I will give the Red Sox all the credit they rightfully deserve for their comeback in this series and particularly against Mo in Game 4, but him getting the blown save here is pretty misleading. He faced three batters and got all three out with relative ease. Varitek did what he had to do to get the runner in so tip your cap to him. However, the storyline that "MO BLEW ANOTHER ONE" is a bit ambiguous. With how baseball is officially scored he did technically blow the save, but everyone knows the blame belongs to the guy he bailed out who completely unraveled on the biggest stage. Tom Gordon was pretty good as a set-up man most of the 2004 season. Although when the pressure was really on you could tell he didn't have any guts to get the big outs and he was also completely rattled by Boston's scary lineup. By the second half of the season, it was also obvious that he was running on fumes which didn't help matters. Torre was notorious in those days for overworking his top relievers behind Mariano. When the playoffs rolled around, Gordon was more of a liability who couldn't be trusted when it mattered most and this performance in Game 5 completely exposed him. Three batters faced - bomb, walk, base hit - and poor Mo had to inherit that mess. Sorry for the long rant. Fuck Tom Gordon.
As a Sox fan, there's no question that Mo and Gordon were carrying that pitching staff all year. As elite as their hitting was that season, 101 wins was definitely an overachievement considering how poor their starting pitching was.
@@Surfer041……blame ARod in the 8th. He has to come through. And Torre was out managed. He made some bad decisions. Like having Olerud bat against Pedro in game 7. They had a little momentum then and another hit could have made it interesting. Olerud had no chance to do anything there. Bottom line is the Sox got it done when they needed to. The Yankees didn’t. Plus Tom Gordon shouldn’t have been anywhere near a pitchers mound in that series. And why was Rivera doing mop up work in game 7?
