The Red Sox ended up beating the Yankees today after a 2 hour+ rain delay before the ninth. Mussina pitched 5.2 innings, letting up four runs off of eight hits. Three of those runs were due to a home run by Manny Ramirez in the bottom of the sixth. Girardi told Mussina to pitch to Ramirez despite first base being open and the Yanks ended up getting burned. Other than that incident the game was well played. The offense wasn’t on fire, but the opposition’s offense wasn’t too great either. The Yanks ended with six hits and the BoSox with nine. The final score was 4 to 3.
Tomorrow is the series finale in Boston. Phil Hughes will take the mound against Daisuke Matsuzaka. The game begins at 8:05EST and will be aired on ESPN.