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Game 39: May 17, 2007 Tigers 1 L: Zach Miner (0-1) 24-15, 1 game losing streak8-2-3 series record Red Sox 2 W: Julian Tavarez (2-4)H: Hideki Okajima (10)S: Jonathan Papelbon (11) 27-12, 1 game winning streak10-2-2 series record Highlights: Tavarez pitched a season-high seven innings even as he walked more (4) than he struck out (3). The mantra for 2007 is “Okajima in the eight, Papelbon in the ninth.” An odd mix of miscreants inhabited the stands for yesterday’s makeup game. Five rows down from my friend Matt and I there was a throng of extremely inebriated guys whose raison d’être was to stand at inappropriate times, raucously cheer for the most mundane of fly outs to the shallow outfield, and jeer at Gary Sheffield. (Actually, that last item should be on any true baseball fan’s “Things To Do” list, but it should be about the performance-enhancing drug allegations, not just because he is a former Yankee.) These must have been the kinds of fans Lee Elia ripped in his 1983 tirade on the mobs at Wrigley Field when he ranted, “That’s why they’re out at the f*ckin’ game. They oughta go out and get a f*ckin’ job and...
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Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library’s Sports Temples of Boston.