June 22, 1985: Boston Red Sox (37-28) @ Toronto Blue Jays (36-30)
Well, we just have to build ourselves a bridge and get over these past few games before the slow leak becomes a deluge. Few, if any teams go on to successful seasons if they cannot limit bad streaks and extend the good ones, which is what we must do here. Al Nipper on the hill for us against Ron Musselman, who I have faced just the one time last year, flying out to center. He doesn’t get many starts so this looks like it might well be a bullpen game for them. A blustery night so things could get a bit wild and woolly.
Bill Buckner YTD stats entering the game
Game Recap
We get on the board straight away with a couple runs in the 1st on 3 hits including my double but they get one of those back in the 3rd and then leapfrog us with 2 more in the next on a homer by Ernie Whitt.
Five innings sees the end of Musselman and we immediately tie the game at 3 off his replacement, Jim Acker. A two-out single in the next by Lloyd Moseby edges them back in front and we come up empty to drop our fifth straight, putting the Jays just a half-game back of us and the Tigers the same margin behind them.
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