Jonathan Papelbon IS human after all. Unfortunately, not only did he give up his first runs of the season, but they were in the form of a game-tying 2-run homer by Jason Buck of the Oakland Athletics. His first blown save of the season also gave the A's a chance to win it in extra innings which they did with back-to-back doubles by Mike Piazza and, er, whoever came next in the lineup to lead off the 10th inning. Enter Oakland closer Huston Street and he accomplished against one of the best lineups in baseball what the most dominant closer in the game today couldn't versus a rookie hitting around .200. Injustice prevails once again...
But then the Red Sox do once AGAIN lead the league in runners left on base and are AGAIN near the bottom of the league in clutch hitting and hitting with RISP. That can't continue if this team hopes to continue to build their division lead.
Unfortunately, the A's have again come from multiple runs behind tonight to take the lead late in the game - let's hope our offense can pick up that pitching staff like I mentioned in an earlier post. So far they're coming up empty.
#3 on the way and other musings
15 years ago
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