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RED SOX 12, INDIANS 2
ALCS GAME 6 ■ SERIES
TIED,
3-3 ■ WP: SCHILLING; LP: CARMONA
All for one
J.D. Drew drills a 3-1 pitch to straight-away center field for a grand slam with two outs in the first inning, propelling the Sox to the Game 6 win.
Schill, Sox were made
for moments like these
BOSTON — It was perhaps the only
outcome less likely than J.D. Drew,
2-for-17 with the bases loaded in the
regular season, swinging on a 3-1
count.
Ten runs in the first three innings.
Seven off Fausto Carmona, meaning
Cleveland’s Big Two went an emphatic
0-for-4 on the biggest stage of their
careers. Eight RBIs from the bottom
half of the Boston order, destroying
their LCS production and nearly
matching their playoff totals.
It all adds up to another Game 7
for the team that came back from 1-3
down in 1986, from 0-2 in 1999, from
0-2 in 2003, from 0-3 in 2004. A team
that’s fanned Travis Hafner 10 times
in six games. A team that’s hit into 11
double plays.
And a team that made Curt
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Game 3: Indians 4, Red Sox 2
Game 4: Indians 7, Red Sox 3
Game 5: Red Sox 7, Indians 1
Game 6: Red Sox 12, Indians 2;
Series tied, 3-3
x-Tonight: Indians (Westbrook 6-9)
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JON COUTURE
At the ALCS
Schilling, playoff legend, baseball
historian, big-game master, almost a
complete afterthought.
“First inning he was fastball-split.
As the game progressed, kind of got in
where he was throwing his changeup,
cutter,” Sox manager Terry Francona
said. “Really, really pitched like the
guy that we need.”
On Saturday night, after the third
See COUTURE E7
■ The season now sits on
the right shoulder of Daisuke
Matsuzaka. E6
■ Jacoby Ellsbury gets his first
start of the postseason and he
responds. E6
■ Bill Mueller returns to the scene
of his 2004 heroics. E6
■ J.D. Drew erases a lost season
with one swing of the bat. E7
■ A look at the Sox history in
Game 7s. E7
Sox storm to decisive Game 7
By JIMMY GOLEN
Associated Press writer
BOSTON — From the brink of elimination and the depths of a yearlong
slump, J.D. Drew helped the Boston
Red Sox force a Game 7.
The struggling Red Sox right fielder
hit a grand slam and drove in five runs
and, behind yet another postseason
gem from Curt Schilling, Boston battered the Cleveland Indians 12-2 Saturday night to tie the AL championship series at three games apiece.
“We needed tonight’s game, we
needed a good performance for Schilling,” Drew said. “We got that, now
we’re going to play in Game 7.”
After failing to get a victory from aces
C.C. Sabathia and Fausto Carmona,
the Indians hope Jake Westbrook is
the answer tonight. The Red Sox turn
to Daisuke Matsuzaka, who has not
pitched well so far in the postseason.
“It’s going to come down to Game 7,
the two teams that won more baseball
By JONATHAN DARLING
Standard-Times staff writer
ROCHESTER — Old Rochester’s golf
team dominated the South Coast Conference, posting a 16-0 record in league
play and an 18-0 mark overall.
But how did the Bulldogs annihilate
the competition with their top player,
senior captain David Lash, posting an
8-6-4 record in match play?
“A lot of people think golf is an individual sport, but it’s not at all,” Lash
said. “It takes more than one good
player to win a match.”
The backbone of ORR’s success this
season has been the second tier of their
lineup. Four players have seen action in
the team’s Nos. 4, 5 and 6 positions and
have posted a combined 53-7-4 record
for the SCC champions.
Leading the team in wins was sophomore Brian Heacox, who played mostly
in the No. 5 position and posted a 15-11 record in his first season in the SCC.
Heacox spent his freshman year at
POSTSEASON PLAY
What: Division 1, 2 and 3 South
Sectionals
When: Monday and Tuesday
Where: Glen Ellen CC (Millis), Easton
CC, Norton CC, Bayberry Hills GC
(Yarmouth)
Teams to watch: Bishop Stang, Old
Colony, Old Rochester
Players to watch: Jordan
Botelho (Old Colony), Joe Connor
(Apponequet), Nick Jagoe (Westport),
Todd Lake (Dartmouth), Brandon
Oldham (Old Rochester)
At stake: The top two to four teams
and top 10 percent of individuals
advance to the state championships.
Bishop Stang, where he cracked the
starting lineup many times and carded
a few rounds in the 30s at Country Club
of New Bedford. He transferred to Old
Rochester over the summer.
“I wasn’t sure what to expect … a
new league, new courses, new teammates,” said Heacox, a Marion resident
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games than anybody over the regular
season, two teams that beat up each
other over the past week,” Indians
manager Eric Wedge said. “That’s the
way it should be. Everyone should be
excited.”
A third consecutive victory would
put Boston in the World Series for the
first time since 2004, when it rallied
from a 3-0 deficit in the ALCS to beat
the New York Yankees en route to its
first title in 86 years.
After stumbling in his previous outing, Schilling came back to show why
he is considered one of the best postseason pitchers in baseball history.
Schilling gave up Victor Martinez’s
solo homer in the second inning and
otherwise held the Indians scoreless
until Ryan Garko tripled and scored on
Jhonny Peralta’s sacrifice fly in the seventh. By that time, it was already 10-2.
Schilling got Kenny Lofton on a
grounder and former teammate Trot
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Pats not selling
Dolphins short
DOMINATING WITH DEPTH
Talent up and down lineup
carries unbeaten ORR into
sectional tournament
CHARLES KRUPA/The Associated Press
PETER PEREIRA/ The Standard-Times
ORR’s Brian Heacox had a team-best 15-1-1
mark, playing mostly from the back of the
lineup. That sort of strength at the back
carried the Bulldogs to an unbeaten season.
FOXBORO — It could be
a very good team meeting
at around noon Monday.
And, it could be the typical
post-Dolphins game Monday
meeting. The latter, just in case
you’re wondering, is never
DAN PIRES
pretty.
Inside the Patriots
Not straining to look too
deeply, it should be like the
typical shiny, happy ones
TODAY’S GAME
they’ve had in 2007 so far.
PATRIOTS (6-0) at
After all, on one side of the
DOLPHINS (0-6)
field today at Dolphin Stadium
will be the definition of sports
When: 1 p.m.
perfection.
Where: Dolphin Stadium
And, directly across from Bill
TV: CBS
Belichick’s divine creation will
Line: Patriots by 16½
its polar opposite. Sad to say
about Cam Cameron, there but
for the grace of Don Shula and
While the 6-0 Patriots
possibly Belichick, stand the
continue to steamroll their
likely owners of the first pick
way through season, the 0-6
in April’s NFL draft: the Miami Dolphins have gotten an early
Dolphins.
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