Devil Rays 3, Red Sox 1
For the life of me I can't understand why Tito had Cora in for Lowrie tonight. It made the last third of our batting order a dead zone. I'm also not sure why Tito didn't pull out Tek in the ninth for Casey.
Regardless the Sox bat's just couldn't pull it off and it was basically over for our boys when Drew struck out with the bases loaded in the eighth.
The only bright spot of the evening was that my Canadian Cousin spend two hours on the phone with me helping to fix my computer. Now my internet is up and running again! Oh Canada!
I also had a fine time listening to the game with my Canadian Cousin as we IM'd each other for the entire game. It was the only fun part of a dreadful evening.
The Sox had a great run in the play-offs. Game 5 of the ALCS was awesome and it was great to see Lester and Beckett pick it up for the last two games. I think I will always wonder though if it would have been different if everybody was healthy. With Lowell out and Papi and Beckett hurt I think it weakened the team and maybe, just maybe if they had been healthy we would have had a different outcome tonight.
But-no excuses. It is what it is and the Sox had a GREAT year.
Go Phillies.
