The Red Sox took two out of three against the Yankees over the weekend to put the Yanks back in last place. Friday night, Wang completely shut us down, pitched a two hitter and beat us 4-1. Papi went 0-3 and right now looks completely lost at the plate. JD Drew hit another home run and it seems he and Youk are the only two really doing anything offensively.
Saturdays afternoon game went a lot better as we beat them 4-3. Manny hit a home run and Okajima and Paps were lights out. I loved the rain delay right when Arod came up and Paps was still warming up. Paps came back 2 hours later and struck out Arod then struck out the first two batters in the ninth. On another note, Papi went 0-4 and lowered his batting average to .070.
On Sunday night, we got up early on Hughes and were up 7-1 before the game really got going. Dice-K was shaky again as he allowed 6 walks over 5 innings. I think when he plays these big games, he tries to paint the corners and nibble for strikes instead of playing his usual game. Anyway, he still got the win and we held on for a 8-5 win. Timlin looks absolutely horrible, he couldn't get anyone out, and almost allowed the Yanks to come back to take the lead. Timlins era is now 81.00. I don't think I have ever seen an ERA that high this far into the season. Lucky for us though, Arod went 0-5 and couldn't get anything done in any clutch situations. Yankee fans should come to expect that though.
Papi sat this game out to hopefully get back on track against the Indians tonight. We have a short 2 game series in Cleveland, then it is to the Bronx for another short 2 game series against the Yanks.
One interesting bit of news over the weekend was the Red Sox fan who was working on building the new Yankee stadium. He supposedly buried a Papi jersey in concrete under Yankee stadium to jinx the Yankees for the next 30 years. When the Yanks heard about this, they spent an entire day and a bunch of workers took jackhammers to where they thought this fan buried the jersey. Sure enough, after about 8 hours of digging, they uncovered the Papi jersey. Hank Steinbrenner said afterwards that he hopes his coworkers beat the (stuffing) out of him. In reply, the sox fan said that he invites Steinbrenner to try to do it and he hopes he brings Posada to help out as he hates Posada the most. I guess if I was a Sox fan living in the Bronx, it would cause me to lose my mind too. Actually, I probably would've done the same thing.
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Those crazy sox fans, is there any lengths to which they won't go in Yankee hating?-red sox wife
The Boston Red Sox jersey secretly buried under the new Yankee Stadium sold for $175,100 in a charity auction on eBay!!
The bid from Kevin Meehan, the owner of Imperialcars.com in Mendon, Mass., was the highest of 282 bidders for the battered No. 34 David Ortiz jersey.
“I actually thought it was going to sell for more money,” said Meehan, who bid only in the final moments of the weeklong eBay auction that ended at 12:30 p.m. “I have three young boys that I take to the games and they would have killed me if I didn’t buy the shirt.”
No THIS is a true Yankee hater! -soxboysmom
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