Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 10, 2008
Bottom of the Ninth

The Red Sox go quietly in the ninth. Crawford, Floyd and Navarro will try to get something going against Jonathan Papelbon.

Update: Crawford swings and misses three times and goes down on strikes. He had no chance of catching up to Papelbon's pitches.

Update: Floyd gets ahead 2-1 but pops up to third base. Two down. The game belongs to Navarro now.

Update: On a 1-2 count Navarro swings at a pitch in the dirt and the Rays lose 2-0.

Both starters pitched very well. Matsuzaka got into trouble in the first, but Upton just missed a pitch. Later in the game, Longoria and Pena each got the green light with men on and a 3-0 count, and both missed squaring up the ball. Great job by Dice-K and the bullpen getting outs on pitches out of the strike zone tonight.

The Red Sox win back the home field advantage, just as they did in the ALDS. So far, their regular season results against these teams hasn't translated to the post season.

The Rays have shown a great deal of resilience in the playoffs so far. We'll see if they can come back for a win tomorrow.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:53 PM | League Championship Series | TrackBack (0)
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Good split from Pap to get Navarro - where's that been all year

Posted by: bandit at October 11, 2008 08:50 AM

In the old days, only batters like DiMag, Ted, Willie, Stan & Hank & few others got Green Light on 3-0 & they earned right to it. Now almost anyone gets to swing. Pena's was bad, the 3 balls before never came close to being strikes.
Balfour's HP on Drew was bad, you don't throw up there. That HP may light a spark in Sox.

Posted by: Bob S at October 11, 2008 11:45 AM
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