The Red Sox are betrayed by both in the third inning. Clement hits Jeter to lead off the inning. Then A-Rod hits a rocket to Renteria that instead of turning into a double play, winds up off the shortstop into left field. They try to get Jeter going to third, but the throw is late. They try to get A-Rod going to second, the throw beats Rodriguez, but Bellhorn misses the tag.
Mueller makes a nice play on a grounder by Sheffield, but Jeter scores. Then Matsui hits a 2-run homer into the right field seats for a 3-0 lead.
I noticed on the Matsui HR that it went out over an ad for a Japanese newspaper. I was listening to a sports radio show driving around this morning, and the hosts were wondering why the ad was in right when Matsui played in left. The want the ad seen where Godzilla homers.
Not to make too much of it, but looks like Jeter demonstrated his smart baserunning once again on in that inning
I don’t know why I should expect anything different, but
at 8:30 tonight I heard ESPN give out another whop-
ping piece of bad information. They show Jeter rounding
the bases on his walk-off home run in this afternoon’s
game, & the goon voice-over geek happily chirps that
this is “Jeter’s FIRST career walk-off home runnnnn!!!!”
The guys at ESPN routinely ignore or minimize post-
season performances. In this case, they forgot that
Jeter had a walk-off home run in game 4 of the 2001
World Series at Yankee Stadium. Thanks again for a
lousy job, ESPN.
the ad is for the Yomiuri Shinbun (Shinbun means newspaper). this is the parent company of Matsui’s old team in Japan, the Yomiuri Giants.