JAYBAY ON THE ROCKS...WITH DREW BOOKENDS!
October 4, 2008
WHAT DO YOU GET FROM THE LAST LETTER OF JD'S LAST NAME AND THE FIRST LETTER OF THIS SENTENCE???? TWO W'S! AND THATS EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE IN THIS YEARS POST-SEASON SO FAR!!!!!
WHAT A FRIGGIN GAME LAST NIGHT! WOW!!!!!!! THAT WAS SERIOUSLY A VERY ENTERTAINING GAME,WHERE NO MATTER WHO WAS UP AND WHAT THE COUNT WAS, YOU DIDNT WANNA LOOK AWAY FOR A SECOND. DICE-K DID WHAT WAS EXPECTED OF HIM LAST NIGHT IN MY EYES.......I MEAN, THINK ABOUT IT......WITH TODAY OFF, TITO KNEW HE COULD DIP INTO THE PEN AND HAVE ALL OF EM GET SOME PITCHES IN IF NEED BE! SO......DAISUKE'S NUMBERS......108 PITCHES, THROUGH FIVE, 3ER'S ON 8 HITS, WITH 3 BB'S AND 5 K'S! HE DIDNT ALLOW "ANY" EXTRA BASE HITS, HE DIDNT ALLOW MORE THAN ONE RUN IN ANY INNING, AND THE JAMS HE GOT HIMSELF INTO.....HE GOT HIMSELF OUT OF! HE DID WHAT WE EXPECTED HIM TO DO......LEFT THE GAME WITH US AHEAD....AND REMAINS UNBEATEN ON THE ROAD THIS YEAR!!!
IT LOOKED LIKE ERVIN SANTANA WAS GONNA HAVE A QUICK 1ST INNING AS HE GOT THE FIRST TWO OUTS PRETTY QUICKLY........BUT........THEN HE HIT A LITTLE SNAG! PAPI GETS UP AND HITS A NICE BLOOP GETTING HIMSELF ON BASE.......THEN, YOOOOOUK COMES UP AND DOES THE SAME! UP STEPS JD DREW WHO GETS HIMSELF A NICE BALL TO HIT GETTING HIMSELF ON BASE AND BRINGIN PAPI HOME TO PUT US ON THE BOARD FIRST AGAIN. THEN UP STEPS LAST GAMES HERO IN HIS 2ND "EVER" PLAYOFF GAME SINCE HE WENT TO THE LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES! NOW IN THE LAST GAME, IT TOOK THREE AT BATS FOR JAYBAY TO GET WARMED UP AS HE STRUCK OUT THE FIRST TWO AT BATS......NOT THE CASE LAST NIGHT! *BANG* HE SLAMS THE BALL RIGHT TO THE ROCKS IN THAT SOOTHING WATERFALL THING IN CENTER FIELD, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY RECORDING HIS SECOND HOMERUN IN AS MANY PLAYOFF GAMES, AND BRINGIN BOTH PAPI AND YOUK ACROSS AND PUTTING US ON TOP 4-ZIP IN THE FIRST INNING! BAYS POST SEASON NUMBERS ARE PHENOMINAL WITH A BA OF.556 OVER THE TWO GAMES,AND TWO HOMERS WITH 5 RBI'S AND MAKING HIM THE ONLY RED SOX PLAYER"EVER" TO RECORD A HOMER IN EACH OF HIS FIRST TWO GAMES IN POST SEASON PLAY! (AND TO DO COMPARISON...LAST YEARS MANNY IN THE POST THROUGH TWO .500 2 HR'S 3 RBI'S AND 4 RUNS) NO PITCHING DUEL TONIGHT KIDDIES! AND ALL COMING WITH TWO OUTS MIND YOU!
THROUGH THE REST OF DAISUKE'S INNINGS, THE HALOS CHIPPED AWAY AT OUR EARLY LEAD GETTING A RUN HERE AND THERE, AND MOSTLY WITH TWO OUTS ALREADY RECORDED. BUT LIKE LESTER IN GAME ONE.....HE KEPT ANY HITS THE ANGELS MADE DOWN TO ONE BASE ONLY. WITH THE FIFTH INNING BEING THE ROUGHEST OF ALL HAVING HIM THROW 36 PITCHES, YOU JUST KNEW IT WAS NEAR THE END OF HIS NIGHT! BUT LIKE I SAID, HE DID WHAT HE CAME HERE TO DO......LEAVE US IN THE GAME! AND RIGHT THROUGH TO THE FIFTH INNING, I DONT THINK "ANYONE" ON "EITHER" TEAM GOT A HITWITH LESS THAN TWO OUTS IN THE INNING! PRETTY CRAZY, BUT WITH US NEVER TRAILING ONCE IN THIS GAME......I'LL TAKE IT!
NOW LET'S HOP SKIP AND JUMP TO THE FUN.......JUSTIN MASTERSON HAD A ROUGH GO IN THE 7TH I THINK IT WAS.......SURRENDERING A WALK TO TEXIERA WITH THE BASES FULL OF HALOS AND MORE IMPORTANTLY BRINGIN THEM TO WITHIN JUST ONE RUN (5-4)........BUT SHOWING GREAT POISE, FACING AYBAR, HE STRUCK HIM OUT AND GOT OUT OF THE JAM!
THEN IN THE 8TH INNING, THE HALOS STRUCK BACK A LITTLE MORE WITH A LEADOFF TRIPLE, FOR THEIR FIRST EXTRA BASE HIT IN THIS SERIES! AFTER AN INFIELD POPUP, TEXIERA STEPPED UP AND HIT A LONG SACRAFICE FLYBALL THAT SCORED THEM THE TYING RUN MAKING THE GAME A LITTLE MORE INTERESTING AT 5 TO 5!
HOP SKIP AND JUMP TO THE TOP OF THE 9TH.......AND FACING K-ROD, THE LEAGUES MOST DANGEROUS CLOSER THIS YEAR! UP STEPS PAPI AND HE PUTS THE WOOD TO THE BALL AND SLAMS HIMSELF AN AWESOME DOUBLE! COCO COMES IN TO PINCH RUN FOR PAPI AND "ALMOST" GETS PICKED OFF WHEN K-ROD CATCHES HIM LEANING A LITTLE TOO MUCH TOWARDS 3RD.....BUT ON CLOSER REVIEW, HE DIDNT GET TAGGED AS THE UMP CLEARLY SAW AND ALL WAS SAFE! NOW THIS SCENARIO, WITH ONE ON AND TWO OUTS AND THE SCORE TIED IN GAME 2 OF THE ALDS, BROUGHT BACK SOME GREAT MEMORIES OF A GAME THAT I GOT TO SEE LAST YEAR! I HAVE THE VIDEO I TOOK WASTED OFF ME ARSE IN THE 9TH INNING FROM THE HOMEPLATE PAVILLION AT FENWAY IN GAME 2 OF THE ALDS, US DOWN BY TWO WITH TWO ON AND TWO OUTS TWO BALLS AND TWO STRIKES TO MANNY RAMIREZ AND HE SENT ONE SCREAMIN OVER THE MONSTAH FOR THE WALKOFF WIN! WELL.......MANNY'S GONE! AND RIGHT NOW WE HAVE 2 OUTS IN THE 9TH INNING AND ITS TIED WITH ONE MAN ON.....AND UP TO THE PLATE STEPS JD DREW WHO HAD ONLY STARTED TWO GAMES SINCE AUGUST 17TH....AND NOT HITTING A HOMER SINCE JULY! I SAT THERE SAYIN "JUST GET ON BASE BUDDY" OVER AND OVER AGAIN! K-ROD QUICKLY GOT HIM DOWN TO A 2-2 COUNT AND THEN IT CAME.........THE CHANGE-UP THAT STAYED OVER AND *BANG* JD DREW GETS THE OTHER END OF HIS BOOKENDS AS THE FIRST PERSON TO GET SCORING STARTED IN THIS GAME WITH HIS RBI DOUBLE IN THE FIRST AND A 2-RUN HOMER OFF OF THE BEST CLOSER IN THE GAME THIS SEASON IN THE 9TH INNING PUTTING US ON TOP BY TWO RUNS!!!!!!!!!! WHAT A FRIGGIN LIFT! AND I WOKE UP EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE AS I DANCED AROUND MY ROOM YELLING AND HOOPIN-HOLLERIN ABOUT "11-STRAIGHT"!
WHAT A FRIGGIN GAME! THIS GAME WAS VERY EXCITING WITH LOTS OF STUFF GOIN ON! AND AFTER DREWS 2 BANGER........PAPS DID HIS WORK IN THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE 9TH WITH SOME HELP FROM YOUK AT THIRD WITH A PHENOMINAL CATCH LEANING OVER THE CAMERAS BY THE HALOS DUGOUT!
SOME KEYNOTE STATS AND RECORDS TO MAKE NOTE OF.....DAVID ORTIZ MOVED INTO A TIE FOR SECOND PLACE ALL-TIME WITH HIS 13 GAME HIT STREAK IN DIVISIONAL SERIES GAMES! PAPS IS IN SECOND PLACE ALL TIME WITH 17 SCORELESS INNINGS IN 11 POST SEASON GAMES (1ST IS JOE NEIKRO WITH 20)! SOX NOW HAVE THE MLB RECORD WITH 11 CONSECUTIVE POST SEASON WINS AGAINST THE ANGELS, AND ARE TIED FOR 4TH ALL-TIME WITH A 9 GAME WIN STREAK OVERALL IN THE POST SEASON! DATING BACK TO 1986 IN GAME 5'S 9TH INNING THE HALOS HAVE ONLY LED IN 7 OF THE PAST 94 INNINGS IN THE POST SEASON AGAINST US! AND.......IT WAS K-ROD WHO BLEW THE LAST TWO GAME 2'S AGAINST US AS HE WAS THE ONE WHO GAVE UP THAT 3-RUN WALKOFF TO MANNY AS WELL AS GIVING UP THE 2-BANGER TO DREW LAST NIGHT!
I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SUNDAYS GAME AND CANNOT WAIT! WE HAVE A CHANCE TO DO WHAT WE SAID WE'D DO IN THIS SERIES AND SAWEEEEEEEEEEP THE HALOS UNDER THE RUG! HEY.....THEY WERE THE ONLY 100-WIN TEAM THIS REG SEASON.....KUDOS......BUT WE ARE THE DEFENDING WORLD CHAMPIONS......AND I DONT SEE THAT CHANGING ANY TIME SOON! WE ARE BAD MEN!!!!! LGRS!!!!!!
"WHAT WE DO IN LIFE........ECHOES IN ETERNITY!"
-IRISH WHITEY~RSM~™
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