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Article: Sox stone cold Beckett loses first; Drew gets earful
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 15, 2007
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Rockies 7
Red Sox 1
The bats have gone quiet, the pitching has stumbled, and the
Yankees are winning every day.
All of that means the gloves have come off at Fenway Park, where a
sellout crowd of 36,939 did not let last night's 7-1 Red Sox loss to
the Colorado Rockies pass without comment.
The object of the fans' disaffection was not Josh Beckett, who
lost for the first time this season and gave up two home runs,
including a grand slam by Garrett Atkins, in five innings. It was
J.D. Drew, whose slow start at the plate was tolerated while the Sox
were winning. With the Sox having lost 8 of 13 games in June, and the
Yankees reeling off nine wins in a row, Drew no longer is getting a
free pass ...