Uehara Picks--Sox Even Series!

Well, this makes two consecutive sudden heart stopping endings in this Series! After last night's debacle, the Sox had to come away with a win. To complicate matters for the team, Bucky, tonight's starter told John Farrell before the game that he wasn't feeling totally right and had "one more start" left in him. So, he went to the mound to try and give the Sox as many innings of good pitching as possible, with as little damage as possible. He did all that and more! Although he lasted just four innings, he allowed a lone unearned run in the 3d after an error by Jake in right center trying to field a St. Lou hit. Other than that, he limited the Birdos to a total of three hits and a like number of freebies, balanced against a pair of K's.  The Sox pulled even in the 5th on a leadoff double by Papi, followed by a pair of passes and a sacfly from Drew to knot the score.
Meanwhile, Doubront, already having pitched last night, came on to pick up Bucky and went 2 2/3 innings, at one point retiring eight straight Cards batters, while only allowing a single run. He also grabbed three K's, and ended up the man with the W on the evening. His WHIP on the evening was an incredible 0.375. When you add in tonight's performance to last night's, the man has done an awesome job!  Other than the one double that led to the lone run he surrendered, he was virtually untouchable. When he finally became touchable, Tazawa came on and slammed the door on any further Cardinal activity for the moment--inning over!
However, before all of this happened, the Sox turned things around offensively in the 6th. Two men on, Gomes comes up, not yet having a hit in the Series. Even the team unbeaten streak in playoff games he starts ended last night at seven in a row. What to do?! Start a new streak! What else! On a 2-2 count, he takes aim, swings and drives the ball on a high, no-doubter arc off the back wall of the Sox pen--Sox, 4-1! An inning later, after Dubront and Tazawa finish, the score is still in the Sox favor, but now 4-2. Lackey, in his first relief appearance since 2004, and no, not for the Sox then, comes on and throws a perfect inning. End of 8th and still 4-2, Sox. After the Sox finish their half of the 9th, Uehara comes on and quickly sandwiches a pair of outs around a deep single by last night's winning run scorer of the Cards. Then, the Cards baserunner is replaced by a very good baserunner, Wong. The man has great speed and is very tough to throw out on a steal. Solution? Simple if you're Koji Uehara. Pick him off! It all happened so fast that the pickoff was done and the inning (and the game) was over before you could even fully grasp the fact! The replays clearly showed how good Koji's move had been though. Usually, a successful pickoff is a matter of inches. In this case, Wong was nailed a good foot and change off first when the tag was artfully applied by Nap. I'm not sure if a Series game has previously ended this way, but if it has, you can be certain it hasn't happened very often. 
With the game in hand, the Sox have now regained the home field advantage and are even in the Series at a pair of games apiece. A win tomorrow would leave them in the same place they were after Game five in Detroit in the ALCS--and wouldn't that be sweet!