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The game began just past four
With David Price taking the floor
By floor I mean mound
Just a metaphorical floor
And yes, I know this should rhyme
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I promise to do better this time
Tim Anderson led off with a dime
... of a single!
And then he did mingle
With Sam Travis at first (here’s the rhyme)
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Price walked the very next guy
To face Jose Abreu, who’s fly
He doubled home one
This is quickly no fun
And not even one out has gone by
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Matt Davidson looked at strike three
We got an out! Yippee!
Kevan Smith knocked in one more
On a groundout to 4
And Price kept it 2-0 with out 3
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Top one, Beni walks, X reaches on error
J.D. Martinez... also reaches on an error
Words rhyme each other you know
And home Beni did go
To make it 2-1, that’s no error
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I thought there’d be nothing go to say
About the second, but, oh my, JBJ!
He hit the ball hard
It left the yard
And it was 2-2 on the day
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We’ll skip right through the third
Because nothing of note occurred
In top 4 Price got’em
Which brought us to the bottom
About which, a brief word:
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With runners on the corners, no out
Blake Swihart struck out
JBJ did too
Which was real poo
And then Benintendi also struck out
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BUT! In bottom five
The big bat came alive
Bogaerts walked
And J.D. uncocked
His league-leading 21st tater, with chives*
(*just go with it)
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Now it it’s top six, 4-2
Could Old Man Price see it through?
WIth two outs, first and third
Vs. Moncada (of whom you’ve heard)
Price got the K; Yoan, boo-hoo!
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To the bullpen went those Pale Hose
But you know how Blake-Jackie-Beni goes
Strikeout, strikeout, K
That’s the very much the way
They rolled today, and it blows
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Top seven put Joe Kelly on the hill
On his 30th birthday: The thrill!
Kelly wore the crown
Three up, three down
Ugh. Does this bit suck yet? It will
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Bottom seven went by in a blink
Which brought Matt Barnes to the rink
By rink I meant mound
Yes I’m doing this again
But he survived a tough eighth, ya dink
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Wow! It’s already bottom eight!
(How’d the Sox do there? Not great!)
Travis went down and Devers did too
Vazquez singled, because it’s what he do
But Holt K’d swinging, and now it was late
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Craig Kimbrel came on for the save
If he doesn’t get it, I’m gonna rave
But he got it alright
And we called it a night
With a 4-2 Sox win, let’s pave*
(* the road to the World Series title, maybe? Let’s just say that and be done with it. There aren’t a ton of “ave” rhymes. It’s kinda surprising, but it doesn’t come up until you do something like this, or this specifically.)