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Originally Posted by sterlingice
It wasn't really a bad pitch.
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Lobaton off Uehara - baseball can be a funny game sometimes. (Lot easier to say when that walk-off made it 2-1 Red Sox instead of losing a series.) Overall, I'd say that was a pretty poorly managed game by both managers (I'm never a fan of pulling Ortiz for a pinch-runner in a tie game because it always comes back to bite us in the ass, pinch-hitting Johnny Gomes when you know he'll be intentionally walked and it'll set up Salty/Drew vs. a lefty instead of just letting Nava hit, and then we don't pinch hit Xander for Drew against a lefty, but instead pinch run him for Middlebrooks? There's a negligible difference in speed there), and as much as I'd love to complain about the strike zone, it was inconsistent on the outside corner for both teams, and the Red Sox benefited from a couple missed calls (Berry was definitely out at second, Ellsbury was probably out at 3rd although that one was very close.)