Sox: 4 Halos: 5
Well, that was five-plus hours of agony. Let me just say that post-season Beckett was AWOL tonight and '06/08 Regular Season Just Plain Average Edition Beckett took his place. Yeah, the ill-fated injured oblique might have played a role, but command eluded Josh tonight. Angels were all over the bases the five innings he pitched. There was no settling in after the first inning or so and the Halos backstop made him pay twice for poor location. Then there were the two non-plays at first. With this kind of start from the guy the Sox call their ace, I knew they were in for a long night.
As if the starting pitching wasn't enough of a momentum-killer, the offense flipped the OFF switch after Ellsbury's bizarre bloop bases-clearing single and Youk's RBI in the fifth. Just seven hits over 12 innings. SEVEN. The Halos had, what, SIXTEEN??? The Sox 'pen did all they could to keep the team in the game until the 12th, when Lopez couldn't fool the Angel bats and the blasted Rally Monkey any longer (Jeez, and I thought JD took care of that simpering simian on Friday night...). The Sox bats couldn't buy a clutch hit, especially o-fer-Pedey. What's up with Mr. Batting Title Runner-Up this series? Cat got his bat? Bay forgot to homer in tonight's game; instead he went hitless, taking a gander at strike three in the bottom of the 12th, leaving the game, the sweep, and the Red Sox' momentum in the hands of Alex Cora. Cora, as predicted, went down quietly and the Angels pulled off the upset, ending a streak of 11 straight post-season victories of the Sox over the Angels. The Halos are going to be fired up tomorrow. They've seized the momentum in a huge way and it's going to take something even huger from Lester to stop them from stealing the entire series. That and the Sox bats have to, for crying out loud, WAKE UP!!!! Have they forgotten they are at Fenway? Oh, and if I see one more Frank TV ad, I will run screaming out of the room.
LET'S GO RED SOX!!! WAKE THE BATS AND KEEP YOUR SEASON ALIVE!!!!
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