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"Somebody was going to be down, 2-1," said Mark Kotsay, who had two of the Sox' seven hits. "This team has got a lot of character. I don't think anybody in here is in a panic mode or worried. We're at home. We'll come out tomorrow and play hard and hopefully tie this back up." -- as quoted by Amalie Benjamin in today's Globe. Good attitude, dude. Now make it so.
"Like I said from the beginning, it doesn't matter to me who's the No. 1 starter and who's the No. 5 starter,’’ Lester said Sunday in anticipation of his Game 3 start. "We all have equal importance to this team when it comes to winning. I just try to go out and execute pitches. Hopefully I can go deep in the game and give the bullpen a rest and give it to [Jonathan Papelbon], and anytime you get to Pap with the lead, we're doing pretty good.’’ -- That's pitcher Jon Lester, quoted by the Boston Globe's Tony Massarotti. Boy will we all be glad to see Lester on the mound, as well as the friendly green of Fenway. I haven't entirely forgotten about books, though -- in fact my recent reading and my Red Sox in the playoffs obsession merged for awhile there as I read Dennis Lehane's new novel, "The Given Day." It's historical and it's epic and Babe Ruth shows up a couple times, in his last year with the Sox (the book is set in 1918-1919 -- I wonder what it says about us as a society that the trade of the Babe to the Yankees is far better known to New England schoolchildren than the Boston police strike which is the climax to the book?
"I about fell down rounding third because I was going faster than my legs would move." That's Jason Bay, who thankfully did NOT in fact fall down and slid into home to score the winning run in the ninth inning. Indicating that this is a new day (yes, I know everyone else has known that since 2004), I was fairly confident that the Sox would, in fact, put this away. If only I had the time and disposable income to go scalp some tickets in Tampa ...
"We still have to continue to go out and play our game and worry about ourselves. We lost tonight. Good thing we play later today." -- Catcher Jason Varitek
What's going on here? Well, many book blogs have been making a foray into politics. I haven't (other than to say VOTE OBAMA) but since the boys from Boston are in the playoffs I'm going to revive my fall tradition, all of one year old, started last year when I was doing the Solares Hill blog.
So yeah, good thing, Jason. Hope you guys are getting to sleep in today. Especially the pitchers.