Sunday, October 24, 2004 |
License To Schill: Red Sox 6, Cardinals 2
Gibson hobbled to the plate... and it might be noted that while Gibby only made one appearance, a single at-bat in the first game of the Series, Schilling has started three times already. That's a lot of innings for a guy literally held together with stitches.
Won the game in '88
But Schilling and his bloody feet
Cheered the frigid Boston street
I somehow do not think that the original authors of baseball's postseason meant for it to become nearly a month's worth of games. Looking at the historical Boston weather, the average low drops almost ten degrees between October 1st to Halloween. Unsurprisingly, field conditions at Fenway were simply awful today, cold (48F), not to mention drizzling. By the end of the game, the field was clearly turning into mud. I had to wonder how much that goo was contributing to the three errors made at third by Bill Mueller -- amazingly, against the meat of the Cardinals' lineup -- which the Cards somehow failed to cash in. Curt Schilling is that good, even busted up as he is. At least the Sox kept him in the rotation such that he won't have to hit at Busch. Imagine running on that ankle -- ouch. Well, the docs have decided for him: he's likely to miss a game six start if it comes to that, and we have to believe that it will; the Cards are a better team than to lose in five.
Schill came up big, but that isn't to say he was brilliant; a lot of Cards got on base, but he kept them from scoring, for the most part. In fact, he had no earned runs, but thanks to another night of random fielding, the Cards managed to put up a couple runs, but it wasn't anywhere near enough. Pujols went 3-4, but he was the only Cardinals hitter to do anything of consequence.
Going to Busch with a 2-0 lead is huge. What to do with Ortiz, though, once the DH goes away? Do they have him play first? Who knows. But you know things have turned upside down in the world when New York restaurant Mickey Mantle's jokingly changes the name to Ted Williams' -- and the owner gets death threats. The Red Sox are here. And they're no longer second fiddle.
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