Jenn, if the last three games made you sick, you'll be in the ER and on life support after tonight's ugly. I tell you, it's not often that you outhit the other team 11-5, out extra base them 5-1 and still lose. Not often except when you make two errors (originally three, but the official scorer later changed one) give up a passed ball and have two wild pitches from your starter. That's the capsule explanation of tonight's abortion. In spite of this, the patchwork crew that Tito has cobbled together still made a game of it late, and came within one or two base knocks in the 9th of taking the game. We had a pair of runs already in, getting us within two, McDonald was on 2d with a double, Papi had just walked and there were two outs with Yooouukk coming to the plate. Normally, this is where he thrives. Tonight (and he's not using the ankle as an excuse--I am) he lined out hard to center, completing an 0-5 evening. Game over; series sweep to the Rays. The deficit to second in the division grew to 2.5 games, and the gap to the Stripes awaits tonight's play against our opponents of a few weeks hence, the A's.
McDonald was 3-5 with a two bagger and Cameron was a perfect 3-3 with a homer. Papi got his 55th ribbie and now is the latest Sox player with at least 20 doubles on the season. Still not enough.
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