Red Sox 6, Rangers 5
Apr. 20th, 2008 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feste_sylvainWe were losing pretty much the whole game. The Rangers' first batter smacked a floating knuckleball over the Green Monster, and it looked like we'd never catch up.
Manny Ramirez said one of the magic words to the home plate umpire, most likely about the precise location of the strike zone, and got thrown out of the game after his first at-bat. Texas's pitcher Kevin Millwood pretty much had our number, often allowing base-runners, but just as often stranding us scoreless with the bases loaded.
Until the seventh inning, when we finally scored, and the Rangers pulled Millwood. And then pushed another run across. But that was it, and we were still down 5-2.
And the bottom of the eighth started with the first two batters being retired. But Jacoby Ellsbury smacked a hit, new kid Jed Lowrie doubled, and the Rangers put in their closer "to get four outs".
He didn't get them. Big Papi legged out a single, which allowed Lowrie to score. Then Dustin Pedroia came in as a pinch hitter and hit a gapper which scored Papi all the way from first, and Pedroia stretched his double all the way to third. Rangers closer C.J. Wilson intentionally walked Youkilis to pitch to lefty J.D. Drew, who fouled off everything over the plate and watched everything that wasn't go by, walking to load the bases. Then lefty Sean Casey did the same thing, walking in a run. The go-ahead run. The last run we needed.
Jon Papelbon got three fly-outs, and that was that.
Once again, the Red Sox are trying to kill their fans with cardiacs.
Manny Ramirez said one of the magic words to the home plate umpire, most likely about the precise location of the strike zone, and got thrown out of the game after his first at-bat. Texas's pitcher Kevin Millwood pretty much had our number, often allowing base-runners, but just as often stranding us scoreless with the bases loaded.
Until the seventh inning, when we finally scored, and the Rangers pulled Millwood. And then pushed another run across. But that was it, and we were still down 5-2.
And the bottom of the eighth started with the first two batters being retired. But Jacoby Ellsbury smacked a hit, new kid Jed Lowrie doubled, and the Rangers put in their closer "to get four outs".
He didn't get them. Big Papi legged out a single, which allowed Lowrie to score. Then Dustin Pedroia came in as a pinch hitter and hit a gapper which scored Papi all the way from first, and Pedroia stretched his double all the way to third. Rangers closer C.J. Wilson intentionally walked Youkilis to pitch to lefty J.D. Drew, who fouled off everything over the plate and watched everything that wasn't go by, walking to load the bases. Then lefty Sean Casey did the same thing, walking in a run. The go-ahead run. The last run we needed.
Jon Papelbon got three fly-outs, and that was that.
Once again, the Red Sox are trying to kill their fans with cardiacs.
