena, Suzuki, Victorino

Tom (8) – Bay, Billingsley, Cain, Howard, Hunter, Papelbon, Pence, Youkilis

Arnie (8) – Bell, Hamilton, Haren, Hoffman, J. Johnson, Pedroia, Pujols, H. Ramirez

Harold (6) – Bartlett, O. Hudson, Lilly, Morneau, Rivera, Wright

Jeff (5) – Broxton, Longoria, F. Rodriguez, Teixeira, M. Young