The Streaks Continue!

The Streaks Continue!
Well, since Game 2 in Yankee Stadium, when the Sox had their longest string of YS success since 1939, they played the last game of the series there and--WON AGAIN! This means that the Sox have now won six in a row in YS for the first time ever. Their other streaks, six games overall and seven in a row over the Stripes obviously continue unbroken. Last night's game was one that I had thought would never get started due to a 3 hour plus rain delay at the start. When it got to 7:30 pm here on the left coast, I figured that's 10:30 pm in My and that would mean a finish, barring long innings or extra innings of at least 1:30 am (as it turned out, it was closer to 2 am), and that wasn't going to happen. Wrong! So the Hose, again with a team effort, backing JB's excellent pitching (after the 1st inning) won the series finale 8-3. JB gave up the first two Stripes runs in the 1st, then shut the team down. However, CC was pitching for the Y's and doing just fine--only a single hit through six. However, this game, barring rain, is played for nine innings and in the 7th, Papi led off with a single. This was his first response to being hit by CC a few innings earlier. When next he stepped to the plate, it was still the 7th, and he finished off the seven run inning he'd begun with his single by driving in more with a solid, ringing two bagger. The teams finished out with each adding a single run in the 9th, final being 8-3. The Dustman missed the game for an exam of his knee in the Hub, an injury that he sustained a little while ago against the Birds that has been hurting him and his plate work. Fortunately, surgery is not necessary for now.