| Game 1 of the AL Division Series goes to the Cleveland Indians in agonizing fashion. Josh Beckett gets the tough luck loss as with two outs in the 3rd inning and runners on first and third, Manny Ramirez drops a fly ball which should have been the third out, scoring a run. Beckett gets unnerved and throws a wild pitch to the next batter allowing another run to score. Those would be the only two runs of the game. No earned runs for Beckett, no RBI's for the Indians. The Red Sox get 9 hits off of the tandem of C.C. Sabitha and Joe Borowski as Manny gets 3 of them to try to attone for the error, but the Sox couldn't knock anyone home and strand 11 on the basepaths. Kevin Youkilis could have tied the game with a 2-run homer, but due to being an W against the lefty Sabitha only gets a single. A chance for the Sox in the bottom of the 9th, as a Jason Varitek single with Alex Cora coming in to pinch-run, and a Coco Crisp single sends Cora to third with no outs. I had thought about trying a squeeze with Julio Lugo, but decided against it and Lugo strikes out. Dustin Pedroia hits a grounder to third and Cora can't advance for out number two, and Youk strikes out to end the game. If you are wondering why Cora came in to pinch-run, after Manny's third hit of the game Ellsbury came in to pinch-run for him, tried to steal second on a 1-19 chance, and gets caught when it came up a 20!! Game 2 starters - Fausto Carmona for the Indians and Daisuke Matsuzaka for the Red Sox. |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 2007 Cleveland Indians At 2007 Boston Red Sox 10/3/2007
Indians AB R H RBI AVG Red Sox AB R H RBI AVG
G.Sizemore CF 4 0 0 0 .000 D.Pedroia 2B 3 0 2 0 .667
A.Cabrera 2B 4 1 1 0 .250 K.Youkilis 1B 5 0 1 0 .200
T.Hafner DH 3 1 1 0 .333 D.Ortiz DH 4 0 0 0 .000
V.Martinez C 4 0 0 0 .000 M.Ramirez LF 4 0 3 0 .750
R.Garko 1B 4 0 1 0 .250 A-J.Ellsbury PR,LF 0 0 0 0 ----
J.Peralta SS 4 0 0 0 .000 M.Lowell 3B 3 0 1 0 .333
K.Lofton LF 3 0 2 0 .667 J.Drew RF 4 0 0 0 .000
F.Gutierrez RF 3 0 0 0 .000 J.Varitek C 3 0 1 0 .333
C.Blake 3B 3 0 0 0 .000 B-A.Cora PR 0 0 0 0 ----
C.Crisp CF 3 0 1 0 .333
J.Lugo SS 4 0 0 0 .000
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Totals 32 2 5 0 Totals 33 0 9 0
A-Pinch Ran For Ramirez In 8th Inning
B-Pinch Ran For Varitek In 9th Inning
Indians......... 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 5 0
Red Sox......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 9 1
Indians (1-0) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
C.Sabathia WIN(1-0) 7 7 0 0 4 7 0 115 0.00
J.Borowski SAVE(1st) 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 24 0.00
Totals 9 9 0 0 4 8 0
Red Sox (0-1) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Beckett LOSS(0-1) 7 4 2 0 1 8 0 113 0.00
M.Delcarmen 2 1 0 0 0 3 0 26 0.00
Totals 9 5 2 0 1 11 0
ATTENDANCE- 34,979 DATE- Wednesday, October 3rd 2007 TIME- Night WEATHER- Bad
T- 2:50
LEFT ON BASE- Indians: 4 Red Sox:11
DOUBLE PLAYS- Indians: 2 Red Sox: 1
ERRORS- M.Ramirez
DOUBLES- A.Cabrera(1st), K.Lofton(1st)
CAUGHT STEALING- J.Ellsbury
WALKS- T.Hafner, D.Pedroia-2, M.Lowell, C.Crisp
HIT BY PITCH- J.Varitek
STRIKE OUTS- G.Sizemore-2, A.Cabrera-2, V.Martinez, R.Garko-2, J.Peralta-4,
K.Youkilis, D.Ortiz-3, M.Ramirez, M.Lowell, J.Drew, J.Lugo
GIDP- F.Gutierrez, K.Youkilis, J.Drew
WILD PITCHES- J.Beckett
C.C. Sabathia(1-0) and Josh Beckett(0-1) treated the Boston fans to a fine
pitching duel at Fenway Park. The Cleveland Indians eventually emerged as
victors over the Boston Red Sox by the score of 2 to 0.
Sabathia pitched well for Cleveland in their victory. He went 7 innings
allowing 7 hits and 4 walks. After the 3rd inning, neither team was able to
score.
Joe Borowski earned the save, his 1st.
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