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Sox Leaving Yankees Seeing Stars
July 5, 2008
http://redsoxnews.bostonstenth.com/2008/07/sox-leaving-yankees-seeing-stars.html
Another huge win at Yankee Stadium has Red Sox Nation feeling much better about things. Just about everyone contributed in this one - except for The Pig Lugo of course (although he did make a surprisingly nice play).
The two big blows were delivered by Kevin Youkilis and Mike Lowell. These guys have continually come through in the clutch all season, especially since David Ortiz went down.
Youk's two-run triple that tied it in the 3rd was one of the craziest plays we've ever seen. At first I was cursing Johnny Damon thinking he had made a great catch, then all of sudden it looked the ball fell out of the sky and landed next to him.
The ball actually came out of Damon's glove when he hit the wall and sat on top of the fence for what seemed like about 30 seconds. Youk never stopped running and got to third easily. The best part was the Yankee fan running down to the fence yelling at Johnny and pointing to the ball to show him where it was. Got to love the Sox fans' reaction in the picture too.
Lowell's 3-run homer in the 5th to give the Sox a 6-3 lead was one of the biggest hits of the season too. The Sox had let Darrell Rasner off the hook a couple of times, but Lowell made sure that wouldn't happen again. If it wasn't for Lowell, I think we'd be questioning the Hanley Ramirez deal quite a bit.
Josh Beckett pitched well after a shaky first inning, but once again he was pulled after 102 pitches when it looked like he could have gone another inning. Am I the only one who thinks this 100-pitch rule is ridiculous?
The bullpen tried to give it away again, but came up with just enough pitches to get the job done. The game should have ended on Coco Crisp's great diving catch in the 9th, but a terrible call by Wally Bell almost let the Yankees tie it. Baseball really needs to do something about the shoddy umpiring this season because that one was another obvious blown call.
-www.bostonstenth.com
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