A collective choke job by the Rays. Balfour, Wheeler and Longoria. But the tail should be pinned on Balfour. He really let his team down. A 6-inning shutout by Kazmir gets flushed down the toilet.
I know what you mean. Tampa Bay has the most loyal fans, those 7,500 deserve to see their home team win the pennant.
I don't know exactly what the stat is, but they're like 38-2 at Tropicana Field when the attendance is over 30,000 or something like that. Maddon did the right thing by not pitching Shields on the road. Look at this home splits. I think this will be like the Astros in 2005 when everyone thought St. Louis had the momentum and would win Game 6 and 7. Instead they ran into Oswalt and died. Shields is the new Oswalt here.
This Red Sox team is a little bit more formidable than the Cardinals were... and they just came back from 3-1 a year ago.
I knew I should have took MadMax's advice and not wrote off the Sox. I went ahead and went to bed last night before that comeback by the Sox. I mean they had just scored 4 runs in the 7th but I still thought the Rays would handle them.
The Red Sox have put back something that I would call a "fake rally". They will not come back and win this series and it's not because of them. The Rays are just too good.
