Danks No-hit bid erased
August 11, 2008 by Jim Mulligan
Filed under Major League Baseball, Red Soxs, White Soxs
White Sox pitcher John Danks was pitching brilliantly with the slimmest of margins tonight in Chicago. In a pitchers duel with Boston ace, Josh Beckett, the ChiSox were leading 1-0 going into the top of the 7th inning. Unfortunately for Danks, he just had his no hit bid broken up with one out in the 7th inning. A broken bat single to left center field by Kevin Youkilis ruined the chance for history. Mike Lowell followed the Yoooook single with a walk. After a Jason Bay strikeout, J.D. Drew stroked a two run double to the gap in left center. Just like that, the no hitter, shutout, and the lead were gone.
Danks, who was perfect into the 6th inning, allowed his first base runner of the game when he hit Jacoby Ellsbury with a pitch.
Banks recovered to strike out Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek to end the top half of the 7th with the Red Sox up 2-1
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August 11th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Update - Danks is done for the night. Newly aquired Horatio Ramirez to start the 8th inning
August 11th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Update - Red Sox score 3 in the top of the 9th to open up 2-1 game into a 5-1 potential blowout.
Paps warming up for 9th inning non save duty
August 11th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
That’s it. Paps with a 1-2-3 9th inning. Red Sox with a (holy crap) 4-3 winning record on the road trip.
I said they need to go roughly 14/15 wins out of the first 22 games in August to keep pressure on Tampa. Since aquiring Jason Bay on July 31st, the good guys from Fenway are 7-3. Great start.
Plan on getting some Texas Ranger info for tomorrow
August 11th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Bay is a fine bat in the line-up and good on the Sox for getting back on track! Peaks and valleys for every team over the course of the season.
August 12th, 2008 at 5:19 am
First of all - Manny can hit like few others can in the game. He looked to be having a down year this year but Bay is probably not going to replace Manny’s offensive numbers. Having said all that, the team looks better knowing that the distraction of Manny is gone.