Ah - the beauty of this year’s team is that even when the other side ties the game, it’s possible to remain calm. After all, someone’s going to step up. Often David Ortiz. (That’s part of why Ortiz has “only” 9 walkoff hits, which I know some people said seemed small: there’s no way to hit a walkoff hit in an away game…)
So how come Tito Francona doesn’t seem to know that Mike Timlin tends to let inherited runners on base come home? Ugh. (I say that, of course, not just as a Sox fan but as a person who’s had Timlin do very nicely for my fantasy baseball team.) Yeah, technically he let in only 1 earned run, but that was the Vernon Wells 3-run homer…
Meanwhile, Jon Papelbon was great. How good is it to see the revitalised Sox farm system produce?