Lugo and Manny save the day
How about that - the Sox have come back against the Tribe at the Jake. They were looking anemic against Jake Westbrook and the Indians bullpen when all of a sudden Joe Borowski went all Farnsworth. Lugo cracked a double, Crisp bunted him over, Peds sac flied him in. Then it was bloop-and-a-blast time, with Ortiz the blooper (two hits - slump over?) and Manny the blaster.
My wife-to-be, Sam, who absolutely loathes baseball, made an interesting comment about Manny's home run. The ball went into the crowd, off a fan's hand and down a stairwell. Imagine, Sam said, if some guy was carrying three $12 beers and got whacked with that home run ball?
To be more accurate, she referred to the stairwell as an "alcovey thing."
Papelbon is in the game and he's about to close it out. Loud out by Pronk and it's over!
Mad props to my former coworker Dennis Maffezzoli, Rays reporter at the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune, who no doubt covered the Yanks' lucky win down in Tampa Bay tonight.
--Whittle