^You need an updated picture of Youk with the badger on his chin.
Goooooooo Soooooooooox!
Safe travels.
DETROIT (AP) – Ivan Rodriguez’s two-out RBI single in the 13th inning gave the Detroit Tigers a 3-2 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night.
David Ortiz homered, doubled and walked four times – three intentional – for Boston, but the Red Sox left 12 runners on base and didn’t score after two first-inning runs.
While the Tigers avoided their 1,000th defeat to the Red Sox, they did lose All-Star second baseman Placido Polanco in the eighth inning to a strained ribcage muscle. His status is day-to-day.
Jonathan Papelbon (0-2) hit Gary Sheffield to start the 13th, and with one out, Sheffield stole second.
Carlos Guillen took a called third strike, but Rodriguez lined a 1-0 pitch into the right-center field gap, and the ball glanced off the glove of a diving Coco Crisp as Sheffield trotted home.
The game drew a crowd of 44,193 – the second-largest in Comerica Park’s eight-year history and the largest for a night game.
Neither starter got a decision. Detroit’s Jeremy Bonderman allowed two runs in eight innings, striking out nine, while Kason Gabbard gave up two runs in 6 1-3 innings.
Boston had several chances to go back in front, but couldn’t get a key hit.
kudos tigs
Laid off this thread for a long time but the time has come for our deliverance to the promised land GO SOX!!!1
not a sox fan to be found?
I’m rooting for them because they’re in the AL!
^^Can’t do it, sorry. Yankee loyalty prevents me from rooting for an arch-rival, even though I favor the AL over the NL anyday.
And since I really don’t have a dog in this fight, and because Boston is the stronger team on paper, I generally tend to go for the underdog, especially in the light of what the Rockies accomplished within the last few weeks of play. I embrace anything that goes against the odds, so I’m a Colorado fan in this series.
Besides, Ramirez, albeit a fine player, is probably the biggest douche ever to play the game, and I want to see him morbidly dejected after the last game. But that’s just me.
I don’t know about this, Bill.
Not defensively, anyway.
^I just went back to the regular season stats and Boston leads the rockies in almost every aspect. Am I looking in the wrong place? Just their pitching alone, all other things being equal, should prevail.
I believe I heard on “Mike and Mike in the Morning” this morning that the Rockies had the best fielding percentage this year. Unless I heard wrong, that means they don’t make mistakes.
Plus, Boston will lose their DH in Denver. Which means they’ll probably move Ortiz to 1B (a defensive liability) and Youkilis won’t even play.
Now I don’t buy into the whole “look what the Rockies did to the Sox during their interleague series” argument, but I do think that the Rockies are so high right now that they have more confidence than the Red Sox.
I don’t think there is any dispute the sox are the best team in baseball this year. Cleveland gave them a run for their money but the sox had it all year. The Rockies are meh and are overachieving right now. All the sox need to do is play their game, do their job and they will win the WS. The Rockies have to keep overachieving.
I’m really not going out on a limb here. This should be the Red Sox year. Question is whether the Rockies can continue to play like their pants are on fire or not. …or hope they see alot of Gagne. or not. A Gagne appearance means one of two things to the opposing team… you’re getting blown out or you battled the sox till the only one left is Gagne… in which case you win b/c Gagne is always good for atleast 3-4 runs ;D
Bill Simmons mentioned this about Eric Gagne before Game 4 of the last series:
“This seems like a good time to mention there are only five acceptable situations in which Eric Gagne should step on the field tonight: A 12-run blowout; a 20-inning game in which the Sox runs out of pitchers; a bench-clearing brawl; at the end of the game; and if the bullpen catches on fire and he has to jump onto the field to survive. Five and only five.”
Hilarious…
And death to the Sox. How are you supposed to start another curse if you keep winning. By the way, if the Sox DO win how many days will it be before you guys start whining about the Sox again…two? Maybe three? That might be pushing it. No matter what happens, I’m sure you’ll find a way to whine about something, Sox fans.
Go Rockies.
Stevo
::whines about Stevo calling sox fans whiners::
::throws rocks at bandwagon Rocky fans::
That whole whining thing only applies to whimpy, liberal, Mass sox fans… not NH, ME, VT sox fans… so there.
::sits back and admires politically incorrect post::
Yep. The Rockies saw Gagne tonight.
Looks like no contest. Boy is baseball so often about momentum, and that’s not to take anything away from the strength of the Sox.
I’m hoping the Rockies can at least mount a counter attack to make the series interesting, otherwise I’ll be asleep on my couch by 830 every night this week.
Yikes.
Boston jumped all over the Rockies last night. I thought it could get interesting when it was 3-1, but nope.
If the Rockies can rattle Schilling early tonight, then maybe they can steal a game before heading back to Denver.
^I wouldn’t bet on it. 
I’d be surprised anyway… this Rockies club is no Cleveland. Just look at their starting pitching. This guy pitching tonight, their #2, is a rookie, 4-4 w/ a 4+ era thru the season. Compare that to Carmona, a 19 game winner… the sox pounded him both starts. Anything can happen but Schilling is 10-2 in post-season… and clutch under pressure. This Rocky pitcher is green and untested… pretty much like the whole Rocky team.
The Rockies looked like a Little League team last night. And WOW Beckett is just phenomenal. Strikes out the sides to start the series. (Then Pedroia leads off the series w/ a homer) 9 k’s, 1 walk, which ball 3 was a strike, didn’t get the call. He’s incredible to watch.
So it looks like the Rockies aren’t going to be able to ride that wave that brought them here… that silly 21-1 record over the last month (21-2). They’re going to have to play some baseball. (Rockies gave up all of 8 runs in the whole nlcs, 13 last night).
This series is far from over and, as with the Cleveland series, anything can happen. Shit, this is pretty much how the alcs started and then Cleveland comes back for 3 straight wins so we’ll see. Rockies are going to have to take tonights game to try to put Boston off balance.
Go Tribe!