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After falling behind 5-1 after three innings, the Red Sox tied the game up, completing the comeback thanks to J . P . Howell 's bases-loaded wild pitch in the eighth. (The inning was full of managerial maneuvering by Sox skipper Terry Francona
relievers such as Dan Wheeler, J . P . Howell and Trevor Miller with its final outs ..... Though the likes of Wheeler, Howell and Grant Balfour helped the Rays to ..... David Ortiz, and so it was on to J . P . Howell . Howell retired Ortiz on a force
well as just off both the inside and outside corners of the plate. In the first game, Rays pitchers James Shields and J . P . Howell threw off-speed pitches on 14 of their 18 pitches. In Game 2, Ortiz saw 17 fastballs and 15 off-speed pitches from Scott
a typical Youkilis at bat in the eighth that supplied the Sox with a vital insurance run. Youk fouled off a pair of J . P . Howell offerings as the veteran left-hander attempted to go inside/outside against him with his 88 mph fastball. Instead, Youkilis
producing a 0.77 ERA. Sox relievers produced a solid but less impressive mark of 2.40. The late-inning crew of J . P . Howell , Grant Balfour, Chad Bradford and Dan Wheeler was more impressive in their first-round series than even the Sox crew of Manny
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Tampa Bay lefty David Price before connecting for a pinch-hit double in the eighth against Rays' lefty reliever J . P . Howell . The new Red Sox lineup: Jacoby Ellsbury CF Marco Scutaro SS Adrian Gonzalez 1B Dustin Pedroia 2B David Ortiz DH
shift on two separate occasions, rifling a pair of singles into right field. The second of which came against lefty J . P . Howell , who had allowed hitters just three hits in 30 at-bats since Aug. 1. Ortiz then hustled to second on a wild pitch
reliever Kyle Farnsworth . They could not plate a run with two men on in the 10th against relievers Joel Peralta and J . P . Howell . Then, most dramatically, after three straight walks loaded the bases with no outs to start the 11th, the Sox
could be facing the kind of horrific numbers experienced a year ago. 29. RAYS: Closer: Bullpen-by-committee/ J . P . Howell ; 2010 Bullpen ERA Rank: 4th (3.33) Tampa Bay will have to hope that it can find another diamond in the rough
have a big year for them. They do. Dan Wheeler is good, but they need some more guys. They are not going to get [ J . P .] Howell back probably until June. I don't think [Randy] Choate is going to be an answer. So they will probably make
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