Red Sox 07 Game 50 Recap

Final

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Cleveland	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1		3	9	0
Boston	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	1	X		5	10	0

W: C. Schilling (5-2, 3.68); L: C. Lee (2-2, 5.86); SV: J. Papelbon (13)
HR: BOS: M. Ramirez (8), K. Youkilis (7).

► Hero - Schilling for 7 innings of 6 hit balls and only 1 run with 10 K's.
► Goat - MLB Rule 6.05(f)

Press pass for this game.

Game thoughts

Good hand for Trot, I was never a huge fan of Trot, in fact I am pretty much against any type of platoon players, but he did play his heart out in Boston and did deserve a nice hand. Glad to see it happen for him.

Schilling starts off the game by striking out the side in the first on 19 pitches. The Sox went down 1-2-3 with Youkilis taking a called third strike.

In the second Nixon singled after Martinez grounded out to Pedroia, Peralta struck out swinging, Dellucci singled with Trot going to third and Garko struck out swinging on 19 pitches. Lee had a six pitch 1-2-3 inning.

Schilling started the third inning by giving up a single to Barfield. This was followed by Sizemore being hit on an inside pitch with the count 1 and 2, trouble was brewing as Curt was close to 50 pitches and he hadn't even gotten an out in the third inning. Then on a 1 - 2 pitch Blake grounded into a double play started by Lowell that barely missed being an around the horn triple play. With escape from the inning in sight, Curt got out of the inning with one more pitch as Hafner grounded out to first.

Lee once again looked like he would have an easy inning as he got the first two outs, then Pedroia lined one to center and Lugo had a bunt single and it was two on with two outs. Crisp flew out to Trot to end the inning. So after three the game was still tied at zero.

The fourth was when the Sox finally put a run on the board. Youkilis led off the inning with a ground rule double, Manny moved him to third with with an out to center which brought up the yesterday's hero with a chance to put the Sox ahead for the first time in this game.

Drew delivered again with his own double between Dellucci and Sizemore. Mike Lowell then doubled to left and the Sox finally had some runs to work be comfortable.

Meanwhile Schilling continued to wheel and deal by putting down the Indians 1-2-3 in the fifth, his third time to do that and the second inning in a row. The Sox continued one of their trends this year by adding on a run off a shot by Manny into the Monster seats in the bottom of the fifth.

Schilling had a hiccup in the sixth when he gave up a run on a k, double, k and a single by Victor Martinez. That would be the last true threat that the Indians would manufacture while Curt was in the game. After the seventh Schilling was done for the night and it was good to see the good Curt show up in this game.

In the bottom of the seventh the Sox added on another run with K Youkilis inside-the-park home run to deep center, a standing up inside-the-park home run.

The eighth was not a good inning for the Sox bull pen. J Romero relieved C Schilling to start the game with the following results:

1. Sizemore walked
2. Blake walked
3. Lopez relieved J Romero
4. Hafner struck out looking
5. Martinez singled to center
6. Nixon hit sacrifice fly to center, G Sizemore scored
7. B Donnelly relieved J Lopez
8. Peralta grounded into fielder's choice to third.

In the bottom of the eighth Pedroia, who went 3 for 3 with a walk, doubled with two outs and Lugo added on by doubling down the right field line. Koplove was able to escape without any more damage when Youkilis grounded out to the pitcher after a walk to Coco.

It was Papel-bot time in the ninth, but it was anything but robotic though. Jonathan was wild to Dellucci walking him on 5 pitches. Garko doubled to left (a ball I thought Pena should have caught), followed by another double by Barfield.

Papel-bot bore down at this point and got a pop up just behind third, which prevented one more run. Blake struck out because of the goat of the day and Hafner then struck out for the fourth time of the game and it was Sox Win.

Chow!