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The Boston Red Sox were looking behind themselves for the final weeks of the regular season as their poor run of form combined with a surging Tampa Bay Rays team teased fans of a final showdown. That night has arrived, with both teams tied in the American League wild-card race. As Cindy Boren reported:
Everything, and we do mean everything, is on the line tonight for the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays, who are thundering down the stretch, tied in their battle for the American League wild card.
For the Red Sox, a very special angst is gripping its jittery Nation. The team is 7-19 in September, the kind of swoon that, with a $161 million payroll, gets managers and general managers fired but is great news for Tums sales. The $43 million Rays, behind a three-run home run by Matt Joyce off the Yankees’ $10 million middle reliever Rafael Soriano, are loose — turning a triple play will also help do that for a team.
Boston pulled out an 8-7 victory Tuesday night with a vintage Sawx performance. There were four home runs — Yalie Ryan Lavarnway hit the first two homers of his career — and Erik Bedard, who has been pitching so poorly that his headlines are reserved for things like being served with legal papers by a guy in a Yankees shirt. He did about as well as you’d expect of a guy who’s won once since July. His line: three runs, five hits, three walks, 3 1/3 innings.
This final night of regular season baseball with real playoff implications is the dream of baseball fans, and four teams in a tie for two wild-card spots is sports at its best. As Tracee Hamilton explained:....READ MORE
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