The Brewers’ Gabe Kapler, who managed in the Red Sox organization last season, homered for the second straight day, doubled twice and drove in three runs as Milwaukee beat the Mets 9-7. Not bad for a guy who was the manager for Class A Greenville at this time last year.
“I wouldn’t try to label it — surreal, spectacular,” Kapler said. “I’m just playing baseball, enjoying being at the ballpark, enjoying being in the clubhouse, enjoying winning games, enjoying being with my teammates.”
Sox slam Tigers
Joe Crede and Paul Konerko each hit grand slams as the White Sox pounded the struggling Tigers 11-0.
Konerko’s homer came in the third off Kenny Rogers and Crede’s grand slam, his second this season, came in the fifth against Zach Miner as the White Sox won for the fifth time in six games over Detroit.
“We got Detroit at the right time,” White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. “Those guys are going to wake up sooner or later. They have unbelievable talent.”
When’s the last time Crede hit two slams in one season?
“High school, senior year,” he said of his days at Fatima High School in Westphalia, Mo.
Not such a big rivalry
What’s bigger than a Yankees-Red Sox game? NASCAR.
With Boston one strike from victory over their hated rival on Saturday, some unsuspecting TV viewers were in for a jolt: The Fox broadcast switched to auto racing.
A long rain delay during the game on Fox created the possibility that the game would overlap with the NASCAR race from Phoenix. Fox gambled that it could squeeze in both events — and came up two pitches short. The final out was televised on FX.
“For any frustration on fans’ behalf, we apologize,” Fox spokesman Dan Bell said Sunday.
•A construction worker’s bid to curse the Yankees by planting a David Ortiz Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday when the home team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot. After locating the shirt, construction workers jackhammered through the concrete and pulled it out.
“The first thought was, you know, it’s never a good thing to be buried in cement when you’re in New York,” Yankees President Randy Levine said. “But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?”
Insert your own George Steinbrenner joke here.
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