Fool Wakefield 15 times shame on you, but fool Mr. Knuckle 16 times and shame on him. Start after start Wake would step up to the mound, do a hair under amazing, and lose the game because the Red Sox don’t believe in a margin for error. 3 runs a start? That’s not gonna cut it Timmy.
So last night Wake finally had an epiphany. He came to terms with his complete lack of run support and brought his A+++ game. Can’t get much lower that 0 earned. Now add that to the much maligned defense finally showing up for a game, and the win was in the bag.
There was just that small problem of…you know...scoring freaking runs. It wasn’t till the 6th inning that Papi solved the problem that is Silva and put one DEEEEP into the upper deck in the trash bag dome. Thank you Papi, take your seat cause that’s all we’ll need.
Coco and co tacked one more on in the 9th, but it was over by then. The bullpen bounced back from the debacle 3 nights ago and resumed its lights out hold on any batter past the 7th inning. Paps resumed his overpowering form and now all is right with the world. Perfect timing. If you don’t recall, over the last two years the Sox usually get their clocks cleaned in this place. Be it outfielders losing their limbs in center field or speakers robbing Ortiz of homeruns, Minnesota has always been a nightmare.
And it looks like that might continue today as our resident whack-job and 5th starter Julian “I never saw those knives before” Tavarez gets the honor of battling superstar ace Johan Santana. How do these match-ups keep falling out this way? First JT Killer vs Halladay then Wang now Santana? We certainly like our degree of difficulty. Come on reverse trap game!
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