If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries. [What is this?]
Game 94: July 9, 2008 Twins 5 L: Livan Hernandez (9-6) 50-41, 3 game losing streak Red Sox 18 W: Josh Beckett (9-5)H: Javier Lopez (9)H: Craig Hansen (7) 55-39, 3 game winning streak Highlights: The only Red Sox player not to get a hit or run yesterday was pinch runner Jeff Bailey. Boston attained their highest run total of the season thus far. The numbers were staggering. Crooked numbers littered the H column just as Brian Bass’s shards of self-esteem are scattered around the mound in Fenway.The recounting of slugfests are often boring to write. Every inning is peppered with action making it hard to extract the flavor of the game. This game was different thanks to a few oddball seasonings tossed in to lend a unique taste to this smörgåsbord of scores.From the start Josh Beckett wasn’t at his sharpest but neither was Denard Span. Perhaps Span’s looting of Red Sox hits to right field began to weigh on his conscience: he was caught stealing after earning a free pass. Despite the gift out, however, the Twins would score three runs in the first inning.Beckett had some latitude because of the hurler (using the term loosely) opposing...
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries. [What is this?]
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library’s Sports Temples of Boston.