Article: TIGERS BURN RED SOX, 9-8 BENZINGER'S 7 RBIS GO FOR NAUGHT

DETROIT - If you wanted a microcosm of the season, here it was. Al Nipper doesn't hold a 5-0 lead. Steve Crawford gets taken upstairs by Kirk Gibson to blow it open in the sixth. The Red Sox lose to the Tigers, 9-8, despite seven runs batted in by rookie Todd Benzinger. Film at 11.

"Not very much you can say," shrugged manager John McNamara after his people came apart like a Times Square watch before an amazed 20,398 at Tiger Stadium last night. And there wasn't very much new. Six-year-olds from Wellesley to Wellfleet can tell you that whenever Roger Clemens or Bruce Hurst isn't on the hill, the Red Sox are the playthings of fate.

Last night Nipper couldn't make it out of the third ...

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