1.   At best, the Red Sox would have faced a difficult situation, two outs and a runner at second and a need for a clutch hit.

2.   At that point, they probably had a more pressing need for innings than clutch hits.

3.   Before the sixth inning, the Rangers were plagued by a failure to deliver a clutch hit.

4.   Bip Roberts gets clutch hits.

5.   After all, Nelson has never won a Diamondbacks game with a diving catch or a clutch hit.

6.   Again, the clutch hit was missing.

7.   But the clutch hits that had escaped the Mets throughout the game finally started to find the gaps.

8.   But the Rangers are a team in desperate need of a clutch hit, an area in which Greer has so often come through in the regular season.

9.   Clutch hits were what the other team got.

10.   Clutch hits are in very scarce supply.