RED SOX PUT UP PAIR OF 5-RUN INNINGS DURING ROUT
BY PAT DORWIN
SPORTSWRITER
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
ARLINGTON - HONG-CHIN KUO WENT FROM SAVIOR TO JANITOR IN 24 HOURS.
KUO, A NIGHT AFTER PRESERVING A 2-0 WIN OVER BOSTON, ALSO FOUND HIMSELF IN THE GAME FOR NINTH-INNING DUTY SATURDAY.
BUT THIS TIME KUO WASN'T TRYING TO KEEP THE RED SOX FROM SCORING, HE WAS JUST HOPING THEY WOULDN'T SCORE ANY MORE RUNS.
LO AND BEHOLD, BOSTON'S NEVILLE MALLETTE TACKED ON A THREE-RUN SHOT AGAINST KUO, TOPPING OFF A 17-10 ROUT AT THE HANDS OF BOSTON.
THE RANGERS (8-11) SCORED SEVEN RUNS IN THE FIRST TWO INNINGS, ONLY TO WATCH RATHER HELPLESSLY AS THE RED SOX (7-10) TALLIED A PAIR OF 5-RUN INNINGS, A 4-RUN STANZA, AND THOSE PESKY THREE RUNS IN THR NINTH.
ALL IN ALL, THE TEAMS COMBINED FOR 27 RUNS AND 38 HITS - AND NOT TOO MUCH OF ANYTHING WAS CHEAP AS THERE WAS JUST A SINGLE ERROR IN THE GAME.
IN WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN A FIRST, AT LEAST IN THE LAST 111 YEARS OR SO, THE GAME FEATURED THREE STARTING PLAYERS WITH THE FIRST NAME OF "NEVILLE."
BOSTON'S NEVILLE WAS CLEARLY THE STAR OVER THE TWO TEXAS NEVILLES.
NEVILLE MALLETTE, BOSTON'S RIGHTFIELDER, SLAMMED A PAIR OF THREE-RUN HOMERS, THE INITIAL BLAST GIVING BOSTON A 9-7 LEAD IN THE FOURTH, THE SECOND CLUBBING KUO TO FINISH OUT HIS TEAM'S SCORING.
TEXAS' NEVILLE'S, CRUISE AND LECROY, COMBINED TO GO 3-FOR-7.
THINGS STARTED BADLY IN THE BULLPEN FOR THE RANGERS BEFORE THE GAME AS JOSH JOHNSON SUFFERED BRUISED RIBS WHILE WARMING UP. HE'S EXPECTED TO START.
BUT THINGS BEGAN TO LOOK UP FOR EMERGENCY STARTER DELMON BHADELIA IN THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE FIRST WHEN TEXAS PLATED FOUR RUNS.
BHADELIA PROMPTLY GAVE BOSTON THE FOUR-SPOT BACK IN THE SECOND FRAME, THEN AFTER THE RANGERS PLATED THREEE MORE IN THEIR HALF OF THE INNING, BHADELIA WAS IN THE MIDST OF BOSTON'S FIRST FIVE-RUN UPRISING.
THE RANGERS WOULD MAKE IT 9-9 AFTER SIX INNINGS, BUT BOSTON IMMEDIATELY HIT BACK WITH FIVE RUNS IN THE SEVENTH TO END THE SUSPENSE.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
BOSTON 0 4 0 5 0 0 5 0 3 17 20 0
TEXAS 4 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 10 18 1
BOSTON AB R H BI BB SO
REYES 5 0 3 1 0 1
GREENE 1 1 0 0 0 1
OLIVO 5 2 2 3 1 1
DAMON 4 2 2 1 1 2
SNIDER 6 1 1 0 0 2
MALLETTE 6 3 3 6 0 1
BARMES 5 2 2 0 1 1
KOUZMANFF 4 2 2 3 1 1
BRIGNAC 5 1 2 0 0 1
CORPORAN 4 3 2 3 1 0
TEXAS
RAMIREZ 5 1 1 0 0 2
WILEY 5 3 3 3 0 1
SWISHER 5 2 2 3 0 1
CRUISE 5 1 2 0 0 2
RASMUS 5 2 4 2 0 0
LUCROY 2 0 1 0 0 0
MORALES 1 0 0 0 0 0
MARKAKIS 1 0 0 1 0 1
McMAHON 5 0 0 0 0 2
JARAMILLO 5 0 4 1 0 0
CALLASPO 4 1 1 0 1 1
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