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Game 13: April 18, 2007 Red Sox 4 W: Tim Wakefield (2-1)H: Brendan Donnelly (2)S: Jonathan Papelbon (3) 8-5, 1 game winning streak2-1-1 series record Blue Jays 1 L: Tomo Ohka (0-2) 8-6, 1 game losing streak2-0-1 series record Highlights: A hat trick of home runs by Mike Lowell in the fifth, Doug Mirabelli in the sixth, and David Ortiz in the seventh. Papelbon notched his third of the young season but allowed a hit to Aaron Hill. Speaking of Hill, he played a huge role impervious shift against Ortiz. Hopefully Joe Maddon wasn’t taking notes on this game. Where’s all the hype for Tomokazu Ohka [大家友和]? The kanji in his family name mean “big house” and his given name means “friend of peace.” At one point in time I doubt Sun-Woo Kim would agree with such a name, but since their dust-ups in triple A they have supposedly buried the hatchet. Like Daisuke Matsuzaka he’s a Japanese right-handed pitcher, too, but unlike the highly regarded rookie Ohka switch hits. But there’s no uproar over the former Red Sox farmhand. His path diverges from the chosen one narratives typified by Hideki Matsui or Matsuzaka. Instead, he had sparked the...
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Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library’s Sports Temples of Boston.