It was fun while it lasted for the Red Sox.
The 11-game run came to a sudden and unexpected halt on Tuesday. Once the Sox put the wood to the Indians to jump out to a 5-1 lead in the second and a 7-3 lead entering the bottom of the third, a 12th straight "W" seemed inevitable.
The Sox, after all, had not lost any game all year in which they'd held the lead after three innings. Nor had Boston lost any game in which it had held a lead of four or more runs.
But Brad Penny and a surprisingly porous Red Sox defense allowed the Indians back in the game. By the end, it seemed fitting that the Sox absorbed a walk-off, 9-8 defeat against Cleveland courtesy of an error on one of the simplest plays imaginable.
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The 11-game run came to a sudden and unexpected halt on Tuesday. Once the Sox put the wood to the Indians to jump out to a 5-1 lead in the second and a 7-3 lead entering the bottom of the third, a 12th straight "W" seemed inevitable.
The Sox, after all, had not lost any game all year in which they'd held the lead after three innings. Nor had Boston lost any game in which it had held a lead of four or more runs.
But Brad Penny and a surprisingly porous Red Sox defense allowed the Indians back in the game. By the end, it seemed fitting that the Sox absorbed a walk-off, 9-8 defeat against Cleveland courtesy of an error on one of the simplest plays imaginable.
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