The Chase to Eleven

The Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians face off tonight at 7:10 Pm to see who will win the race to eleven. The first team to win 4 games in this series will go on to face the winner of the Arizona Diamondback vs. Colorado Rockies series which the Rockies lead three games to none.

The first team to win eight games will be the World Series champion. Who will it be? Your guess is as good as mine. I am a Red Sox home boy so my loyalty will be with them. The key to this series will be pitching. Becket and Shilling started the first two games and Dice K will pitch in Cleveland tonight for game 3.

The Red Sox have taken game one 10-3.

In game two the Sox blew it as the Indians scored 7 runs in the top of the 11th inning to win game two 13-6.

Dice K will have to pitch well tonight and the Sox bats will need to catch on fire again like they did in game one in order to bring the series back to Boston.

Thursday 10/18/07

Well, Dice K only pitched 4 2/3rds. of an inning Tuesday night. The team gave up 7 runs in this inning but didn’t give up a single run the rest of the game. The Sox went back to back to back on Home Runs the first team to ever accomplish this in an ALCS series. Manny raised his arms just like he did when he hit the walk off homer against the Angels. It didn’t bode too well around here with the sports talk show hosts as the seemed to think it was a little grandstanding. It was Manny being Manny that’s all.

Some more talk around here is JD Drew playing in right field and Jacoby Ellsbury not playing. Ellsbury played awesome down the stretch and a lot of fans think he sould play right field instead of Drew. If you look at Coco Crisp’s numbers they are far less than Drew’s so do you replace Crisp with Ellsbury? Francona won’t I might hav eif I was in that positio but it’s always easier to second guess someone when it’s all said and done.

Tonight Josh Beckett takes the mound against CC Sabathia who he defeated in game one 10-3. The sox will need to get off to another fast start tonight if they want to send the series back to Boston.

10/19/07

The Sox bounced back last night with a great pitching performance by Josh Beckett. Kevin Youkillis started things of with a deep home run to left field. After the Sox went up 2-1 they expanded their score to 4-1 with some more great hitting by Kevin Youkillis who tripled off the love of Grady Sizemore.

The weirdest play of the game came when Manny hit a deep ball to right center and it hit on top of the wall and bounced back into play. Thank goodness this wasn’t any closer of a game as Manny was held to a single and he should have been running hard like Ortiz and could have been on second.

All in all Beckett was the star last night and now the Sox will turn to Schilling to carry them to game 7.

10/20/07

Curt Schilling took the mound for the Sox and they started off with a big bang as the Sox loaded the bases in the first inning and had two outs when JD Drew came to the plate and belted a 3-1 pitch over the wall in deep center field for a 4-0 Red Sox lead. JD Drew really needed to start to get hot as the fans really wanted him to be replaced as his hitting was way off this year.

He went 3-5 this game and played fantastic. That’s why the Sox brought him here and are paying him big money to perform.

The Sox tallied 6 more runs in the 3rd inning to make it 10-1 and Cleveland added another run in the 7th but in the 8th the Sox added two more to really close the Indians out.

Final Boston 12 Indians 2.

Game 7 Sunday night Dice K takes the ball and has a really good outing as he goes 5 full innings iving up 6 hits and 2 runs.

The Sox opened up the first 3 innings with single runs in each frame. to take a 3-2 lead into the bottom of the 7th inning when Dustin Pedroia capped the night off with a dramatic 2 run homer in the 7th and then in the 8th had a bases clearing double as he drove in three more runs as the Sox went on to clinch the American League Title 11-2.

Now off to face the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday for the World Series.

GO SOX !!!