For once I’m not going to complain about leaving a ton of runners on base because they weren’t from the Sox! The Sox stole this one. You don’t normally give up that many baserunners, trail by two in the 8th on the road and pull out the victory.

Nancy, Tek and Papi deserve high praise in this one. Nancy tied the game up at one in the 2nd, and then singled and scored the winning run in the 9th. Tek used his intangibles to hit a line drive RBI double into the gap in the 9th, as opposed to right at Torii Hunter like everyone else. And Papi finally came through with a clutch HBP with the bases loaded in the 8th.

Masterson should have been CRUSHED. He had Helen Keller’s control and managed to only allow two runs in six innings. He loaded the bases with one out in the 1st, loaded them with two outs in the 2nd, and had runners at 2nd and 3rd with one out in the 4th yet only gave up two runs. Masty may be filling Dice-K’s spot in the rotation, but ignoring the strike zone and always working out of jams is not the best way to impress upper management. His new nickname might have to be Houdini.

Speaking of new nicknames, I came up for a new one for Lugo when he booted a ball to start the bottom of the 8th right after the Sox scored two in the 8th to tie the game up. He shall forever be known here at Dirty Watah as H1N1E6. He’s the swing flu but worse, the swine flu can at least catch.