You know you are in trouble when the ace of your staff is a knuckleballer. Today Tim Wakefield fooled some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. Even though the Red Sox didn’t win it was not entirely Tim’s fault. Randy Johnson pitched well, but he was beatable and even though Manny smacked a couple of monster home runs, they never got the offense going against him. I think it was more the sputtering offense and stupid base running that doomed the FRS to an 8 to 4 loss.
At least Cleavland lost today too. That means that even if they lose tomorrow and the Indians win they will still have a shot at the playoffs. The 2 teams would play a winner take all game on Monday to see who will advance to the “real” playoffs as the American League Wildcard team.
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