How did Adrian Beltre get away.

“I’m not a big fan of warnings because you take away the immediate retaliation of it,’’ Gonzalez said. “You know it’s going to happen. We've all got seven more years here. It might not happen the next series, but eventually it’s going to happen.’’

The Tigers and Red Sox meet again in a four-game series in Fenway Park on May 28 to 31.

Did Gonzalez think Coke was retaliating for Fielder getting hit by Albers the day before?

“There were two strikes,’’ he said. “[Albers] just yanked a fastball. It didn’t even cross my mind.

“I just think it’s a bad call on their end because now it’s putting Miggy’s and Prince’s careers at risk. You know it’s going to happen eventually.’’

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/red-sox/post/_/id/18008/agon-on-hbp-putting-miggy-prince-at-risk?

Yu Davrish Texas Rangers 12 Ichiro Suzuki Seattle Mariners 7

Darvish got lit up early in the game, but held on and seemed to settle down well enough. I would call it a B- MLB debut.

I'd give him a solid D. 5 earned runs in less than 6 innings pitched is very Lackey-ish. Just because Texas scored enough for him to get credited with the win doesn't give him any sort of pass on his effort. I don't think anyone in Texas will accept gatting a performance like that out of him every time out.

On a completely unrelated note, I was checking to see how some of the guys the Sox traded away over the winter were doing. Can't say I was surprised to see that Je DL owrie hasn't played yet this year for Houston because of a strained thumb. Kyle Weiland makes his first start tonight for Houston against Atlanta. Scutaro is hitting about the same as Aviles, but already has made 2 errors this year. Reddick is off to a decent start, but still has yet to draw a walk and has only had 3 3-ball counts in 19 ABs.

DiceK pitched 7 innings in his debut, and gave up 6 hits and 1 run for the win.

Just sayin' !

Against an equally anemic looking offensive team as Seattle is this year. That's the biggest concern I'd take away from Darvish's outing last night. Not only did he allow 5 runs, but he allowed 5 runs to Seattle!

I was being nice as it was his debut. If he did that every day, he'd be pitching for the Red Sox as their #1 or #2 Starter...

I took notice of that, and would have commented on it, except Seattle blows too!

The unfortunate thing about trading away Reddick is that I was really looking forward to throws like this from our right fielder.

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=20492409&c_id=oak&partnerId=aw-7555153291739738622-1039

Great throw.

Yeah, having an OFer with a decent arm is something I've been hoping to see for a while. That's one of the reasons I keep hoping Lin can at least maintain a great OBP and be considered a leadoff option for Boston in the future. I know I'm probably dreaming about that, but it's a good dream.

Texas Rangers are drawing 40,000 crowds consistantly for the whole season now.

As two-time defending AL Champs should.

Arthur Either hit homerun in sun drench Magic Johnson Dodger Stadium before a massive 56,000 crowd to open 50th LA Dodger Stadium opening day as Clay Kenshaw wins game 2-1.

I think the Texas Rangers must be 5-0 now.

@ Los Angeles Dodgers 2 Pittsburgh Pirates 1 (attendance sellout of 56,000 fans)

Ralph Newman's :) singing of "I love LA"

"a da ta da ............on a James Loney highway...........I see Matt Kemp on a Sunset boulevard strip hoint ......a diverse city, I love LA.....da ta.side..............East Side and west side.....it was 1-1 tie game I sing I love LA and here come mister enjoyable Andre Either..............east side west side
at I love LA, we love it.......Andre Either hitting a homerun.............we love it...............I love LA
da da ta ................I love LA, homerun on opening day..............we love it..........we are LA"

Man that place is empty

CHW 4 CLE 0 (1ST INNING) LOL comedy of bad plays