Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 20, 2007
Nine Irons

The Red Sox are playing the short game, putting two men on without getting the ball out of the infield. Ortiz is up with men on first and second after two infield hits.

Update: Ortiz walks to load the bases. Manny must have cleaned his helmet a bit, since I can make out the B under all the pine tar.

Update: Nice job by Carmona, getting Manny to swing over a pitch low on the inside corner. One out.

Update: Lowell flies to shallow right on the first pitch, Pedrioa can't score. Two out.

Update: J.D. Drew just redeemed his season. Carmona fell behind 3-1, then Drew got all of a pitch down the middle of the plate, low enough that he could get a good upper cut on it. It was a laser into the camera well in centerfield, a grand slam to put the Red Sox up 4-0. Those are Drew's first RBI of the LCS.

Update: After a Varitek walk, Ellsbury grounds out to end the inning. Carmona was wild in the inning. On the other hand, he induced two ground balls to start the inning that his defense failed to turn into outs. In that sense, he did his job, the grounders were just well placed.


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