Game 27/162, Red Sox Walk-Off With a Win After an Error and a Nice Hit by Currently Slumping Carl Crawford

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On Sunday, the Red Sox avoid the sweep by walking off in the ninth. So far, May has been a good month for the Red Sox. Buchholz couldn't make Sunday's start due to a stomach ailment so Tim Wakefield took over and did well not giving up a run in 5.2 IP. Then, it all changed when slumping Jenks came in and gave up two runs to tie the game. 

The Red Sox scored 2 runs off of King Felix in the third. In the ninth, with one out, Lowrie hit a high fly ball deep to right. Ichiro lost it in the sun and just like that, Lowrie was on third (not considered an error?) with a triple. The next batter, Carl Crawford who had been slumping, hit a sharp single up the middle to win the game for the Red Sox. 

Players Quotes About the Triple (Joy of Sox):

Ichiro:

The moment that ball hit the sky, I couldn't pick up anything, it just disappeared. It's close to impossible to catch that ball. The decisions were look to the side so the ball could get deeper into myself and maybe hit me, or run back and let it fall down for a single. But ... late in a tight ballgame, you want to make that effort. You don't want to let that ball fall in and make it look like you aren't trying.

Lowrie:

When I hit it, I knew I got it good. He plays a really deep right field, the wind was blowing straight in and I saw him and thought he was camped right under it, which he was. But then the sun. ...

Jamey Wright:

I could tell he didn't see it. He actually came a lot closer than I thought he would. I thought it was going to sail right by him. I had a chance to get out of it with the ground ball, but I threw a cutter to Crawford that got a little too much of the plate. I was trying to get a shoe or glove or something on it, but he hit it too hard.

Players Quotes About the Single to End it (Joy of Sox):


Crawford:

Everything I hit, it seems like it's an out. To see it get through, it was like a big weight was off my shoulders. ... It's a new month.

David Ortiz:

Me and Gonzo, we had a race. I heard Gonzo say, "Man if he gets a hit right here, I'm going to hug him so hard." And then next thing you know, it's like, "OK, that's a good idea," and bam.

Adrian Gonzalez:

[We] just keep telling him that we believe in him. I wouldn't want anybody else in left field. He's the man. ... I keep telling him that the greatest thing for where you're in right now is that you're probably going to hit .330, .340 for the rest of the year. Good things will happen.