| It's a tight one, with a Dustin Pedroia sac fly in the 3rd and an RBI single in the top of the 9th to give the Sox a bit of breathing room. Josh Beckett wins his 4th straight start, Daniel Bard takes the 8th and was going to stay in for the 9th with the extra Sox run but after an out and a single lefty Hideki Okajima takes over and retires Tigers lefties Curtis Granderson and Jeff Larish to get the save. The Tigers manager tried to get a bit of speed on the bases for the bottom of the 8th, and it ended up almost costly in the 9th. Ramon Santiago pinch-hit for shortstop Adam Everett, and speedy Josh Anderson came in to pinch-run for second baseman Placido Polaco. For the top of the 9th, that presented a defensive dilemma. Everett and Santiago are the only Tiger shortstops, and Polanco and Santiago are the only second baseman. With both Polanco and Everett now out of the game, Santiago took over at second and Anderson, an outfielder, took over at shortstop. He has never played a game at shortstop either in the minors or majors. With that ol' SS-5 e88 now out there, first batter of the 9th Kevin Youkilis rips the first pitch right to Anderson, who muffs it for the error. Mike Lowell advances Youk to third with a single, and Youk scores the unearned run on the single for Varitek. With the 2-0 final it didn't prove all that costly after all for Detroit after all, lucky for them. |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 2009 Boston Red Sox At 2009 Detroit Tigers 6/3/2009
Red Sox AB R H RBI AVG Tigers AB R H RBI AVG
D.Pedroia 2B 3 0 1 1 .244 C.Thomas LF 4 0 1 0 .220
J.Drew RF 4 0 1 0 .284 P.Polanco 2B 4 0 1 0 .237
K.Youkilis 1B 4 1 0 0 .313 D-J.Anderson PR,SS 0 0 0 0 .329
J.Bay LF 3 0 0 0 .237 M.Ordonez RF 4 0 1 0 .390
M.Lowell 3B 4 0 1 0 .257 M.Cabrera 1B 4 0 1 0 .310
D.Ortiz DH 3 0 0 0 .258 C.Granderson CF 4 0 1 0 .175
J.Varitek C 3 0 2 1 .221 J.Larish DH 4 0 1 0 .231
J.Ellsbury CF 4 1 1 0 .307 B.Inge 3B 3 0 0 0 .267
N.Green SS 3 0 1 0 .277 G.Laird C 2 0 0 0 .168
A-R.Raburn PH 1 0 0 0 .283
B-D.Sardinha C 0 0 0 0 .227
A.Everett SS 2 0 1 0 .279
C-R.Santiago PH,2B 1 0 1 0 .202
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Totals 31 2 7 2 Totals 33 0 8 0
A-Pinch Hit For Laird In 7th Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Raburn In 8th Inning
C-Pinch Hit For Everett In 8th Inning
D-Pinch Ran For Polanco In 8th Inning
Red Sox......... 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 2 7 1
Tigers.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 8 1
Red Sox (30-23) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA SCORESHEET
J.Beckett WIN(6-4) 7 6 0 0 0 5 0 100 2.63 A1 C8
D.Bard HOLD(1st) 1 1/3 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 4.50 C9 D4
H.Okajima SAVE(1st) 0 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6.23 D5
Totals 9 8 0 0 0 5 0
Tigers (23-28) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA SCORESHEET
A.Galarraga LOSS(2-3) 5 1/3 5 1 1 1 3 0 74 4.95 A1 C1
R.Perry 3 1 1 0 2 4 0 54 4.26 C2 D5
Z.Miner 0 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 0 10 5.09 D6
Totals 9 7 2 1 3 8 0
ATTENDANCE- 39,956 DATE- Wednesday, June 3rd 2009 TIME- Night WEATHER- Good
UMPIRES- Jeff Nelson, Mark Carlson, Tim Tschida, Bob Davidson
T- 2:50
LEFT ON BASE- Red Sox: 6 Tigers: 6
DOUBLE PLAYS- Red Sox: 1 Tigers: 3
ERRORS- N.Green, J.Anderson
DOUBLES- M.Cabrera(17th)
STOLEN BASES- D.Pedroia(6th), J.Bay(6th)
SACRIFICE FLIES- D.Pedroia
WALKS- J.Bay, D.Ortiz, J.Varitek
STRIKE OUTS- D.Pedroia, K.Youkilis-3, J.Bay, M.Lowell, D.Ortiz-2, C.Thomas,
M.Cabrera, C.Granderson, J.Larish, R.Raburn
GIDP- J.Drew, J.Varitek, C.Thomas
WILD PITCHES- R.Perry, Z.Miner
Catcher Jason Varitek had 2 base hits as the Boston Red Sox outscored the
struggling Detroit Tigers 2 to 0.
Boston took the lead for keeps in the top of the 3rd inning plating an
isolated run using 2 hits. That was all the offense they were to need.
Detroit was retired without difficulty in the bottom of the 9th.
Josh Beckett(6-4) allowed no runs in 7 innings, and picked up the victory.
Beckett got help from Hideki Okajima who was credited with his 1st save.
Armando Galarraga(2-3) was the losing pitcher.
The Boston ballclub's record now stands at 30-23. With the loss, the Detroit
ballclub's record is 23-28.
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