Jost Beckett took the mound in the afternoon game today in Baltimore. Becketts keys to success is to maintain his fastball and use that nice 12:6 curve ball to strike out the batting competition.
Adrian Beltres bat needs to continue today, as he comes in hitting .345 with 10 RBIs. Beltre has a 8 game hitting streak coming into today's game, however the glove which he is known for is not as good as his bat is. Beltre took a horrible ground ball on Friday night, and the fundamentals of baseball did not play a factor in his role as he did not get in front of a ground ball that should have been a routine out; that resulted in a run that gave the O's the lead.
This afternoon was a good matchup between the pitchers. Both pitchers were solid through the first 7 innings with the game tied at 2. Varitek hit his 5th home run of the season to give the sox there first run of the game, then JD Drew followed up with his 3rd home run in this series to tie the game up.
With Youkilis out, and Martinez not starting the lineup was good an minimal. Bard came in to pitch the 8th inning, however, pitching with the bases loaded is not easy to do in any situation. Bard had 1 out and struck out Luke Scott and Nolan Reimold to get out of a jam. Papelbon came in to hold the tie into the 10th inning, but Weiters came in to hit a double to deep center and then Adam Jones came to the plate with 2 outs and Weiters on 2nd base. Papelbon got Jones to ground out to head to extra innings.
Papelbon and the bullpen blows it once again. Markakis who was walked in the 10th, advanced on a throwing error by Papelbon and Ty Wiggington hit a game winning RBI double to sweep the Boston Redsox, who dont deserve nothing. Boston just deserves to head to AAA and play the teams there. The Redsox just lost 3 in a row to the worst team in MLB.
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