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Game 133: August 28, 2008 Red Sox 2 BS: Hideki Okajima (8)L: Justin Masterson (4-4) 77-56, 1 game losing streak Yankees 3 W: Mariano Rivera (5-5) 71-62, 1 game winning streak Highlights: Marvel at the Yankees and their disintegrating stadium. For the third straight game the Bronx Bromides tallied three runs, but this time that paltry production proved sufficient to upgrade this series from utter humilitation to moderate embarrassment. That deserves a few curtain calls and potentially a bronze monument in the Nouveau Stade Fasciste. Not only did I not want to write about this game that Jon Lester should have won but I also just bought a Wii. The latter cheered me up after the former. I had hoped Boston would complete the sweep and devastate the Yankees and their fans, but it was not to be. The mustachioed Jason Giambi played the villain with his game-tying two-run longball in the seventh and game-winning RBI single in the ninth.If Bud Selig had any sense of judgment, the extent of Giambi’s participation in this sport would equal that of Barry Bonds’s contributions this season. But the (somewhat less) bulky slugger continues to drag the lumber to the box, notch...
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Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library’s Sports Temples of Boston.