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The Ortiz Show

Ortiz provided all the offense needed last night, but he was only 1 element of this three ring circus know as the Boston Red Sox. Derek Lowe who struggled through the worst month of May he has ever seen has begun to right his ship. Last nights win marks the second win in a row for Lowe but more importantly it was his best performance of the season as he shutout the Dodger for 7 innings. Lowe lowered his ERA from the "I really suck" level of 6.55 to the "Slightly worse then average" level of 5.83.

"The more you do pitch well, it does give you more confidence," said Lowe.

Lowe's counter part Odalis Perez matched him pitch for pitch and shut the Sox out all the way until Ortiz came up to bat in the seventh. The one man show sent a solo homer in to the stands for what looked like the one and only winning run of the ball game.
Enter Foulke who had the crowd on their feet, the announcers giving credit to the technical people behind the scenes and one out left to record. One what looked to be a routine pop up to left, Manny Ramirez began to run unexpectedly hard then he seemed to drift into Cadillac mode and went for a basket catch off his left shoulder. The ball dropped, the game was not over, and as the Fenway faithful grabbed their head the game became tied forcing the Red Sox to take their ups for the bottom of the ninth.

"Hey, come on, let's win it now," Martinez said in the dugout.

"And that's what happened," Ramirez said.

The Ortiz Show came up to bat with Damon on third and The OS managed a single which sent Damon home to end the game. The natives rejoiced, Pedro danced, hugged, and smacked some asses. Wakefield takes on Weaver for the Fox game of the week at 3pm. This game will prove to have more home run balls then high school prom.


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