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June 13, 2007
Sean McAdam and Art Martone break down last night's Red Sox win on projo SoxTalk. Click here to listen to the full audio file. The topics of discussion include Tim Wakefield's return to effectiveness, the lineup shuffle, and Jonathan Papelbon's fine ninth inning.
Here are a few excerpts from Sean's comments:
On Wakefield last night: "He worked quickly, kept the knuckleball down, did everything you would want him to do, and he had good command of the knuckler. And that was vintage Wakefield. If Colorado hadn't come up with that run, we may have been looking at the first sub-two-hour game at Fenway in some time. But as it turned out it worked out OK for the Red Sox."
On Wakefield's streakiness: "I've been watching him pitch with the Red Sox since he came here in 1995, and he doesn't have a lot of explanation for when things go right or wrong."
On keeping Papelbon sharp: "I think it's settling in, so that he doesn't go five or six days in a row without pitching, which is what had happened prior to getting into trouble with the Yankees and giving up that home run to Alex Rodriguez on the last homestand. They've been trying to get him a little bit more regular work and that's not easy to do, because they have to sort of navigate that fine line between keeping him sharp and making sure they don't overuse him and are conscious of his shoulder strength and all the things that went wrong last year. But whatever they did, I think [last night] he looked fresh, he was aggressive, he was throwing strike one to every hitter, he wasn't falling behind, his command was sharper. That was as good as we've seen Papelbon since the first week of the season."
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