Handed a 4-2 advantage, the Dice Man promptly gave it right back to the Jays at the Rogers Centre today , giving up 1 in the fourth and then 2 in the sixth for a 5-4 deficit. Coco Crisp (?) (!) homered to tie in the seventh, and then Farmer Jed Lowrie manned up and clouted a homer to right to give Boston a 6-5 lead in the 11th. Now Metropolitan District Commission is on to try and save it, Boston having already spent their Papelbullet.
MDC walked Wells to open the inning, but has retired Lind and Overbay, so we're one out away from a desperately needed win.
In the mixed blessing department, Tampa is tied with Chicago in the fifth, and in the unmixed blessing department, Minnesota leads the Angles in the fifth .
MDC retired former Pirate and current Guy With a Pitcher's Name Jose Bautista on a swinging strikeout to end it, so we can, as they say, put it on the board. Yes.
Watching games via Gamecast is torturously slow-like watching really important paint dry.
If you told me in April that a crucial August game was going to unfold with a left side of the infield of Lowrie and Alex Cora, and an outfield of Crisp, Ellsbury, and Jason Bay, I would have told you to lie down because you obviously aren't well.
Dice K obviously gets a well deserved no decision here, and thus his record of the highest winning percentage in one season in Red Sox history of a pitcher with 15 or more decisions remains tied with Bob Stanley(1978), at 15-2 (.882). With his next win, he will own the record, assuming he doesn't lose again.
Of course, anything associated with 1978 gives chills to any Red Sox fan.
Nice game wrap-up.
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