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It's these kinds of wins that sometimes define championship teams. Build a shaky lead with unlikely role players. Take that wobbly lead into the top of ninth and blow it. Then, win it in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the final frame. That's just the recipe the Red Sox followed today in
a series-clinching 5-4 win at Fenway.
Brandon Snyder and
Ryan Lavarnway played the parts of the role players,
Koji Uehara was the blown savior, and
Shane Victorino was the walk-off hero—thanks to a error by the Jays first baseman.
Ryan Demspter again pitched well enough to win—going 5 1/3 innings and yielding just two earned runs. Snyder also led off the ninth-inning rally with a hit and made an
Jose Iglesias-like play at third.
Craig Breslow,
Alex Wilson and
Andrew Miller did stellar work out of the pen. All of sudden, your 2013 Carmine Hose are 50% of the way to 100 wins.
Can you believe it?
