“Jonathan Papelbon was sick, so we were going to stay away from him,” manager Terry Francona said. “We tried to make some things reach but it didn’t end up reaching.”
Jon Lester… suffered a bruised left ankle that undoubtedly hampered his effectiveness.
“I just looked at the video,” Delcarmen said. “The pitch to Wigginton was away, and he just got his bat out there.
Darin Erstad followed by lining a pinch single (“A hanging curveball,” said Delcarmen),
“Berkman just sat back on my changeup,” said Delcarmen, who was last reached for a run May 24. “You mislocate pitches and they’re going to hit them.”
“We made some mistakes out over the plate and about paid for every one of them,” Francona said.
“It (stinks) because I thought I threw the ball better than the (pitching) line (shows),” Lester said. “I thought I threw the ball a hell of a lot better than what the score said.”
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Or you could say that the Astros have some good hitters and they can hit the good pitches as well as the bad ones. A Red Sox Nation booster (sometimes called a reporter) sums up the comeback this way,
Lance Berkman, who had been tied up in knots by Jon Lester in whiffing his first three at-bats, sliced an opposite-field, two-run double to climax an improbable comeback.
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Yep, Berkman hitting a double is all kinds of improbable. But finally, a little credit,
“You’ve got to tip your hat to Loretta,” said Lester. “He was looking middle in right there and I threw the ball there.
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Tip of the hat, finally, is that so hard?