Sox 10 Yanks 5
Red Sox take battle 14 to even the season series at 7 games a piece. Lowe “earned” his 14th win with a gutsy 6 ip, 5 run, 5 hit, and 3 walk performance. Sarcasm aside, the bullpen pitched well again, as the Yankees were held in check from the 6th inning on. Timlin again (yawn) pitched well. Scotty the Left flung at least 6 different kinds of curveballs in keeping the Yankees off the bases. As for Scotty the Right…at least he didn’t give up any runs.
Grady still made me scratch my head when he took Sauerbeck out in the 9th with Nick Johnson due up. Johnson is a left handed hitter. Sauerbeck was aquired to face lefties. Christ Grady, this isn’t rocket science! Williamson ended up walking Johnson, which is something that Sauerbeck could have done too. Oh well, every dark cloud has a silver lining, and every gold nugget has a speck of shit on it.
As for the Yankees, they really hacked at just about everything up there, with only Johnson, and Jeter looking like they had any semblence of an offensive game plan up there. Also, it was brought to my attention that Jose Contreras looks like Simon Adebisi from OZ. I have visions of Contreras wearing a wife beater, have a hat cocked on the back of his head, sniffing heroin, and raping in the shower. I think it goes without saying that Contreras is now my favorite Yankee.
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ab r h rbi bb k 2b 3b hr Nomar 5 2 3 2 0 2 1 0 1Jeter 4 1 2 0 1 1 1 0 0