Why is Ohman facing two righties and a switch hitter?

Alexei is a badass with the glove.

Nice, Alexei!

f*** youuuuuuuuuuu -- I'm coming after you if that happens

Your shoulder better not fall apart if you're making $16,000,000 a year.

I figured it out: we're calling up De Aza to manage and releasing Ozzie

OHMAN

Hey Cabrera didn't homer

Haha, we'll take it! Nice job by Ohman.

I didn't realize he faced Boesch to lead the inning off. But still, you don't let Ohman face Cabrera...

I actually joked to myself that maybe we were trading Ozzie with Juan Pierre to the Marlins.

This is just being silly.

Ha....wow....


Anyways, nice job for Will. He's going to have a bigger role for this team moving forward....maybe, probably.

I gots news for you brotha, he was healthy when he signed that contract and pitched like a $16M/yr pitcher. s*** happens, he got hurt. He's actually doing pretty damn well if you consider where he was a year ago.

Alexei is a stud.

I wish AJ would just go up there and try and foul 10 pitches to help get Verlander out because I think the Sox can get 1 from the Tigers pen.

It was almost like we are trying to lose this game putting Ohman out there, but he did a nice job. Do you really think management wants to give up and blow things up and is looking for a reason to do so?

Yay, my U-verse is out!

Agreed, and we have comparably priced players without injuries who are performing worse than him. The issue is our manager not managing his players, which is HIS job. If JP can only go five we need to game plan around that.

This would be a shocking home run by Rios.

It was tongue in cheek.

Regardless, he's receiving millions of dollars from us every year, yet in two years with us he's gone 14-10 with a 4.46 ERA. I don't care what his excuse is and I don't care if he's injured: that is abject failure.

AJ really does have unreal hand eye coordination.

I think Rios problem is crappy walk up music.

I think that is an underrated part of what makes a good hitter.

There's the giant hole

Hit and run time...don't get picked off Rios! Nice hit though buddy

Teahen has really peculiar walk up music, see a trend.

Hawk almost got excited

Dammit, just missed it again.

Jeez, I thought that was long gone off the bat. Teahen needs steroids immediately

A 5.26 ERA qualifies as "pretty damn well"?

Time for a double in the gap Gordon.

Guess everyone was thinking that Rios might as well try and steal 2b.

That's teahens power alley. He us just a hair off the last two abs

How many runs would we knock off if the manager could see what 7 year olds watching the game can see?

that was your pitch to hit, gordon

Beckham couldn't have asked for a better pitch to hit than the 1-0

I obviously think Ozzie sucks as much as anyone. But that doesn't excuse Peavy being an uber expensive five inning pitcher.

Does Beckham have any hits after the 6th inning this season?

we've got to start winning some of these close ones against the division

I guess Ohmans got this

VMart typically destroys us in these situations.

Thornton's either injured or getting traded it seems

20-96 with 1 HR and 9 RBIs in the 7th-9th.

probably 1/2 of his contract has been paid by insurance since we acquired him, fwiw.

you mean the guy warming in the pen?

Whoa he's warming.

I guess we felt better having Ohman just mow thru the lineup.

Well theres Thornton, so I guess nothing is happening, this is just how Ozzie rolls.

haha, this is so true -- it is especially apparent in person -- the ball just DIES about 25 feet from the outfield wall

Planning for the game to go 14 isn't really the worst ozzie move of the night.

Haha, brilliant job Ozzie

Ohman's been good but that's a killer. Make him hit.