TNK - RED SOX FRANCHISE
GAME #2 (Pitching Matchup - Josh Beckett vs. Doug Fister)
The Red Sox strung together a double by Ortiz, a single by Sweeney and an RBI single by Saltalamacchia in the top of the 2nd inning to grab an early 1-0 lead. The Tigers answered in the bottom of the 2nd as they tied the game on an RBI single by Alex Avila but Beckett settled down and struck out Santiago and Jackson back to back to end the inning. Both Beckett and Fister got into grooves on the mound and the game was tied 1-1 after 6 innings. The game would go to the 8th inning tied at 1-1 and the Red Sox would get a couple men on as Saltalamacchia and Aviles singled with 1 out to bring up Jacoby Ellsbury, Darnell McDonald came on to run for Saltalamacchia and the Tigers would bring in Collin Balester from the pen to spell the end of the day for Fister who would leave after throwing 101 pitches. The Sox would grab the lead as Ellsbury drilled a single to RF and McDonald would just beat the throw to the plate to make it 2-1. Balester would get Pedroia to ground into an innning ending double play to escape further damage and we would move on to the bottom of the 8th with Boston leading 2-1. Beckett would remain in the game and the Tigers got a leadoff single from Jackson and Brennan Boesch followed him with a double to tie the game at 2-2. Beckett's day would come to an end after issuing a walk to Miguel Cabrera to bring up Prince Fielder with 2 on and nobody out as the Sox would bring in lefty Franklin Morales to face Fielder. Morales struggled to throw a strike and Fielder drew a walk to load the bases with nobody out and the Sox would turn to Mark Melancon to try and escape the jam. Melancon got Delmon Young to ground into a 6-4-3 double play but the run would score from 3rd base to give the Tigers a 3-2 lead. Ryan Raburn would fly out to end the inning as Melancon does a good job to get out of the bases loaded jam w/ no outs while allowing just 1 run to score. The Tigers would turn to Joaquin Benoit, Octavio Dotel and Phil Coke for the top of the 9th in a save situation instead of regular closer Jose Valverde and the Red Sox would go down 1-2-3 as the Tigers hold on for a 3-2 win to take the 1st two games of the season.
* The Red Sox will send Clay Buchholz to the mound against Max Scherzer in tomorrows game as they look to avoid the sweep.
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link href="http://dynasties.operationsports.com/css/osdyn.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td align="center" colspan="13">Boston Red Sox at Detroit Tigers</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="40%">Apr 7, 2012</td><td align="right" width="5%">1</td><td align="right" width="5%">2</td><td align="right" width="5%">3</td><td align="right" width="5%">4</td><td align="right" width="5%">5</td><td align="right" width="5%">6</td><td align="right" width="5%">7</td><td align="right" width="5%">8</td><td align="right" width="5%">9</td><td align="right" width="5%">R</td><td align="right" width="5%">H</td><td align="right" width="5%">E</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Boston (0-2)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Detroit (2-0)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">X</td><td align="right" class="active">3</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" colspan="13"><b>W:</b> Collin Balester (1-0) <b>L:</b> Josh Beckett (0-1) <b>S:</b> Phil Coke (1)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td colspan="5">Scoring Summary</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td colspan="3" width="84%">SCORING DETAILS</td><td align="right" width="8%">BOS</td><td align="right" width="8%">DET</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">2</td><td width="70%">Jarrod Saltalamacchia singled to LF (Ortiz scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">DET</td><td align="center" width="7%">2</td><td width="70%">Alex Avila singled to RF (Raburn scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">8</td><td width="70%">Jacoby Ellsbury singled to RF (McDonald scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">DET</td><td align="center" width="7%">8</td><td width="70%">Brennan Boesch doubled to LF (Jackson scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">DET</td><td align="center" width="7%">8</td><td width="70%">Delmon Young grounded into a 6-4-3 double play (Boesch scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#EE1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Ortiz (1)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Saltalamacchia (1), Ellsbury (2)<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Pedroia</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#001641" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Detroit Tigers</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Boesch (2)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Boesch (1), Avila (1)<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Avila, Young</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#EE1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Josh Beckett (L, 0-1)</td><td align="right">7.0</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">3.86</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Franklin Morales </td><td align="right">0.0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0.00</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Mark Melancon</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0.00</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Beckett - 95 Pitches / 62 Strikes (65%)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#001641" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Detroit Tigers</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Doug Fister </td><td align="right">7.1</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.45</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Collin Balester (W, 1-0)</td><td align="right">0.2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0.00</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Joaquin Benoit</td><td align="right">0.1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0.00</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Octavio Dotel</td><td align="right">0.1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0.00</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Phil Coke (S, 1)</td><td align="right">0.1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0.00</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Fister - 101 Pitches / 72 Strikes (72%)</td></tr></table></body></html>
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