Red Sox 4, Brewers 3 (10)
Brewers now 90-61 (1st by 2.0 games)
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MILWAUKEE — For the second consecutive day, the Brewers mounted a late rally to push the Red Sox to extra innings. Unlike yesterday, however, the Brewers couldn’t pull out the win for the home crowd.
With two outs and a runner on third in the 10th inning, reliever Dwight Bernard walked Dwight Evans on four pitches. His first two pitches to Jim Rice were also out of the strike zone.
“With the count 2-0, you have to figure he’s looking for a pitch to jerk,” Bernard said of his approach.
Rice hit a bouncing ball up the middle for a hit to score Glenn Hoffman for the eventual winning run.
“I am a ground ball pitcher,” continued Bernard. “I got a ground ball out of Remy. I got a ground ball out of Rice. He just hit it in the wrong place, no one was there to catch it.”
After Paul Molitor hit a home run to tie it in the eighth, the second dramatic late-inning home run to tie a game in as many days, it seemed the Brewers would pull out another big win. But they stranded two runners in the ninth and couldn’t get a runner past first in the 10th.
The good news is that the second place Baltimore Orioles also lost to remain two games out. Of course, the bad news is also that the Baltimore Orioles lost. The Brewers missed an opportunity to finally gain a game.
The other bad news is that embattled reliever Rollie Fingers still isn’t progressing from his forearm injury. He participated in his third throwing session in five days today, and was able to throw 30 pitches before his arm stiffened instead of 20. But there’s still no timetable for his return.
“It’s the same as the other day,” said manager Harvey Kuenn, “so we will wait and see what develops. If he can come back and pitch it’s a bonus. At this point, you have to figure that you won’t be able to use him for the rest of the year.”
Not what we were wanting to hear, Harvey. Hopefully there’s a miracle left in that arm.
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