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| Bobby's Inaugural Loss |
Last year, without the intrusion of the WBC, the baseball season started for Boston on April 5th against the eventual AL Champion Tigers. Things might have been different for '
Bobby Valentine's Boys' if things had gone just a little differently. After a valiant ninth-inning comeback to tie the game at two,
Mark Melancon and Alfredo Aceves coughed up the game-winning score for Detroit. After that, the deluge. The big comeback was against the previously All-World closer
Jose Valverde (who was 49 for 49 in save opportunities in 2011). Of course, Valverde would later implode in the post-season and has only now been re-signed to a minor league deal by the Tabbys. The loss wasted a superb outing by
Jon Lester, who never really recovered for the rest of 2012. Ah, what might have been.
