Domination. Why?

I also thought Rivera had a chance on that ball. Becks goes tonight in the sweep game!

Red Sox-Angels Livetweeting Debriefing

My little livetweeting experiment was fun. Monitoring the #redsox search feed while I watched the game allowed me to interact with others as they were watching and tweeting (several from the actual game). It would be a blast to rig up with a few friends to talk about the game while it happens. A few favorites came out of this afternoon's affair.

Here's some ticket hawking from the game via Twitter:

@GBLPR: #redsox n e 1 need tix for tomorrow game? half price. text 7143968080 or come to sec 108 x 14

The Fox broadcast crew was making a big deal about their new Twitter feed - @MLBONFOX. In one segment they had sideline reporter Chris Rose on camera talking while he was struggling to finish a tweet on his BlackBerry:

@MLBONFOX: Chris Rose: It's amazing how big Red Sox nation is...half the ballpark must be Boston fans.

Damn straight, Rose. Every stadium is home field for RSN.

And, since I was now following Fox's feed, I got this, um, interesting tweet from Joe Buck, who was covering the STL game with McCarver:

@MLBONFOX: Joe Buck: Cold in the booth in STL. Tim and I are bundled up. And snuggling. Hard to type. I think hypothermia is starting to set in!

Disturbing imagery, to say the least.

I'll leave you with these words from the immortal Kenny Albert: "We've been tweeting."

G5: Red Sox @ Angels - Penny vs. Saunders

The Sox take the field in 10 minutes to face the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for the 2nd game in the series, and the second in six on this West Coast stint.

Sox offseason pickup Penny goes up against Saunders. The Sox are coming off an iffy outing from Wakefield last night (typical Wake start - spots of brilliance but he started getting hit hard) and emotions are likely still running high in the aftermath of Adenhart's pregame memorial ceremony.

In the interest of poor man's Web 2.0 social media sports journalism, I will be live-tweeting this game. If such things interest you, you can follow me: @mrhe25. Or you can also check the twitter feed on the sidebar. If you're also watching the game and want to join in the gametime chatter, tweet it up!

We need a decent outing from Penny and the bats need to come alive. Glad they're on the Best Coast and not playing at Fenway in this grim, cold, rainy, crappy weather. (Actually they wouldn't even be playing because of the weather. So that's even worse.)

Go Sox!

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Postgame wrap: Sox win an absolute nailbiter. Huge heroics from Bay with a 2-run HR and solo shot. Lowell also jacked a 2-run HR to tie it up early. Pap had trouble in the 9th: up 5-3, he gave up a solo shot to Hunter to make it 5-4. Morales then got a double. Pap got Rivera to ground out and then walked two more to pack the bags. 1 out with Kendrick up. After a fierce at-bat, Kendrick lined out to Drew. Pap got him in a 0-2 hole, then Kendrick fouled off 7 straight before he lined out. He saw 10 pitches. Pap didn't have his best stuff - his location was off on his heat, and he was most effective with his offspeed stuff. What a way to end the game. Penny was decent in his first start. Now the Sox are 2-3 on the season, hoping to get to .500 and win the series against LAAoA tomorrow.

3 down, 159 to go.

(Photo from Boston.com)

I feel you, Youk. I really thought you were gonna pull it off: bottom of the ninth with two outs; Tek had just soloed to trim the Rays' lead to a mere run; Papi had worked the walk and it was up to you and your Hellenic/Ashkenazi ways to give us a win in the tiebreaker today.

But it was not to be.

Ah, well. Off to the Best Coast to do battle with the LAAoA. Late game tomorrow night on Easy Coast time.

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A note here about Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart, who was killed in a traffic accident today after his first start. My best to his family. What an awful thing.