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Article: Stinging loss for Red Sox Devil Rays spoil finale of very good road trip
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2007
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Devil Rays 5
Red Sox 2
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The splitter was left up and out over the
plate, exactly where Daisuke Matsuzaka did not want to locate the
pitch to Dioner Navarro. So, as the pitch flew out of the park to
right field, 6 1/3 innings of shutout ball, including a ground out
with the bases loaded in the second, became moot. The scoreless tie
was broken and, though Manny Delcarmen would help put the game out of
reach for the Red Sox, it was Matsuzaka who took the loss in a 5-2
defeat at Tropicana Field.
But after a seven-game road trip through Cleveland and Tampa Bay,
the focus just as easily could have been put on the two straight
series wins, the 5-2 record, and the emergence of ...