Sort of.
After a 3:23 rain delay, Mike Lowell clubbed a three-run home run in the first to give Boston a quick lead. In the third, a bases-loaded walk to Carlos Pena and Gabe kapler's three-run double upped the score to 7-0. Mark Loretta and Eric Hinske hit solo home runs in the fourth and fifth innings, respectively, for the other two runs.
Hansack (5-0-0-1-6, 61) retired 14 of the 15 batters he faced (six on strikeouts) and picked up his first major-league win. He walked Fernando Tatis in the second, but then got an inning-ending double play. It will not be recorded as an official no-hitter, since the game did not go nine innings.
The game began at 5:28. As Hansack was finishing his warmup pitches for the sixth inning at 7:05, the umpires called for the tarp.
An odd way to end the season.
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There's a chance of rain this afternoon. Lineups for the final game of the year:
***Roberts, 2B Nixon, RF
Patterson, CF Loretta, 2B
Mora, 3B Ortiz, DH
Tejada, DH Lowell, 3B
Tatis, LF Varitek, C
Gomez, 1B Hinske, 1B
Newhan, RF C Pena, 1B
Fahey, SS Kapler, CF
Chavez, C Cora, SS
Hayden Penn (13.76) / Devern Hansack (5.40), 2 PM
Will this be Trot Nixon's last game in a Red Sox uniform? ... Penn has made five starts this year and pitched out of the fourth inning only once.
To finish in a second-place tie (and not in third), Boston must win this afternoon and the Yankees have to beat the Blue Jays.
Sportsnet intro. to Jays/Yanks final with our boy Buffy trumpeting the Jays' "higest finish since 1993" complete with Wagnerian background sound. The horror, the horror.
ReplyDeleteThey might finish higher than third place for the first time in 13 years?
ReplyDeleteHow nice for them.
Get ready to pop that cork, Buffy!
Actually, the Jays HAVE WON 2ND, even if the Sox tie for the same number of wins the Jays finish 2nd because of their better record against the Sox this year.
ReplyDeleteManny has already finished in third.
Manny?
ReplyDeleteRoger Davis, your team finishes, what, 11 games out, because its closest rival was destroyed by injuries, and you put on your caps lock? Get over yourself. You root for the friggin Blue Jays. You should show a little humility.
ReplyDelete"You root for the friggin Blue Jays. You should show a little humility."
ReplyDeleteYeah cheering for first place teams takes some special talent...
Yeah cheering for first place teams takes some special talent...
ReplyDelete1. The Red Sox haven't finished in first place for quite awhile.
2. And if you are referring to Laura's former fondness for the Yankees, please note that we spent lots of money -- and way too many after-midnight hours on the D train back to Brooklyn -- going to games in the Bronx during the less than successful 1987 to 1993 seasons.
3. Judging by your comment, you apparently never want your team to finish atop its division. That's odd.
Yeah cheering for first place teams takes some special talent...
ReplyDeleteWho here roots for a first-place team? I don't know about you, but I root for my team no matter what "place" they're in.
From 1975-2003 that was the Yankees. Many non-first-place finishes in there.
From 2003 until forever it is the Red Sox.
It's my second marriage.
And what's your problem? Who are you, anyway?
There is a baseball-loving student named lamoid posting here who lives down the road in Oakville.
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