Final
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Red Sox hoping for continued success against Devil Rays
Aug 13, 2007 - 1:03 PM Tampa Bay (45-72) at Boston (70-47) 7:05 pm EDTBOSTON (Ticker) - With their lead in the American League East dwindling, the Boston Red Sox hope to increase their win total when the Tampa Bay Devil Rays visit Fenway Park on Monday.
The Red Sox once owned a double-digit lead in the AL East, but the New York Yankees have closed within four games on the strength of a 23-8 run since the All-Star break.
Boston has won five of six against the Devil Rays this season, including all three meetings here.
With a 17-2 record and 2.96 ERA in his career against Tampa Bay, Tim Wakefield (13-10, 4.81 ERA) will start for Boston in the opener of this three-game set. The knuckleballer is 8-3 in his last 11 starts, but is trying to avoid losing consecutive starts for the first time since early June.
The 41-year-old was hit hard by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on Tuesday, allowing seven runs in four innings during a 10-4 loss.
Based on the recent history of the Boston bullpen, Eric Gagne in particular, the longer Wakefield can go, the better.
Acquired from Texas at the trade deadline, Gagne has given up runs in four of five games and pitched to a 15.75 ERA. Facing the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, he gave up a game-tying home run to Miguel Tejada in the eighth inning. The Orioles later won on Kevin Millar's walk-off home run in the 10th.
The righthander also allowed four runs in while retiring just one batter as the Red Sox squandered a four-run, eighth-inning lead in a 6-5 loss.
"It's getting old. It's getting (expletive) ridiculous. That's what it's doing. It's getting (expletive) stupid," Gagne said after Sunday's loss. "We should have won three games out of three and I (expletive) blew two of them ... I'm not doing my job right now. I'm letting everyone down."
Tampa Bay starter James Shields (9-7, 4.32) is coming off a solid start on Wednesday against the Detroit Tigers. He allowed one run and five hits in seven innings during a 7-1 win.
The Devil Rays are a major league-worst 19-39 on the road.
- AL
FINAL
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
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TAMPA BAY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
BOSTON 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 x 3 8 0 (FINAL)
BATTERIES: TAM - JAMES SHIELDS, GARY GLOVER (7TH), GRANT BALFOUR (8TH) AND
DIONER NAVARRO
BOS - TIM WAKEFIELD, JONATHAN PAPELBON (9TH) AND DOUG
MIRABELLI
HOME RUNS: TAM - N
Aug 13 9:52 PM - AL
AT BOSTON - SCORING UPDATE
SINGLE BY MIKE LOWELL SCORED MANNY RAMIREZ.
SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, M LOWELL ON FIRST, J DREW ON SECOND, 1 OUT
CURRENT SCORE: TAMPA BAY 0
BOSTON 3 BOTTOM, 8TH
DUE UP FOR BOSTON: A CORA (.256, 1-FOR-3)
Rays vs. Red SoxAug 13 9:32 PM - AL
AT BOSTON - SCORING UPDATE
SINGLE BY JULIO LUGO SCORED DOUG MIRABELLI.
SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, J LUGO ON FIRST, E HINSKE ON SECOND, 2 OUT
CURRENT SCORE: TAMPA BAY 0
BOSTON 2 BOTTOM, 7TH
DUE UP FOR BOSTON: K YOUKILIS (.300, 0-FOR-3)
Rays vs. Red SoxAug 13 9:10 PM - AL
AT BOSTON - SCORING UPDATE
DOUBLE BY DAVID ORTIZ SCORED JULIO LUGO.
SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, D ORTIZ ON SECOND, 1 OUT
CURRENT SCORE: TAMPA BAY 0
BOSTON 1 BOTTOM, 1ST
DUE UP FOR BOSTON: M RAMIREZ (.292, 19 HR, 78 RBI)
Rays vs. Red SoxAug 13 7:21 PM
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