Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 22, 2007
Red Sox Win

The Boston Red Sox win 11-2 and are going to the World Series. Pedroia and Youkilis hit big tonight, combining to go six for ten with seven RBI and five runs scored. They each doubled and homered. The top four hitters in the Red Sox lineup each posted OBAs over .400 and slugging percentage over .500 in the series.

The bullpen pitched four shutout innings giving up four hits but no walks. Matsuzaka gets the win, making two nations happy today. Teams down 3-1 forcing a seventh game are now 11-4. The Red Sox accomplished the feat this year by outscoring the Indians 30-5 over the last three games. Six of the seven contests in the series were decided by four runs or more, although game two and seven were close until the end.

It was a great series, with both teams looking unbeatable at times. I have a lot of sympathy for the Indians, I would have loved to see them end their World Championship drought. However, we have the top team in each league in run differential meeting in the World Series. It should be a good one. Congratulations to the Red Sox on a great comeback and winning the AL pennant!


Posted by David Pinto at 12:00 AM | League Championship Series | TrackBack (0)
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Give Ortiz a cortisone shot right now.
Then he can recover by Wednesday.


Posted by: Joe in Philly at October 22, 2007 12:40 AM

"It was a great series..."

Was it, though? Game 2 was kind of exciting for a few innings, up until Gagne started the 11th, at which point they showed that even extra innings can be boring. Last night was briefly exciting, until Joel Skinner showed himself unfit to be a third base coach. Apart from those two games, the series never felt very close. In fact, for a series that went 7 games and had a team rallying from being down 3 games to 1, it was almost boring...

Posted by: matthew at October 22, 2007 08:19 AM
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