Boston Red Sox
Late Red Sox-Yankees game notes
06:44 AM EDT on Monday, September 17, 2007
-- Kevin Youkilis, who suffered a bruised right wrist, just under the palm, said after last night's game that he still doesn't have feeling in his right thumb and wasn't feeling a whole lot better since getting drilled by a Chien-Ming Wang pitch during Saturday's game.
Youkilis said he has no idea when he'll be able to return to the lineup.
-- The Red Sox rookies, including interpreters and Japanese trainers, endured the yearly hazing ritual, forced to wear various eye-catching, often embarrassing clothing for the start of the team's last road trip, to Toronto.
Daisuke Matsuzaka (green) and his interpreter, Masa Hoshino (purple), were dressed in colorful Teletubby outfits. Brandon Moss was dressed as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, complete with wig and small picnic basket. Clay Buchholz was a female pirate. Those were a few of the more colorful outfits.
-- Jacoby Ellsbury had his hitting streak snapped at 13 games. The Sox outfielder, who had delivered at least one hit in each game since being promoted from Pawtucket on Sept. 1, went 0 for 4, including three groundouts to first base.
He did reach base twice, though. In the first he reached when left fielder Johnny Damon dropped his leadoff liner. He stole second and scored on a single by Mike Lowell. Ellsbury also got on base when Mariano Rivera drilled him off the left kneecap on the first pitch of his ninth-inning at-bat. Ellsbury stayed in the game and didn't seem to be limping after the game.
-- The homer for Robinson Cano was his third of the year off Curt Schilling and the fourth of his career . . . Lowell's homer in the eighth accounted for the first earned run surrendered by Joba Chamberlain in his big-league career. His scoreless streak was snapped at 17 2/3 innings . . . Derek Jeter's two hits boosted his career total to 2,335, moving him one behind Bernie Williams for fourth place on the Yanks' all-time list . . . The two RBI by Lowell inflated his season's total to 108, the second-highest single-season total for a Red Sox third baseman, trailing on the 112 RBI produced by Butch Hobson in 1977 . . . Eric Hinske, who went 1 for 4, is batting .421 (8 for 19) over his last six games . . . The Yankees won 8 of their last 10 games against the Sox this year, winning the season's series, 10-8.
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