A quick comment about Manny, Jenn. With that slam, Manny now has 21 career slams and holds second place in MLB history for number of career slams. The all time leader is in the Hall. You may have heard of him--guy named Gehrig; played first base for 2130 consecutive games for the Yankees (which also once was a record).
Now, moving on to Sox history, although our heroes lost again today, simultaneously ending their two game win streak and falling once again 2.5 games astern of the Stripes, history was made. When Jake stole his 43d base of the year, he moved into sole possession of the career record for steals for the Hose. The steal was Jake's 103d career steal, breaking the old record held by Jimmy Collins and a guy you also may have heard of: Duffy Lewis. Yup! Same guy as our blog is named for. Shows you how old the record was. Also, this is the second historical ref to ol' Duffy that we've had here in the past couple of weeks. That's baseball.
Regarding today's game, although everybody says Smoltzie's heater is still really good, if this keeps up much longer, Terry and Theo are going to have to do something fast before it costs us the post season. This on top of our hitters suddenly forgetting how to hit en masse, although LaRoche has made a pleasant intro for himself to the team.
One other Sox point. You may not remember him all that well, but we had another Hose left fielder enter the Hall today--Jim Rice. Only guy in MLB history to hit at least 35 HR's and get at least 200 hits in three consecutive seasons.
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