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rscI am, of course, thrilled that the Red Sox beat the Angels in the ALDS (again), and I can even almost forgive them for losing in an excruciating 12 innings at the one game we attended (having it end late enough that we deemed that we had to walk home was merely a bonus).
Among the many unbeauties of a deeply unbeautiful game was one that we could, at least, be happy about (if only temporarily): Jacoby Ellsbury's pop fly that the Angels fielders apparently considered radioactive, as they all seemed loath to touch it, with the result that it fell to the grass uncaught. The bases were loaded, there were two out, and the count was full, so of course all three runners had scored by the time the ball was retrieved, even though Ellsbury himself only had time to get to first base. Official scorers generally do not (or their rules do not permit them to) assign an error to whoever should have caught a ball that falls untouched, so it goes in the books as a single, three RBI.
This goes along with two other inexplicable blunders by the Angels (Vladimir Guerrero's overly exuberant attempt to go to third in Game 1, and the suicidal suicide squeeze attempt in Game 4) -- both of which, unlike the one described above, probably cost them the games they occurred in -- to make one wonder if, after all, their postseason history with the Sox did get into their heads.
Among the many unbeauties of a deeply unbeautiful game was one that we could, at least, be happy about (if only temporarily): Jacoby Ellsbury's pop fly that the Angels fielders apparently considered radioactive, as they all seemed loath to touch it, with the result that it fell to the grass uncaught. The bases were loaded, there were two out, and the count was full, so of course all three runners had scored by the time the ball was retrieved, even though Ellsbury himself only had time to get to first base. Official scorers generally do not (or their rules do not permit them to) assign an error to whoever should have caught a ball that falls untouched, so it goes in the books as a single, three RBI.
This goes along with two other inexplicable blunders by the Angels (Vladimir Guerrero's overly exuberant attempt to go to third in Game 1, and the suicidal suicide squeeze attempt in Game 4) -- both of which, unlike the one described above, probably cost them the games they occurred in -- to make one wonder if, after all, their postseason history with the Sox did get into their heads.
