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Game 24 - Red Sox vs. Rays
By Jessica | April 26, 2008
Pregame - Staats and Magrane with the call again. I’m so obsessed with Staats hair. Do you think it’s crunchy? Ed-WIN Jackson vs. Clay Buchholz tonight.
Top 1st - slow roller + speedy runner = base hit for Ellsbury. Pedroia hits into a nice 5-4-3 double play. Drew gets a freakish broken bat single to Aki. Jackson blows it all off and strikes out Ramirez.
Bottom 1st - Buchholz looks like a cute lemur, with way too many necklaces. Aki strikes out. Crawford grounds out. BJ and Pena walk, but Bucholz blows it all off and strikes out Longo.
Top 2nd - Youkilis walks. Crisp hits into a fielders choice, Youk out. Varitek flys out to center and BJ doubles Crisp off first.
Bottom 2nd - Three up, three down go the Rays.
Top 3rd - Lowrie rips a nice base hit. Word on the street is he’s workin Fabio Lugo out of a job. Lugo flies out. Ellsbury and Pedroia go down too.
Bottom 3rd - Three up, three down go the Rays again. Shucks.
Top 4th - Three up, three down go the Red Sox. WooHoo!
Bottom 4th - Upton doubles to left. Rock on. Pena grounds out but moves BJ to third. Longo and Hinske both ground out. Fudge.
Top 5th - Crisp base hit. Varitek strikes out. Wild pitch to Lowrie and Crisp goes from first to third. Ugly. Lugo strikes out. Ellsbury hits a hard grounder to third and Longo damn near got him but Crisp scores. 1-0 Red Sox. Pedroia grounds out.
Bottom 5th - Gross, Riggans and Bartlett sit back down in order.
Top 6th - Pena makes a great grab at first and they get the Sox 1,2, 3.
Bottom 6th - 3 Rays get out.
Top 7th - 1 walk but 3 Sox get out.
Bottom 7th - 3 Rays don’t get on base.
Top 8th - Miller gets Ellsbury to pop out, and strikes out Pedroia, but then walks Drew. No fear, Doh!man strikes out Manny Ramirez!
Bottom 8th - Gross strikes out. Navarro in to hit for Riggy. He totally struck out but the Sox didn’t get the call and one pitch later he singled to right. Bartlett flies out. No Way! Aki hits a two run homer to right! Who knew?? Rays take the lead . Boston 1 - Tampa 2. CC gets out.
Top 9th - Percy in to pitch. He gets Youkilis and Crisp to fly out. Then strikes out Varitek! Rays beat Boston again!
Postgame - This game was not nearly as exciting as last nights most due to some great starting pitching. Edwin pitched a great game. Glad I’m not making the decision when Kazmir returns. Buchholz also pitched great. I actually felt sorry for him since he only made that one mistake and it cost him.
More good relief pitching. It’s hard for a Rays fan to handle. Navarro came in and stepped up big with a single. Aki is the hero tonight! What’s next? Is Bartlett hitting a walk off tomorrow? Go Rays!!
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April 26th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Good call with Clay and the necklaces — it looked like he a bicycle lock around his neck.
My favorite part of the game though was Aki’s bat flip after the homer. That was awesome. And weirdly timed with me getting a free shot at the bar.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:00 am
way too crunchy. i see that hair on a lot of women in movies from the 70s. and my generation likes to refer to those necklaces around Buchhy’s neck as a “Mr. T Starter Kit”.
Sweet Fancy Moses! How ’bout them Rays!
April 27th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Dang that’s a good night, Aki homers and a free shot. Two things that never happen to me.
I don’ think Mr. T would wear anything that didn’t “bling”!