Behind a Curt Schilling who looked about five years younger, the Red Sox beat the Rockies again last night to take a two game lead in the World Series:
BOSTON (AP) — There’s more than one way to rough up the Rockies.
Boston’s big bats battered them in the World Series opener. Then October ace Curt Schilling and a stingy bullpen shut down Colorado in Game 2.
Relying more on guile than pure gas, Schilling pitched Boston to a 2-1 victory Thursday night and a 2-0 lead in the World Series over the suddenly stagnant Rockies.
“I’m actually ecstatic with the way we’re playing,” Boston third baseman Mike Lowell said. “We’re on the verge of winning a World Series.”
Lowell hit a tiebreaking double in the fifth and the Red Sox got 3 2-3 innings of shutout relief from Hideki Okajima and Jonathan Papelbon to win their sixth straight Series game, including a sweep of St. Louis in 2004.
Meanwhile, Fox’s ratings for the Series seem to be up signficantly:
Game one of the World Series on Fox on Oct. 24 between the Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox produced a 10.5 household rating, up 31 percent over last year’s game one between the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers, according to Nielsen Media Research fast nationals ratings. It is the largest game one rating for a World Series game one telecast since 2004 when the Boston Red Sox vs. St. Louis Cardinals game produced a 13.7. The Rockies-Red Sox game was watched by an average 16.9 million viewers.
Not bad.
