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Last Chance for the Rays…the Bottom of the 9th
In comes the Boston closer, Jonathan Papelbon with his patented stare.
First up is the scary rookie 3B Evan Longoria. This is the biggest at bat of the inning in my opinion. Longoria grounds out to SS Jed Lowrie. 1 out!
Boston is 2 outs away from forcing a 7th game once again!
CF Carl Crawford is up [...]
Boston Leads 4-2 Going into the Top of the 9th
RF Drew faces Bradford to lead off the 9th and hits a line drive to LF Crawford. 1 out.
LF Bay is 5 for 8 against Bradford in his career. He grounds out to the SS.
The Rays remove Bradford for Trevor Miller.
I’m not sure about this move. It doesn’t make much sense as Bradford has been [...]
Bottom of the 8th
New pitcher for Boston is rookie and former starting pitcher Justin Masterson.
SS Jason Bartlett is leading off the 8th down 4-2. He was hit by a pitch again. No outs, man on first.
2B Iwamura is 0-3 tonight. Masterson looks a bit nervous up there right now, but Varitek, with a 1-0 count goes out to [...]
Top of the 8th
CF Crisp faces Balfour and has a leadoff walk.
Manager Joe Maddon, probably this year’s manager of the year has just taken out Balfour, replaced by Chad Bradford, the knuckelscrapping submarine pitcher to face 2B Pedroia.
2B Pedroia faces Bradford with Crisp on 1B without any outs. Will Crisp take off to remove the possible DP? Pedroia [...]
Bottom of the 7th as Boston Leads 4-2
Willie Aybar is pinch hitting for DH Cliff Floyd, but he pops up in foul ground to 3B Kevin Youkilis. 1 out.
C Navarro is up and the count is 0-2 then he hits a towering pop up in foul ground to LF Jason Bay. 2 outs.
RF Zobrist flies out to the warning track in CF [...]
Top of the 7th as Boston Leads 4-2
RF J.D. Drew leads off and popped up for the first out.
LF Bay is hit by a pitch on the hip.
1B Kotsay is 1-3 in the game, a single in the second inning. He hits a high chopper to Howell, the pitcher and is thrown out at 1B. Bay moves onto 2B.
Howell comes out of [...]
Rays Half of the 6th Inning
Okajima is now pitching for the Red Sox. The Red Sox are leading 4-2
CF B.J. Upton and he lines out to 3B Youkilis. 1 out.
1B Pena, whos is hitting .350 with 3 HRs and 6 RBIs in this series is now up with 1 out. Full count. It was a late call, but Pena strikes [...]
Red Sox Half of the 6th Inning
Ben Zobrist stays in the game playing RF for the Rays!
1B Kotsay leads off for the Sox. What an amazing leaping stab by 2B Iwamura with that alligator glove of his! Wow! What a play! He has definately adjusted to his move to 2B as his whole career, even in Japan, he was a third [...]
5th Inning – Rays
The commentators are saying that Beckett is pitching in pain and is taking some extra time warming up before the start of this half inning.
C Navarro ropes a single to RF.
PH Ben Zobrist is hitting for RF Gabe Gross. Count is 1-2 then Zobrist pops out to CF and is now 0-3 this post season.
SS [...]
5th Inning – Boston
DH Ortiz, who’s hitting .143 with 1 HR and 3 RBI leads off…who hits Shields’ 91st pitch as a pop fly to LF. 1 out.
Youkilis lines out to the next rookie of the year, 3B Evan Longoria. 2 outs.
Drew hits another 2-out line drive double over the head of RF Gabe Gross.
Bay pops out to [...]
Bottom of the 4th Inning
Former Sox 1B and Northeastern University graduate from Haverhill, MA, Carlos Pena pops up to 3B Kevin Youkilis for the first out of the inning.
3B Evan Longoria flied out to CF. 2 outs.
LF Crawford is 0-5 after going 5 for 5 in a previous game in this series. On Beckett’s 54th pitch of the game, [...]
Top of the 4th Inning
Darrell Cousins, the home plate umpire has left the game due to injury. If there was ever a time for Ques Tec, now might have been one of those times.
I wonder if this delay will affect James Shields who isn’t pitching as dominant as he was earlier in this series.
This is ridiculously long! I feel [...]
Bottom of the 3rd
RF Gabe Gross leads off the Rays third inning. Beckett’s fastball is a few mph slower than usual, but he’s pitching well as Gross strikesout looking. 1 out.
SS Jason Bartlett is clipped by a pitch. Bartlett didn’t even attempt to get out of the way. He barely moved.
2B Iwamura, who struckout in the first. The [...]
Top of the 3rd
CF Coco Crisp leads off and is hitting .462 in the ALCS so far. Coco was a key part to the other nights second best comeback in playoff history. He had a bunt single in the first, but was picked off 1B soon after. The count is 2-2 and Crisp flies out to his counterpart [...]
Bottom of the 2nd
While TBS is recapping the missed first inning, I’d like to take this time to show my dislike of that 9 feet graphic when a runner takes a 9 foot lead from first base. What do you all think about this graphic?
Crawford grounds the first pitch he sees to Pedroia (2B). 1 out.
DH Cliff Floyd [...]
Game 6 in progress…
1st Inning
Due to technical difficulties, TBS has finally brought us the game, only to find the Sox on the field and after BJ Upton had hit a HR off the 3rd catwalk.
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Live Blogging ALCS Game 6
Hi everyone!
I will be live blogging tonight’s game 6 of the ALCS between the visiting Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays.
Tonight, we will see Tampa’s James Shields matching up against Boston’s Josh Beckett.
The Rays lead the series 3-2.
See you during the first inning!
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