You know, Jenn, I hate to keep quoting Yogi on this blog, but as the bottom of the 9th began to develop, I was starting to experience a feeling of deja vu all over again. Here we were, via another excellent team effort, holding an 11-3 lead, the pen (Billy Wags and Saito) doing nothing but putting zeroes on the board and TOM comes on to finish up. Batter one: HR, 11-4. Batter two: HR, 11-5. Batter three: full count free pass; ditto batter four--and still no outs. All I could think of was the game earlier this year (June 30; O's 11,Sox 10) that we came from ahead to lose with a double digit score and a huge lead early in the game. Fortunately, Terry decided not wait any longer to see if TOM could retire anyone on this particular day, yanking him for Ramirez, who came in, threw 13 pitches and closed the door. Your father can take a deep breath and relax.
The evening's entertainment featured a less effective than normal, but still good enough Lester getting win number 14, the Sox collecting 17 hits, six of which were for extra bases, three of those circuit shots. Martinez extended his consecutive game streak to a career best eighteen and Papi had a pair of doubles and a sac fly to go with his RBI. JD added three hits, a HR and a two bagger among them and four ribbies. Bay was out with 'flu-like symptoms'--can't anyone just have the flu any more--but his caddy, Reddick, covered fine with a two run shot.
With the win, even though Texas also won, 3-2, the magic number for the Card drops below double digits for the first time this year. It's now nine, and counting. Mr. Hankie's Yankees, who lost on a two run walkoff by Ichiro last night, off Mariano, no less, cutting the division lead to six, are currently leading the M's tonight two zip in the 4th. While the odds of our taking the division are pretty long with just sixteen left, we still have a trey with the Stripes, so if they lost a few while we stay hot, welllll....
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