* I don't know what happened to my previous posts from the 1st two games of the series, but the teams split the 1st two games and the series is tied 1-1 as the series shifts to Seattle for game 3 & 4
TNK - BOSTON RED SOX FRANCHISE
AMERICAN LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES (Game #3) – Boston Red Sox @ Seattle Mariners
Pitching Matchup – Clay Buchholz vs Felix Hernandez
The Red Sox jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the 4th as Jarrod Saltalamachia smacked a 2-run bases loaded double to give Boston a 2-0 lead and Will Middlebrooks picked up an RBI on a ground out to make it 3-0. Seattle got a run back in the bottom of the 4th but the Red Sox answered right back in the top of the 5th with an RBI single from David Ortiz to make it 4-1. The score remained 4-1 until the top of the 9th when Stephen Drew provided some insurance with a solo HR to RF to make it a 5-1 game. The Mariners got a run in the bottom of the 9th off Red Sox closer Koji Uehara but it wasn't enough as Boston wins game 3 to take a 2-1 series lead.
* The Red Sox get a huge 5-2 win in game 3 to take a 2-1 lead in this best of 5 ALDS series. This was the Mariners chance to take control of the series with their ace on the mound but the Red Sox played a great road game.
* Clay Buchholz was solid but not spectacular as he out dueled Mariners ace Felix Hernandez. Buchholz pitched 6.2 innings allowing 1 run while striking out 4 and walking 3 to earn the win. Buchholz gave up 9 hits but made some big pitches when it counted to work out of a few jams including a big double play with the bases loaded against Kyle Seager.
* The Sox batters did a great job of driving up the pitch count against Felix Hernandez and knocked him out of the game after 5 innings.
* Boston will have a chance to end the series tomorrow in Seattle and advance to the ALCS tomorrow as they send Jake Peavy to the mound against Aaron Harang in Game 4
<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 Seattle Mariners</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="40%">Oct 8, 2013</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 (1-1)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">5</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Seattle (1-1)</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">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">2</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">2</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" colspan="13"><b>W:</b> Clay Buchholz (1-0) <b>L:</b> Felix Hernandez (0-1)</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%">SEA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">4</td><td width="70%">Jarrod Saltalamacchia doubled to CF (Ortiz & Napoli score)</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">4</td><td width="70%">Will Middlebrooks grounded out to 3B (Nava scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">SEA</td><td align="center" width="7%">4</td><td width="70%">Mike Zunino doubled to RF (Smoak scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">5</td><td width="70%">David Ortiz singled to CF (Victorino scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">9</td><td width="70%">Stephen Drew solo HR to RF </td><td align="right" width="8%">5</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">SEA</td><td align="center" width="7%">9</td><td width="70%">Nick Franklin sac fly to CF (Miller scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">5</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</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> Saltalamacchia (1)<br /><b>HR:</b> Drew (1)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Saltalamacchia 2 (2), Drew (1), Middlebrooks (1), Ortiz (4)<br /><b>HBP:</b> Ellsbury</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BASERUNNING:</u></b><br /><b>SB:</b> Victorino 2 (3)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#001C43" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Seattle Mariners</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> Zunino (1), Miller (2)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Zunino (1), Franklin (2)<br /><b>SF:</b> Franklin<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Seager</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>FIELDING:</u></b><br /><b>E:</b> Seager (2), Ackley (1)</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>Clay Buchholz (W, 1-0)</td><td align="right">6.2</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">1.35</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Craig Breslow (H, 1)</td><td align="right">1.1</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">5.40</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Koji Uehara</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">7.71</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#001C43" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Seattle Mariners</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>Felix Hernandez (L, 0-1)</td><td align="right">5.0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">6.35</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Oliver Perez</td><td align="right">2.0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0.00</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Yoervis Medina</td><td align="right">1.1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">4.50</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Lucas Luetge </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></table></body></html>
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