Published on Saturday, February 13, 2010
By Telegraph Staff
Rule of thumb: When Hideki Okajima is relieving Jonathan Papelbon with two on and two on in the ninth, you need not check the scoreboard to confirm that it's not looking good for the Red Sox.
When Papelbon leaves in mid-inning, it always means something bad has happened.
Often this summer, during which the Red Sox sometimes overachieved, sometimes underachieved but probably ended up about where they belong, Papelbon's adventure was sometimes nerve-wracking. Clean innings seemed to elude him at a few particularly inopportune times.
And that is the least that can be said about his inning of work Sunday afternoon. Seeing the Los Angeles Angels (of Anaheim, Calif. USA) dancing on the Fenway lawn, knowing that he was one strike away from extending the Red Sox season three times before the final fall, is a vision Papelbon says will stay him. And he'll make no attempt to avoid it.
This is something I might put on the TV in my weight room,'' he said
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