| One month ago on June 10th, the Red Sox sat in third place in the AL East 10 games behind the division-leading Blue Jays with the Rays in between the Sox and Jays. Since that time, the Sox have poured it on and coming into today have gone on a 22-4 run and passed Tampa for second and closed the gap to half a game behind Toronto. With a BlueJays loss today, a win for the Sox would put them in sole possession on first place for the first time this season and it looked possible with the 4-11 Livan Hernandez on the mound for Minnesota. However, Sox starter Josh Beckett has his worst start since his first start of the season allowing 5 runs including a first inning 3-run homerun for Jason Kubel to drop the Sox into a 5-0 hole after 5 innings. They do finally get to Hernandez for 2 runs in the 6th and get one more run in the 8th inning, but it isn't enough and Beckett falls to 5-8 for the year and the Sox remain half a game back. Pain in that 8th inning though, as Brandon Moss came to the plate with two outs and 2 runners on base, but on a ballpark homerun chance the split comes up a 20 for a long fly out instead of a game-leading 3 run homerun. Doesn't matter where you are and even on the moon a 20 split card ballpark homerun would have still been an out! |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 2008 Minnesota Twins At 2008 Boston Red Sox 7/9/2008
Twins AB R H RBI AVG Red Sox AB R H RBI AVG
D.Span CF 5 0 2 0 .275 J.Ellsbury CF,LF 3 0 0 0 .321
A.Casilla 2B 4 1 1 0 .237 D.Pedroia 2B 5 0 2 0 .289
J.Mauer C 4 1 2 0 .355 K.Youkilis 1B 5 1 1 0 .331
J.Morneau DH 4 2 2 1 .289 M.Ramirez LF 4 0 1 0 .302
J.Kubel RF 4 1 2 3 .279 B-C.Crisp PR,CF 0 1 0 0 .282
D.Young LF 3 0 1 1 .256 M.Lowell 3B 4 0 0 0 .280
M.Lamb 1B 4 0 0 0 .211 S.Casey DH 3 0 2 1 .356
N.Punto SS 4 0 1 0 .273 A-J.Drew PR,DH 1 1 0 0 .279
B.Buscher 3B 4 0 1 0 .203 J.Varitek C 3 0 3 2 .219
B.Moss RF 4 0 0 0 .179
J.Lugo SS 4 0 3 0 .333
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Totals 36 5 12 5 Totals 36 3 12 3
A-Pinch Ran For Casey In 6th Inning
B-Pinch Ran For Ramirez In 8th Inning
Twins........... 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 - 5 12 1
Red Sox......... 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 - 3 12 0
Twins (39-52) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
L.Hernandez WIN(5-11) 5 2/3 8 2 2 1 0 0 94 7.41
M.Guerrier HOLD(7th) 1 2/3 2 1 0 0 1 0 20 6.00
J.Nathan SAVE(22nd) 1 2/3 2 0 0 0 1 0 29 1.86
Totals 9 12 3 2 1 2 0
Red Sox (58-36) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Beckett LOSS(5-8) 6 9 5 5 1 4 1 100 3.81
M.Delcarmen 1 1/3 1 0 0 1 1 0 21 2.56
H.Okajima 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 22 4.29
J.Lopez 0 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 1.97
Totals 9 12 5 5 3 7 1
ATTENDANCE- 32,441 DATE- Wednesday, July 9th 2008 TIME- Day WEATHER- Average
UMPIRES- Angel Hernandez, Eric Cooper, Marty Foster, Derryl Cousins
T- 3:02
LEFT ON BASE- Twins: 8 Red Sox: 9
DOUBLE PLAYS- Twins: 2 Red Sox: 2
ERRORS- A.Casilla
DOUBLES- D.Span(5th), J.Mauer(25th), J.Morneau(32nd), D.Young(12th),
D.Pedroia(25th), K.Youkilis(25th), M.Ramirez(21st), S.Casey(11th),
J.Varitek(15th)
HOME RUNS- J.Kubel(11th)
SACRIFICE HITS- J.Ellsbury
SACRIFICE FLIES- D.Young
WALKS- A.Casilla, J.Mauer, J.Morneau, J.Ellsbury
HIT BY PITCH- J.Varitek
STRIKE OUTS- D.Span, A.Casilla, J.Kubel, M.Lamb-2, B.Buscher-2, K.Youkilis,
B.Moss
GIDP- J.Morneau-2, J.Ellsbury
WEB GEMS- Top 4th: Jacoby Ellsbury robbed Brian Buscher of a Homerun!
Jason Kubel hit one over the fence and had 3 RBI as the Minnesota Twins
outscored the Boston Red Sox 5 to 3.
Livan Hernandez(5-11) pitched well enough to earn the win. He surrendered 8
hits and 1 walk in 5 and 2/3 innings. Both teams finished the game with 12
hits.
Joe Nathan gained credit for his 22nd save. Josh Beckett(5-8) was tagged with
the loss. He gave up 5 runs and 9 hits in 6 innings.
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