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Ray whats you thought on the stat about
Anderson ( 8-17 5.33 ERA )is coming off a strong 7 inning 1 run game, has beat Mets and Rusch this year going 8 innings giving up 0 ER. Rusch ( 8-10 4.58 ERA ) is 0-2 career vs Pittsburgh and has lost his L5 home starts.
Anderson ( 8-17 5.33 ERA )is coming off a strong 7 inning 1 run game, has beat Mets and Rusch this year going 8 innings giving up 0 ER. Rusch ( 8-10 4.58 ERA ) is 0-2 career vs Pittsburgh and has lost his L5 home starts.
AGREE with you valuist. love to watch fossum (the possum) pitch. throws some nasty pitches and the red flops (i mean red sox) just play good there!!
good luck!
Actually, I was referring to the Mets/Pirates total.
Rusch and Anderson went head to head once in 2000 and it turned out to be a 2-0 game.
Rusch and Anderson went head to head once in 2000 and it turned out to be a 2-0 game.
sorry valuist, but i do agree on the UNDER in that game. cone is now pitching instead of fossum, which scares me, but unlike IE stated, i would bet Boston before Tampa Bay!! go red flops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey TJBell... I live in Tampa and I will be the first to admit that the Rays are not a very good team overall but for some reason they play really well at the end of the year and Sturtz has been a solid pitcher as of late... I've noticed a few cappers keying on Tampa the last couple weeks and it has paid off... Just thought I would throw in my two cents for what its worth.... The best of luck in whatever you play...
Gonna go with....
Mets -180
Devil Rays +101 100/210
GLTA AM2kidz
Gonna go with....
Mets -180
Devil Rays +101 100/210
GLTA AM2kidz
Becareful betting the sox, not that TB is any good.
He homers, them rips some mates
By Bob Hohler, Globe Staff, 10/1/2001
DETROIT - He stopped short of naming names. But Trot Nixon held back little else yesterday as he blasted a number of his Red Sox teammates who have all but quit on the club in its September swoon.
In yet another sign of his emergence as a forceful leader on a team desperately needing one, Nixon lashed out at the apparent lack of dedication he and his fellow ''dirt dogs'' have seen from teammates who have responded to the September crisis more like sleeping dogs.
''If you don't want to play or you want to shut yourself down, then go home, give your money back, and don't show up at spring training [next year] because the fact of the matter is, it's a 162-game schedule,'' Nixon said after he hit a two-run homer to help propel the Sox past the Tigers, 8-5, before 29,229 at Comerica Park. ''If you're not hurt and you're shutting yourself down, you're embarrassing yourself.''
Six Sox regulars are home with season-ending injuries: Pedro Martinez, Nomar Garciaparra, Carl Everett, Jason Varitek, Rod Beck, and Mike Lansing. Troy O'Leary stayed in Boston with stitches in his cheek after he was spiked. And several players who remain with the team have been sidelined or have seen little action because of various maladies.
Manny Ramirez has missed three of the last four games, one because he needed a medical procedure to treat an undisclosed health problem and the last two with a sore left hand after he was hit by a pitch. Dante Bichette has been hampered by tendinitis in his right elbow. Rolando Arrojo has shoulder discomfort.
In fact, nearly every player is nagged by aches and pains after playing daily since February. And Nixon knows some of them are not giving their all.
''Some guys are hurt, but some guys aren't,'' he said when asked if he saw specific players failing to contribute. ''It's been an eye-opener for a lot of people. I saw a little bit of this last year, and I'm seeing it this year. It's not good for the ballplayer to do something like that. It just hurts in the long run.''
Nixon raised questions earlier in the season about Everett's commitment to rehabbing his injured knee. But while he refrained from identifying players, Nixon offered some backhanded advice.
The Sox posted a pathetic 6-15 record in September, managing to stay at .500 for the season only by pulling out a win yesterday. They have seven games to go.
''You can complain to the players union if you want to lower the amount of games,'' Nixon said. ''But either way, it's baseball. It's supposed to be fun. It isn't fun when you're losing, but it's what you dreamed of doing your entire life when you were a kid, so why would you consider shutting yourself down?''
He indicated he would not bother confronting the players he believes have given up. ''I don't have to say anything because whoever might go that way, that's their decision,'' he said. ''I can voice my opinion. I'm not dogging anybody. It's just the way I feel, and there are a lot of guys in here who feel the same way.
''There are plenty of guys in the minor leagues who would love to have the opportunity to play a 162-game schedule.''
Manager Joe Kerrigan praised Nixon moments earlier as the epitome of a professional. Nixon is hitting .279 with 25 homers and 82 RBIs. He has sat out only 13 games, almost all because the manager wanted to rest him.
''He's a bona fide, impact, major league everyday player,'' Kerrigan said. ''He really shines through. It doesn't matter if you're 30 games over or 30 games under, he's going to play the game hard.''
Nixon scored his team-leading 95th run in the first inning when he reached on an error, stole second, and came around on Morgan Burkhart's two-out single.
The Sox made it 4-0 in the third on another two-out hit, Scott Hatteberg's bases-loaded double. Hatteberg drove in Jose Offerman, who had doubled, Darren Lewis (single), and Brian Daubach (intentional walk).
And Nixon gave the Sox two more in the fifth, when he crushed a pitch from Jose Lima deep to right, knocking in Lewis.
''He gets prepared as well as any hitter that we have,'' Kerrigan said of Nixon. ''He's not good all of a sudden by accident. It's a lot of hard work. He does what a ballplayer's supposed to do.''
''It just boils down to having pride in yourself,'' Nixon said. ''I don't care whether you're playing football or baseball or working 9 to 5. You can't always be 100 percent, but you keep going because that's where pride comes in.''
Good luck to all
He homers, them rips some mates
By Bob Hohler, Globe Staff, 10/1/2001
DETROIT - He stopped short of naming names. But Trot Nixon held back little else yesterday as he blasted a number of his Red Sox teammates who have all but quit on the club in its September swoon.
In yet another sign of his emergence as a forceful leader on a team desperately needing one, Nixon lashed out at the apparent lack of dedication he and his fellow ''dirt dogs'' have seen from teammates who have responded to the September crisis more like sleeping dogs.
''If you don't want to play or you want to shut yourself down, then go home, give your money back, and don't show up at spring training [next year] because the fact of the matter is, it's a 162-game schedule,'' Nixon said after he hit a two-run homer to help propel the Sox past the Tigers, 8-5, before 29,229 at Comerica Park. ''If you're not hurt and you're shutting yourself down, you're embarrassing yourself.''
Six Sox regulars are home with season-ending injuries: Pedro Martinez, Nomar Garciaparra, Carl Everett, Jason Varitek, Rod Beck, and Mike Lansing. Troy O'Leary stayed in Boston with stitches in his cheek after he was spiked. And several players who remain with the team have been sidelined or have seen little action because of various maladies.
Manny Ramirez has missed three of the last four games, one because he needed a medical procedure to treat an undisclosed health problem and the last two with a sore left hand after he was hit by a pitch. Dante Bichette has been hampered by tendinitis in his right elbow. Rolando Arrojo has shoulder discomfort.
In fact, nearly every player is nagged by aches and pains after playing daily since February. And Nixon knows some of them are not giving their all.
''Some guys are hurt, but some guys aren't,'' he said when asked if he saw specific players failing to contribute. ''It's been an eye-opener for a lot of people. I saw a little bit of this last year, and I'm seeing it this year. It's not good for the ballplayer to do something like that. It just hurts in the long run.''
Nixon raised questions earlier in the season about Everett's commitment to rehabbing his injured knee. But while he refrained from identifying players, Nixon offered some backhanded advice.
The Sox posted a pathetic 6-15 record in September, managing to stay at .500 for the season only by pulling out a win yesterday. They have seven games to go.
''You can complain to the players union if you want to lower the amount of games,'' Nixon said. ''But either way, it's baseball. It's supposed to be fun. It isn't fun when you're losing, but it's what you dreamed of doing your entire life when you were a kid, so why would you consider shutting yourself down?''
He indicated he would not bother confronting the players he believes have given up. ''I don't have to say anything because whoever might go that way, that's their decision,'' he said. ''I can voice my opinion. I'm not dogging anybody. It's just the way I feel, and there are a lot of guys in here who feel the same way.
''There are plenty of guys in the minor leagues who would love to have the opportunity to play a 162-game schedule.''
Manager Joe Kerrigan praised Nixon moments earlier as the epitome of a professional. Nixon is hitting .279 with 25 homers and 82 RBIs. He has sat out only 13 games, almost all because the manager wanted to rest him.
''He's a bona fide, impact, major league everyday player,'' Kerrigan said. ''He really shines through. It doesn't matter if you're 30 games over or 30 games under, he's going to play the game hard.''
Nixon scored his team-leading 95th run in the first inning when he reached on an error, stole second, and came around on Morgan Burkhart's two-out single.
The Sox made it 4-0 in the third on another two-out hit, Scott Hatteberg's bases-loaded double. Hatteberg drove in Jose Offerman, who had doubled, Darren Lewis (single), and Brian Daubach (intentional walk).
And Nixon gave the Sox two more in the fifth, when he crushed a pitch from Jose Lima deep to right, knocking in Lewis.
''He gets prepared as well as any hitter that we have,'' Kerrigan said of Nixon. ''He's not good all of a sudden by accident. It's a lot of hard work. He does what a ballplayer's supposed to do.''
''It just boils down to having pride in yourself,'' Nixon said. ''I don't care whether you're playing football or baseball or working 9 to 5. You can't always be 100 percent, but you keep going because that's where pride comes in.''
Good luck to all
