Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Game 131: Appointment on Showdown Street

With time growing short on the 2009 baseball season, Boston pulled into Tampa Bay to try and take out the Tampa Bay Naughty Fish, thus clarifying the playoff picture a bit. They took one step closer tonight with an 8-4 win, Jon Lester pitching 6 fine innings while his mates stomped poor Andy Sonnanstine for 5 runs over four innings. New friend Billy Wagner pitched another scoreless inning, and when the Okey Doke gave up a couple of counters to tighten the score a tad, the Lord of The Dance came in to lock down a rare 2 inning save.

Jason Bay, JD Drew, and Kevin Youkilis homered, and Jacoby Ellsbury chipped in with a triple and two tremendous catches in center field. Boston ends the day 3 1/2 games in front of the Rangers and 6 full games ahead of the Rays for the wild card slot.

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