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Message #: 24842
Despite HAL zeroing in on the hits on Boston's pitchers, the Sox manage to come back and split the series with the Twinkies. game 1: Boston rolled an endless stream of 4-10,5-10 and 6-10 it seemed (of course the hits were on the low end). Meanwhile Twins got 2 6-5 rolls in the first that helped them to a 3-0 lead. Sox battled back with 3 in the 4th, the last 2 on a Demspey double (he tried to advance on a 1-1 chance to ensure the tying run scored). Stayed tied until the 8th. A single then hit and run single put men on the corner with no one out for the Twins. Stanley got one out before being pulled. Drew Hall came on and didn't walk anyone. Of course, he did allow an x play single (batter out for rounding too far) that plated both runners before the 3rd out was recorded. That was huge as the Sox got one in the 9th but Reardon closed it out without further damage for his 11th save. game 2: This time in was 2 5-7 rolls in the first that produced a run in the Twins first. Greenwell homered to tie it in the 2nd but Twins got 2 in the third to go up for good. They added needed insurance runs in the 4th and 7th. Boston made a game of it when Boggs had an rbi triple and scored on a sac fly in the 8th. Reardon closed this one out with no problems, rolling 3 straight 5-7's in the 9th. game 3: Ron Kittle's 2 run homer in the 7th gave Boston a 4-0 lead and the only suspense left at that point was Boddicker's no hit attempt. He allowed just a hit batter in the first 6.1 innings before consecutive hits on 5-10 (homer), 5-8 (single) and 6-8 (single) got things interesting again. Knudson allowed a 9th inning run but got credit for his 5th save. He allowed a 4-4 double and an x play single so all 5 Twins hits came off Boston pitcher's cards. game 4: Red Sox wasted no time jumping all over Blyleven. The top 4 hitters in the lineup went 9-10 with 6 runs and 10 rbi. Greenwell hit a 3 run homer in the first and Boggs close it out with a 3 run homer in the 6th to chase the future HOF'er. Meanwhile Mahler was allowing base hits but keeping the Twins off the board. Twins finally got on the board in the 7th. In the 8th Stanley was charged with his 3rd run on the series (all actually given up by his pen mates) when Hall came in with 2 outs and 1 on and gave up a single, walk,walk before getting the 3rd out. Sox went on to win 10-2. Just over 1/3 of the way through the season, Boston is hitting .292 as a team. They are 2 runners short of averaging 8.5 LOB a game (on pace for about 1370 for the season). That is with hitting into 1.25 dp/game (70 in 56) as well. The roughly 80 SB they are on pace for would be the 2nd most ever for the SMILEY Red Sox too. Randolph continues to toy with the .400 mark, sitting at .391 now (he has 28 multiple hit games on the season). 4 of the top 5 slots in the lineup are averaging .325 or better for the season. Wade Boggs has gone on a 6 game hitting streak to get his average up to .228 for the season. |
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