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Beckett (7-4-2-2-6, 104) hit Derek Jeter in the first inning and then gave up a home run to Curtis Granderson, putting the Sox in a 2-0 hole. And the visitors' bats were silent until the seventh.
David Ortiz (who was drilled in the right thigh in the fourth inning, prompting warnings to both benches) grounded a single to right-center to start the inning. Jed Lowrie's first-pitch line drive down the right field line got past Nick Swisher for a triple, cutting the Yankees' lead to 2-1. Carl Crawford grounded out to third (1B umpire Brian Knight took a long look at the first base bag before making his call), but Mike Cameron doubled to left, towards the corner, scoring Lowrie and tying the game. Jason Varitek singled to right, as did Jacoby Ellsbury (after fouling off a tough 1-2 pitch), and the Sox led 3-2.
Marco Scutaro then drilled a pitch to left center that the speedy Brent Gardner ran down in the gap and made a leaping catch on. Adrian Gonzalez, who had two fugly strikeouts against CC earlier in the evening, lined a single to center (4-2). That was finally it for Sabathia (6.2-8-6-2-5, 108) and David Robertson came in. Kevin Youkilis singled on an 0-2 pitch (5-2) and Ortiz belted a two-run double to the wall in left-center (7-2). Lowrie flied to left for the third out.
One-out doubles from Scutaro and Gonzalez gave Boston another run in the ninth. Seven of Boston's 12 hits came with runners at second and/or third base.
The game started at 10:32 - after a rain delay of 3:27.
Beckett has made two starts against the Yankees this season - April 10 (4-0) and May 14 (6-0) - pitching 14 scoreless innings, allowing only six hits and three walks, and striking out 19. He was matched up against Sabathia both times (12.1 innings, 16 hits, 7 runs, 7 walks, 10 strikeouts).
The Red Sox (7-1 against New York this year) have won 9 of their last 10 games against the Yankees (also 12 of 15 and 15 of 21) .
Terry Francona, on WEEI's Big Show, Wednesday afternoon:
How as Ortiz's ability to hit lefthanders affected the lineup this season?AL East: Blue Jays/Royals at 4 PM.
It does a couple of things. One, it lets me answer a heck of a lot less questions. ...
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 241 of 241He said, defending the city as a matter of principle.
For some of the people in the stadium, it might take less time to hang out there and go to their jobs instead of going home to get ready for work at this point.
Another 7-spot, pls.
Ellsbury looked safe to me.
yeah, i'll gladly stay up until 3 am or so for more run(s).
At least they don't have to worry about the subway shutting down at 12:35 like we do.
nice. single makes it 8-2. dong after that makes it 10-2.
BERT!!!!
Wooooooo!!!!!
or double, either way.
EB 2B!
does jere have a crystal ball or is my feed slow?
bat flip, pls.
Papi thinking dong here
Gardner is robbing everyone of line drive base hits out there.
oh well, i guess they want to just get it over with, figuring the sweep -- the 2nd one in nyc this year, first time since 1913 -- is enough of a statement.
You awake folks in eastern time zone are hard core.
i don't have to be at work until noon.
but, yes, i am hard core.
wheeler in the sky
keeps on turning
When was the last time we heard the crowd in this game? The sixth inning, maybe?
My kids will be up in 5.5 hours. I don't care. This is WORTH IT.
Did my love of a sport played at night make me a night owl? Or did my being a night owl just make it easy to never go to sleep on a Red Sox game?
crowd?
i may have heard some snoring...
He goes Journey when a Steel Wheels reference is staring him right in the face??
I will be at work at 9. I just need to be up by 7, so even if they played till 3 I'd be fine.
i just type what i hear in my head..
But seriously, Wheeler, I would like to get a couple of hours' sleep if at all possible.
line drive dp, pls
If there's some way to get a DP out of this at bad, CI will find it.
productive out! classy!
MFY fans still dissappointed in CI. No hit = no progress to 3,000.
base hit
Sweet sweep!
sweep tight, bitches
Yes! Dirty sweepy sleepy water!!!! :D
broom, broom!!
'night all!!!
Strikeout for Dirty Water!!
Wooohoooo!!!!
I later figured out this was the October '79 visit to NYC. Which makes me just-turned-4 at the time.
Wow Jere, you are OLD.
Kat the troll :)
Scrolling through the end of this thread was a treat.
It would have been physically impossible for me to watch this game, but hearing we swept and how it happened was great.
No need to wake up and check the score. I get an update while still in bed at 3:30 am! :)
I fell asleep listening to the game on my phone and woke up to hear the last two innings (thanks to Jonathan letting me know he was home). I missed the explosive 7th, though.
And this is the first place I check to catch up on how the game went.
I was asleep before the game even started last night. But waking up to this news this morning was SWEET!
I admire all you hardy souls who made it to the end of the game.
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