# Baseball August 2009 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 1, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-august-2009/504998 "2009-08-01T20:41:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 105
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-august-2009/504998/105 "2009-08-12T17:49:09Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Pffft. Youkilis was owned. His “lunge” consisted of holding on to Porcello for three or four steps, and then Porcello threw him down like a pair of deuces. Not only that, but Youkilis threw his batting helmet at Porcello before he got to him, which is also pretty fucking lame. I like Youkilis, but he looked like a chump on that play. > [@RickJay](#): > > Porcello hitting him was bush league, though. The Tazawa HBP on Cabrera was unintentional. Retaliating for a simple accident is bullshit. Agree. If there hadn’t been any tensions left over from the night before, i doubt he would have retaliated, but it seemed that basically any HBP was going to be interpreted as an intentional act last night, whether it was intentional or not. > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Better watch again. Porcello put his arms out in a self-abasing gesture of apology and submissiveness, while running backward as quickly as he could, before being wrapped up and pulled down anyway. Meanwhile, the rest of the Pussycats players stood and watched. Bwuh? Are we watching the same video? The one where Youkilis threw his helmet at the pitcher, and then got taken to the ground in a judo-style throw for his troubles? By the way, **Elvis** , are you still as bullish on Big Papi as you were two months ago, when you insisted that he was back? I think your final word on the matter was: > [@Baseball June 2009](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-june-2009/498348/140): > > Another dinger for Papi last night. A no-doubter right over the Wall. 3 in 5 games. > Any further questions? In the two months since then, Ortiz’s line is: .240/.316/.485 Since July 1, he’s batting .208/.275/.424 In August so far, he’s at .111/.200/.139 On the plus side, his season OPS (.711) is exactly the same as that other superstar, Vernon Wells, with three more homers as 14 fewer stolen bases. And Ortiz at least has the advantage of playing a strong center field. Oh wait, my mistake. That’s Wells. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baseball-august-2009/504998)._