{"id":2607,"date":"2012-05-31T23:35:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T03:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2012-07-01T11:47:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:47:54","slug":"more-of-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/31\/more-of-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"More of the Same"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Thursday, May 31, 2012 &#8211; Fenway Park, Section 43<\/h3>\n<h4>Tigers 7, Red Sox 3<\/h4>\n<p>The Red Sox won the first three games against the Tigers, finally getting above the .500 mark. By the time I got to Fenway for my next game, the Red Sox were still in last place, but they were only 2.5 games out of first in a tightly-bunched A.L. East. \u00a0They were going for a four-game sweep of Detroit and finally seemed to be moving in the right direction. \u00a0The Sox even took a 2-0 lead in the second, on a homer by Jarrod Saltalamacchia and an RBI double by Scott Podsednik.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2610\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2610\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2610\" title=\"Scott Podsednik\" src=\"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/podsednik.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Podsednik warms up before the game.  His play while filling in for the injured outfielders had been one of the bright spots of late.\" width=\"257\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/podsednik.jpg 257w, http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/podsednik-110x150.jpg 110w, http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/podsednik-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Podsednik warms up before the game.  His play while filling in for the injured outfielders had been one of the bright spots of late.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Josh Beckett was helped out of trouble in the second, when Ryan Sweeney threw a runner out at the plate for an inning-ending 9-2 double play. \u00a0But there was no bailing him out in the third, when he gave up 4 hits and a sac fly. \u00a0Mix in a stolen base along the way, and the Tigers scored 3 runs to take the lead.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2612\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2612\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2612\" title=\"Fenway Park\" src=\"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fenway053112.jpg\" alt=\"View from right field on a warm night at Fenway Park.\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fenway053112.jpg 350w, http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fenway053112-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/fenway053112-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from right field on a warm night at Fenway Park.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Sox tied it up in the third, when Kevin Youkilis doubled and Saltalamacchia drove him in. But Salty&#8217;s errant throw on a stolen base in the fourth set up a run-scoring single that allowed the Tigers to retake the lead. \u00a0The Red Sox bats went silent after that, with only an infield single and a walk for the whole rest of the game.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2613\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2613\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2613\" title=\"Red Sox relievers\" src=\"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bullpen.jpg\" alt=\"Franklin Morales, Scott Atchison, Matt Albers, and Rich Hill walk out to the bullpen before the game.\" width=\"350\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bullpen.jpg 350w, http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bullpen-150x115.jpg 150w, http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bullpen-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franklin Morales, Scott Atchison, Matt Albers, and Rich Hill walk out to the bullpen before the game.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Franklin Morales gave up a homer in the eighth, then walked two. \u00a0Matt Albers got him out of it, but Rich Hill gave up 2 more runs in the ninth, which featured a second throwing error by Salty and a triple. \u00a0It just wasn&#8217;t anyone&#8217;s night, and all-in-all it had been a productive series, but it&#8217;s hard to focus on the positives when the game I go to is yet another loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, May 31, 2012 &#8211; Fenway Park, Section 43 Tigers 7, Red Sox 3 The Red Sox won the first three games against the Tigers, finally getting above the .500 mark. By the time I got to Fenway for my next game, the Red Sox were still in last place, but they were only 2.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redsoxdiehard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}