Once again the Boston Red Sox struggled against the Tampa Bay Rays as they two teams battle it our for first place in the division. On Tuesday night, the Red Sox were unable to come up with a big hit late in the game when they had chances to score and ended up losing by the score of 3-1.
The Red Sox had a great chance to score some runs in the eighth inning when they had the bases loaded but Mike Lowell grounded out to shortstop and the Sox were unable to score a run.
J.D. Drew had the only rbi for the Red Sox and that came in the fourth inning when he hit a rbi sac fly that scored Jacoby Ellsbury. Other then that, the Red Sox only had six hits in the game and were unable to score any more runs. Terrible outing for the offense when the team really needed them to step up.
Tim Wakefield pitched a good game as he threw seven innings and only gave up five hits and two runs. One of those two runs were earned. Wakefield walked three and struck out four batters in the game as well. It was too bad that Wakefield took the loss and fell to 5-6 on the season. Craig Hansen started the eighth inning for the Sox and was pulled after two runners reached base. Manny Delcarmen then came in and gave up a rbi single. The run was charged to Hansen.
So now the Red Sox find them selves down 0-2 in the series to the Rays and 2.5 games out of first place in the division. I don’t want to say that Wednesday’s game is a must win, but it is pretty high up there if you ask me.
