Three weeks ago, they had a nine game lead over T-Bay in the American League wild card race, but have gone 5-14 in September.
In the opener of today's makeup day-night doubleheader (all players wear makeup) with the Orioles, Sox outfielder Darnell McDonald lost two fly balls in the sun. Two runs, one unearned, scored.
To atone for his fielding misadventures, he homered in his next at-bat. The Sox still lost 6-5, and their wild card lead was down to 1 1-2 games.
The loss reminded the fan of other ominous September losses that foreshadowed disaster; the Cubs-Mets black cat game of 1969, and when Chico Ruiz stole home against the Phillies.
A two-part meltdown was averted in game two, which the Sox won 18-9. In the Sox' seven run seventh, Jacoby Ellsbury hit an inside-the-park homer, and Conor Jackson hit a grand slam. The two feats have the research department (me) curious, re teammates who may have hit an inside the parker and a slam in the same inning (an inside-the-park slam counting as both).
As with the knothole in the board fence out by the nudist camp, I will have to look into it.
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