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Baseball Musings
August 21, 2006
Sweep!

In a weekend of high scoring games, the Yankees and Red Sox saw a pitching duel between Cory Lidle and David Wells. Lidle posted six shutout innings, even though he walked five. David Wells went 7 1/3, leaving the game with one run in and a man on third, one out. Foulke game in to strike out two batters, but threw a wild pitch to score the run. That meant Wily Mo Pena's homer off Proctor wasn't enough.

Amazingly, the Red Sox were not able to get the game to Ortiz in the ninth. Loretta ended the game with a line drive that looked like it would fall for a hit when Robinson Cano reached out and snared it to leave Papi on deck.

I didn't expect a sweep. These teams have been so evenly matched for so long, I thought one team would take three of the five. But the Yankees bury Boston, leaving them 6 1/2 games out of first place, which gives New York the largest division lead in the American League. They won games early, they won games late, they came back from deficits, they won close and they won big. Boston has it's work cut out just to get back in the wild card race, which they trail by 4 1/2.


Posted by David Pinto at 04:13 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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Wow.
Resting Jeter (DH), Damon (late defensive replacement), Giambi (on the bench), Posada. And with Cory Lidle pitching, and Mo Rivera not.
A fitting final beat-down in a crushing series.

Long plane trip for both teams now, but it will feel a whole lot longer if your stockings are red.

Posted by: Jamie at August 21, 2006 04:30 PM

Interesting to see that the Red Sox are .500 vs AL teams. Ouch.

Posted by: sabernar at August 21, 2006 04:50 PM

The Red Sox are 1-13 in the last 14 games against teams not named "The Orioles".

Posted by: Jonah falcon at August 21, 2006 05:45 PM

Does anybody know the answer, or how to find the answer to this: How many 5-games series (against ANY opponent) have been played at Fenway since 1952. I keep hearing about how this is the first time they've been swept at home since then, but really, these things very rarely happen, don't they?

Posted by: Millions at August 21, 2006 06:35 PM
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