Double time
With a pair of walks through 7 innings of work, David Wells has already doubled his season average. He came into tonight averaging .97 walks per nine innings, or 19 walks in 177 innings. In 119 innings in 1999, Bret Saberhagen gave out just 11 free passes.
— As you might expect, the crowd loved it when Johnny Damon’s ground ball in the third inning skipped through the wickets of Alex Rodriguez at third base. Many of the voters for AL MVP have let it be known that they would wait until this weekend to decide what is expected to be a race between Rodriguez and David Ortiz (Mariano Rivera has also emerged as a possible candidate), and that’s not a good start for Rodriguez for sure, thought to be the front-runner specifically for playing the field.
Meanwhile, Ortiz – who has strolled to the plate to deafening “MVP” chants all night – through seven had one run batted in, and was intentionally walked by manager Joe Torre and Chien-Ming Wang in Boston’s three-run sixth. Ortiz earned the walk against Al Leiter an inning later. Advantage thus far goes to Big Papi., no?
— ESPN has set up a pavilion just beyond the Budweiser sign in right field, where it will be originating programming throughout the weekend.
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