Alex Rodriguez is more brake than clutch.
With one out and one on in the bottom of the ninth, Slappy, pinch-hitting and representing the winning run, popped out to second. Then Melky Cabrera flew out to left -- denying Derek Jeter another chance to extend his 25-game hitting streak -- and Boston had a sweep of today's doubleheader.
Jorge Posada drove in three of New York's first four runs and with the score tied 4-4 in the eighth, he was robbed of a two-run home run by Coco Crisp, who leapt high over the wall in left-center and pulled his fly ball back.
In the top of the ninth, after Carlos Pena doubled and Alex Cora went in to run, Crisp laid down a bunt in front of the plate. Posada's throw to first was wide, pulling Andy Phillips's foot off the bag. Crisp was safe and Cora took third. Mark Loretta's fly out to short center brought in the go-ahead run, as Bernie Williams's five-hopper to the plate was too late.
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Late with this one. 2-2 after four.
Kevin Jarvis / Mike Mussina, 8 PM
9 comments:
It was a wild pitch, but I can't resist:
PASSEDBALLA!
Sweet, sweet. Shows ya how snake-bit Sox were during that nameless shitty 4-day weekend. Sweep the Twinkies!!
Also hell of a play by Loretta at first to start the bottom of the ninth.
Was good stuff watching the Sox beat the Yanks. We better sweep Minny if we wanna even think about October baseball...
I'm so sad that "the twins"--the name I've given in my head to those consecutive posts from a while back that garnered over 160 comments between them--are about to fall off the main page of JoS! Two long-ass, interesting conversations, headed to the acrhives.
We better sweep Minny if we wanna even think about October baseball...
Fuckin' A.
I'm so sad that "the twins"--the name I've given in my head to those consecutive posts from a while back that garnered over 160 comments between them--are about to fall off the main page of JoS! Two long-ass, interesting conversations, headed to the acrhives.
That's cool. I like that. :)
I'm only wondering if 9Casey will answer my personal question.
We better sweep Minny if we wanna even think about October baseball...
I thought I was the only one still fantasizing about October baseball...
I came up with the idea that if Detroit fell behind Minny, we could more easily overtake them, as they'd be dejected. But when looking at the schedule, for that to happen, we'd have to win every single game. So it's pass Minny or bust. Or pass the Yankees in miraculous fashion.
Alas,
to win all over Minny requires pitching - we got half what we need. But, there is always next year!
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