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By Joe McDonald
Journal Sports Writer
BOSTON _ Julio Lugo had an eventful night.
The Red Sox shortstop drove in two of the club’s three runs with a sacrifice fly and a solo home run. That was the good news.
“At the time it was a one-run game and he got us back even,” said Red Sox manager Terry Francona. “It was a good swing. He got his legs under and drove the ball. At the time it was a huge swing.”
The homer was his first in a 69-game span, which tied the third longest streak of his career. His longest skid was a 97 games when he played for the Astros in 2001 and 2002.
The bad news is he made two errors in the field that allowed an unearned run to score in a tie game.
The first one he made was attempting to turn a 3-6-1 double play. He rushed his throw and Tim Wakefield couldn’t make a play on it as the ball traveled to the screen in front of the Sox’ dugout, allowing a run to score.
On the second one he just made a bad throw.
“The one where he’s coming across the bag there’s a lot of movement,” Francona said. “You have to make a perfect throw because you have a pitcher covering. The other one was, I don’t know if he followed his throw because he had time and he got square and then he let it fly.”
It was Lugo’s second multi-error game of the season for the Red Sox. He has now made a total of 16 errors this season.
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How much longer are they going to allow him to put on a uniform in Boston? The guy sucks, in plain english.....get rid of him!
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