Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 27, 2007
The Long Save

J.J. Putz retired the last five Red Sox batters of the game to pick up his twenty second save of the season. It was the sixth time this year Putz pitched more than one inning to earn a save. Only David Weathers with seven has more long saves than J.J.

No one else is really close. Embree, Rivera, Gregg and Janssen all have three. (Janssen is a middle reliever who sometimes finishes games.) Putz came into a tough situation last night with runners at first and third and one out. He did allow a sacrifice fly to cut Seattle's lead to one, but he could afford to trade the out for the run. Note, too that George Sherrill came in one batter earlier to get the lefty, and responded by striking out Big Papi. He doesn't get a save, but that was a big strikeout in a pressure situation.


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