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Game 86: July 7, 2007 · 13 innings Red Sox 2 L: Jonathan Papelbon (0-2) 53-33, 2 game losing streak19-8-3 series record Tigers 3 W: Jason Grilli (3-2) 51-34, 4 game winning streak18-8-3 series record Highlights: Boston is now 1-5 in games over regulation. Kason Gabbard’s two walks in the fifth and the two-out rope to left by Craig Monroe to drive them in was not the downfall of the Red Sox. Leaving 12 men on base grounding into four double plays toppled the team. Every member of Boston’s relief corps should be given the opportunity to sucker punch a Red Sox hitter of their choice. Manny Delcarmen, Hideki Okajima, Mike Timlin, and Javier Lopez contributed all-out innings to hold the Tigers at bay while their batters squandered opportunity after opportunity. Yes, even Timlin, who pitched around ducks on the pond in the eleventh. Broadcasters like to equate series against two division leaders as heavyweight bouts. Such an analogy implies that blows are actually being landed. Last night’s contest was like a slow-motion quarterstaff match. The Red Sox played Daffy Duck to Detroit’s Porky Pig in that most famous of quarterstaff (or $1.25 staff) confrontations, the standoff in “Robin...
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