Bob Lorenz' heart belongs to Papelbon

Tonight Bob almost choked invoking Papelbon's name when YES did its usual grand cut-in about the Red Sox game. He's transported doing his voice over of YES' homage. Poor Bob may not know 2 other AL closers outperformed his guy today (Tues., 7/24/07):

• Eric Gagne had two saves today.

• Bobby Jenks had two saves today.

Great job by Gagne and Jenks! P.S. I must be biased AGAINST east coast teams.

• I didn't create a post announcing Gagne's giving up a 3 run homer Monday night but I'm posting the POSITIVE news he had today.

The AP must have the same bias--they reported the good news today, but not the bad news yesterday(that I could find). Since they've seen fit to do that, I'll mention what they left out when noting the first 2-save day in Gagne and Jenks' career:

• Mariano Rivera has recorded 2 saves in 1 day 5 times. The most recent was May 3 of this year v the Rangers. (per Elias, half way through the AP article).

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