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It was a double-whammy.
The Red Sox blew an opportunity in the bottom of the seventh inning, first with Jacoby Ellsbury flying out to right field (a run scored) on a hittable pitch in the middle of the zone with two men on and no outs. And then Pedroia hit into an easy double play, 6-4-3.
About 10 minutes later Rocco Baldelli became the fourth Rhode Island native to hit a home run in the postseason (Davey … continued »
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Welcome to Pedroia Island.
The Red Sox second baseman is doing it alone here through five innings.
He has come up three times and doubled, singled and walked. David Ortiz came up after him each time and flew to right, popped up to shortstop and popped to short center field.
Ortiz has some company. The guy in front of Pedroia, Jacoby Ellsbury has flown out to all three outfield positions.
Pedroia was part of the game’s best defesive … continued »
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Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is here but his alter ego, Big Papi, apparently is still incognito during the playoffs.
Ortiz flew out to right field with one out and Dustin Pedroia on second base in the first inning. Then he popped out to short with Pedroia on first base (one out) in the fourth inning.
Thus far in the playoffs he has four hits in 25 at bats and … get this … one RBI, which … continued »
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You want to know the play that best exemplifies the Sox-Rays game thus far (The Rays lead 5-0 in the fifth inning)?
After Carlos Pena bunted successfully against the shift — he put it toward third and Kevin Youkilis was basically playing shortstop — and then B.J. Upton was thrown out by Youkilis at second base after feigning the throw to first, Pena stole second off Jon Lester.
And Varitek didn’t even throw it.
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After getting through the first inning throwing four pitches, Jon Lester threw 50 pitches over the second and third innings.
Ouch!
Byrd is no longer warming up, which means Lester will be there as long the Sox can make it close. If he were to give up another run or two, you could expect an early exit from him.
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Paul Byrd is warming up. The game isn’t even an hour old (still) and Evan Longoria just hit another towering homer off a Jon Lester fastball.
It’s Longoria’s fourth home run, tying a major league record for homers by a rookie in the post-season with Miguel Cabrera when he was with the Florida Marlins in 2003.
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