Timlin comes in to save a 4-3 Red Sox lead -- and he allows four hits to five batters. Millar gets the big blow, driving in the two runs that give Baltimore the victory.
Ortiz came close to tying in as a pinch-hitter leading off the ninth, but flew out to deep center, just to the left of the bullpens. ... Manny hit home run #35 and also picked up a single and a walk.
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Adam Loewen (5.30) / Tim Wakefield (4.63), 7 PM
Red Sox lineup -- Ortiz out, Manny in:
Pedroia, SS
Loretta, 2B
Lowell, 3B
Ramirez, DH
WM Pena, CF
Nixon, RF
Mirabelli, C
Kapler, LF
C Pena, 1B
9 comments:
You haven't missed much.
I've been pretty absent and haven't read the rags much at all.
The media has been spouting that less offense/better defense line all year.
I'll be doing my MVP posts soon.
I don't want to get into a fruitless chicken or egg discussion, but there's plenty of evidence that the Sox hitters 5 through 9 in the order were below league average. Once Crisp went lead-off (and who knows that didn't come from Theo), the offense was decidedly a 2-man crew. Then 1/2 left with Manny. Let's just say that in the end, the offense couldn't support the level of pitching the club was getting. Defense? If somebody in the FO still has a hard-on for Lugo and they let AGon get away, somebody is fucking nuts.
How can "professionals" be that stupid and live?
Live, maybe. But work??? Get and keep some of the most enviable jobs in the country???
DOES JIM PALMER WEAR A TOUP OR NOT?
yes
At the risk of being misinterpreted: go yankees. I do not want to finish 3rd.
Do not.
If I wish Mike Timlin has a hunting accident in the off-season, does that make me a bad person?
Just asking. Like, for information's sake.
Timlin 9 saves 7 blown saves and 21 holds. This series is typical of his year.
I was tired of that record of finishing behind NY all those seasons in a row, and just knew this was the year it would change. This wasn't how I thought it would happen, of course...
I was just thinking that.
Pfft.
And now, Sunday. All it's glory, staring us in the face. And the news that Roger, Miggy, Pettite and others were ALL bad boys. Or Grimsley is a great liar. Nothing substantiated, but when I heard this in the early morning hours of a grey Sunday, I went downstairs and went to the LA Times' website, and posted it. Breaking news on what day? The final day of the regular season! Scripted timing? Dunno...what do you think?
Why do my posts keep getting deleted?
Because your very first comment here was an assholeish remark. Not a good beginning ... or ending, as it were.
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