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Rookies Rip Rockies in Game 3 Roaster
By Tony ‘the Tiger’ Hayes October 27, 2007 |
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Third verse, same as the first…and second. Just a little bit longer. The setting was different, with rocky mountains replacing green monsters, but the results of Game 3 of the 2007 World Series was exactly like the first two, with the Red Sox beating the Rockies 10-5, in four hours and 19 minutes setting a record for longest nine inning World Series tilt. With three wins in their pockets, Boston can take their second world championship since 2004 on Sunday night. Twenty-two times teams have jumped off to 3-0 World Series leads, and each time they have gone on to take the series. On Saturday night, the Red Sox jumped off to an early lead, bashing Colorado starter Josh Fogg for six runs in just 2.2 innings, before the Rockies came back to make the game close, before the Red Sox put it out of reach once and for all. On a Boston team occupied with ferocious sluggers, it’s easy to forget about the little guys, but as try as much as they’d like to forget them, the Rockies will not soon erase the memory of the damage that Red Sox rookies outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury and second baseman Dustin Pedroia have done to them in this fall classic. In Game 3 the pesky youngsters combined to go 7-for-10, with 4 RBI and 3 runs scored. Ellsbury went 4-for-5, with three doubles and two RBI; Pedroia hit 3-for-5, with two RBI. The Red Sox jumped all over Fogg in the third when David Ortiz ripped an RBI double and Mike Lowell and starting pitcher Dice-K Matsuzaka conked RBI singles. Ellsbury pumped two doubles in the frame to tie a fall classic record. Boston then went on cruise control as Matsuzaka pitched brilliantly into the sixth, when the Rox bats finally woke up. After issuing back to back walks to Todd Helton and Garrett Atkins, Dice-K was removed and Javier Lopez was summoned. The former Rockie farmhand didn’t last long, serving up an RBI singles to Brad Hawpe and Yorvit Torrealba. Out came Lopez and in came veteran Mike Timlin who retired the side, aided by a leaping catch by shortstop Julio Lugo. But the Rox were just getting warmed up. With Hideki Okajima in the game in the seventh, Colorado got two runners on before Matt Holliday bashed a three-run clout to dead center to move the Rockies to within one run of Colorado precarious lead. But just when the mile high faithful had something to shout about, the Red Sox little rascals dumped the equivalent of a foot of snow on their hopes, as the top of the eighth Ellsbury loped a run scoring double down the right field and Pedroia followed with a two-run two bagger in the very same location, to ice the contest. |
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