Wow. When I was writing my preview, I had the premonition that this game would be won and lost by the bullpens. I just didn’t realise it would be bottom-of-the-9th, 2-out heroics. Next time I get gut feelings like that, I’m printing them. Now, who thinks Bellhorn Ks too much? He’s one shy of the strikeout record (Butch Hobson had 162 in 1977), but that just means he works the counts and gets the OBP… heck, you can’t be a truly awful hacker to get a strikeout record, because the manager would’ve yanked you from the lineup long beforehand.
Anyway, Foulke got the extremely cheap win today, which goes to show only that them’s the breaks. As I’ve always said, I’d take lucky over good when it comes to the Sox. Up till then, it was an awesome pitching duel, Lopez always brings his A game to the Sox and Schilling responded in kind. 14 Ks! The man’s a horse, no doubt. Francona’s management of this game was solid, even if McCarty as PH instead of Mirabelli was a bit of a headscratcher. But it don’t matter… (Radio DJ voice) Coming to you from Boston, it’s the Standells with their 1966 hit single, “(I Love That) Dirty Water”!
Edit: added some comments and the pic.