Red Sox Win In 7 innings???

[KG Living Legend]

 Please fill me in on the details. I heard Steve Phillips from ESPN Irate about how we should not have played the second game, until we finished the 1st. But why was it stopped? Tp for any good info.

[Big Ticket]

First game was delayed after 7 (during bottom of 7th technically).  After almost 2 hours, the umps decided to call game 1 in hoped of also getting in game 2, which worked out.  Gardenhire didn't put up a fuss because it was 10-1 and the Sox had 2 guys on.

[nickagneta]

It was raining out and wasn't supposed to stop until somewhere around 8:00PM. So rather than wait close to 5 1/2 hours in a rain delay to finish off two innings in a game that would then have necessitated the calling of the second game early due to time constraints, both teams agreed that the smart thing was just to call the first game done with Boston having a 9 run lead and trying to get the whole second game in.

This two game set is the only time Minnesota is in Boston all year and rather than having to stay another day to get the second game in by waiting forever to finish off the last two innings of a game that was a complete blowout and then possibly playing the second game on Thursday, the teams decided this was the way to go along with the umps.

I think it was a smart decision on everyone's part.

[KG Living Legend]

Thanks. Tp's to ya both.

[Redz]

Yeh, if it was a one run game things would have been different I'm sure.

[Celtic]

Yeah it was the right thing to do, it catches you a little off guard sometimes when the most obvious, right thing is done in sports.