Ass pitching gets Rudy designated for ass.

Rudy Seanez was designated for assignment yesterday, ending a painful experiment. Seanez, who was signed to a one-year, $2.1 million contract over the winter, struggled with his consistency this season and didn’t come close to duplicating his 2005 with San Diego (7-1, 2.69 ERA). The 37-year-old right-hander went 2-1 with a 4.82 ERA in 41 appearances for the Sox.
``We stayed late last night to go over all the possible scenarios, what we should do, what we wanted to do, needed to do," Terry Francona said. ``If we didn't get a fresh arm, we'd put some people in jeopardy. It wasn't something we enjoyed when we told him.

Kason Gabbard, scratched from his start for Pawtucket Friday, now looms as a logical candidate to start Tuesday in Anaheim, Calif., after Kyle Snyder, who had tentatively been penciled in for that start, was used in relief in each of the last two days. Gabbard was pulled from the bus and spent the night in a motel, getting picked up in the morning by a Sox staffer.