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Rather than Josh Beckett’s dominant start (6 innings pitched, 4 hits, no runs, 2 walks, 9 strikeouts) the soap opera around Jorge Posada’s absence from the lineup was the hot topic in the Fox booth. While the Red Sox threatened to score in the first with runners on first and third and none out Joe Buck and Tim McCarver tittered like grandmothers over tea about the Yankees. The Red Sox hitters didn’t get on the basepaths again until the fifth inning. Perhaps they were spurred on by Sarah Silverman’s fourth inning visit with Buck and McCarver. The comedian talked about how she as a Red Sox fan isn’t used to being anything but a lovable loser. Silverman was as coherent as an LSD-addled Doc Ellis, exclaiming that steroids are wrong but lysergic acid is good once in a while as a treat. The real treat was Jacoby Ellsbury coming through with ducks on the pond in the fifth. Ellsbury’s two-RBI double somehow eluded Brett Gardner’s glove as it glided through the left-center gap. Were it not Jason Varitek at first it could have been a bases-clearing double. The real treat was Jacoby Ellsbury coming through with ducks on the pond...
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Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library’s Sports Temples of Boston.