SOX & Dawgs (Free subscription) | yesterday
(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) The Boston Red Sox had a grand opportunity to really bury the New York Yankees postseason hopes yesterday as Jon Lester went out and did his job, leaving the game with a lead. Unfortunately, Hideki Okajima served up a nice fat meatball to Jason Giambi [...]
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK - The ball, blasted off the bat of Jason Giambi on a fastball from Hideki Okajima, cleared the center-field fence.
Let's Go Yankees Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The most impressive thing I get from this game is Girardi's in-game decision. In the 7th inning with 2 outs, Girardi decided to use Giambi as pinch-hitter for Molina in spite of Francona's decision which he puts Hideki Okajima to relieve Lester. I guess Francona wants to use Okajima in order to let Girardi put I-Rod or Betemit as pinch hitter, but Joe Girardi doesn't just look at the match-up and doesn't...
Lone Star Ball (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Current Series 3 game series vs Red Sox @ Fenway Park Tue 08/12 WP: Hideki Okajima (3 - 2) SV: Jonathan Papelbon LP: Frank Francisco (2 - 4) 17 - 19 loss Wed 08/13 WP: Jon Lester (11 - 4) LP: Luis Mendoza (3 - 6) 4 - 8 loss Texas Rangers Lone Star Ball @ Boston Red Sox Over the Monster Thursday, Aug 14, 2008, 6:05 PM CDT Fenway Park Tommy Hunter vs Daisuke Matsuzaka Mostly cloudy with a 30-percent...
Lone Star Ball (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Current Series 3 game series vs Red Sox @ Fenway Park Tue 08/12 WP: Hideki Okajima (3 - 2) SV: Jonathan Papelbon LP: Frank Francisco (2 - 4) 17 - 19 loss Texas Rangers Lone Star Ball @ Boston Red Sox Over the Monster Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008, 6:05 PM CDT Fenway Park Luis Mendoza vs Jon Lester Partly cloudy. Winds blowing out to center field at 10-15 m.p.h. Game Time temperature: Around 75. Complete...
Extra Bases (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Latest reliever for Sox is Hideki Okajima, who replaced Delcarmen after Marlon Byrd's single and career-high fifth hit in the game scored Josh Hamilton to give the Rangers a 16-14 lead. Earlier, Hamilton doubled to center, his drive landing just out of the reach of a diving Coco Crisp.
Extra Bases (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Manny Delcarmen has entered the game in the eighth in relief of Hideki Okajima (1 inning, 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 strikeout).
Extra Bases (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Oakland left fielder Jack Cust rapped a home run off the top of the left-field wall in the top of the eighth inning off Red Sox reliever Hideki Okajima to pull the A's into a 1-1 tie with Boston. With two out, Okajima had a full count on Cust but couldn't put him away. He then gave up a walk to Frank Thomas but the A's couldn't generate any more offense in the inning with Carlos Gonzalez making the...
Extra Bases (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
The Red Sox have brought in reliever Hideki Okajima to pitch to the A's in the top of the eighth inning with Boston still leading by a 1-0 score.
Extra Bases (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Daisuke Matsuzaka shut out the Mariners on two hits through seven innings before giving up three straight hits, including the first big-league hit by Worcester's Bryan LaHair and a double by longtime nemesis Ichiro Suzuki. Hideki Okajima, who hadn't pitched in nine days, came on to register two outs in the eighth, Papelbon pitched the ninth for his 30th save, and Daisuke ran his record to 11-1, even...
SOX & Dawgs (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Hideki Okajima has been downright awful with inherited runners. The curse of the Boston bullpen this season has been the allowing of inherited runners to score. They have been horrible. Usually reliable pitchers have allowed too many of these runs costing the team games. Here is the breakdown by reliever of the number of inherited runners (IR) [...]
Extra Bases (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched into the eighth inning before leaving after having thrown 108 pitches, and then watched Hideki Okajima escape a bases-loaded jam and keep the game scoreless. The inning began with a flyout by Chris Gomez, but Alexi Casilla singled to extend his 14-game hitting streak and Joe Mauer followed with another single, ending Matsuzaka's night at 7 1/3 innings. He allowed six hits...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
NEW YORK - With Hideki Okajima struggling, sidearming Javier Lopez has become the most trusted lefthanded reliever in the Red Sox bullpen, one season after he was a regular on the Boston-Pawtucket shuttle.
Extra Bases (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
It was another bad moment for Hideki Okajima, and another one for Alex Rodriguez. Okajima loaded the bases, getting the second out of the inning, before yielding to Manny Delcarmen. And Delcarmen came into the game with the bases loaded and Rodriguez at the plate. That's not an easy assignment. But Delcarmen got Rodriguez to ground to third base for a force out and the end of the inning. It's still...
Extra Bases (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
It wasn't Hideki Okajima this time, but the bullpen built some trouble nonetheless. Between Manny Delcarmen and Craig Hansen, neither reliever retired a single batter in the seventh inning, before David Aardsma finally got a groundout from Cliff Floyd. Jason Bartlett doubled, Akinori Iwamura singled (infield, RBI), and Carl Crawford singled, at which point Delcarmen was taken out. But Hansen did no...
