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Tim Wakefield and his fluttering knuckleball have historically owned the Rays in their home dome.
Wakefield entered last night with a career 9-2 record and a 2.45 ERA at Tropicana Field, but — as the Tampa Bay upstarts have been quick to show this season — sometimes baseball history doesn’t repeat itself.
The Rays knocked out Wake and his flatter-than-flapjacks knuckler in the third inning and rocked three home runs in a 10-3 Sox loss last night.
The defeat dropped Boston two games behind the first-place Rays with ten games to play, and likely relegated the Sox to an AL Wild Card berth this year.
Things started off promisingly enough for the Sox when David Ortiz launched the first of two home runs, and jolted the Sox out to a quick 2-0 lead. Wake gave it all back and then some in the bottom of the first, however, and suffered another clunker of an outing that should raise legitimate questions about his worth in the Sox playoff starting rotation.
The big blow was a two-run Willie Aybar homer deep into the left field seats that staked the Rays to a 3-2 lead. Tampa continued to play homer ball in the second, and Gabe Gross and the immortal Fernando Perez went back-to-back on Wakefield.
Terry Francona mercifully lifted the ineffective hurler from the game after serving up an Evan Longoria double in the third, but the Sox skipper inadvertently sent in the bullpen clowns following his starter.
Relievers Javy Lopez and Devern Hansack each committed fielding errors that opened the door for a three-run comedy of errors in the fourth that fattened the Rays bulge to six runs. Hansack threw away a pickoff through and Lopez simply whiffed on a dribbling grounder in front of the mound.
Ortiz hit another mammoth bomb in the top of the fourth that landed in the D-Ring catwalk of Tropicana Field and never came back down into a play — a ground-rules solo homer that became only the fourth four-bagger to remain stuck up in the catwalk.
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