There was a time in my life when something like this would never get by me. Three straight nights of the game starting after 10PM, and all day long I’m thinking the 4th in Oakland is a night game. Schilling pitches a complete game, missing a no-hitter by one batter, and I missed it. *&$%!!!
(Story) Maybe the next time a Boston pitcher takes a no-hit bid into the ninth inning, he’ll listen to catcher Jason Varitek. Curt Schilling came within one out of his first career no-hitter Thursday, losing his bid when Shannon Stewart lined a clean single to right field after Schilling shook off his catcher. Schilling finished with a one-hitter as the Red Sox beat the Oakland Athletics 1-0. “We get two outs, and I was sure, and I had a plan, and I shook Tek off,” Schilling said. “And I get a big `What if?’ for the rest of my life.”
Without fail, when a Sox pitcher is giving up hits (I’m thinking about Dice-K here), he’s missing location. When the pitch meets Varitek’s glove, and it’s the pitch he called for, it always seems to go right.