Youk gives me great hope! Photo by Kelly O'Connor/sittingstill.net and used with permission.
Still have a little left to write about Baltimore but there’s no way I can’t first comment on last night’s game.
Bottom line? If you’re going to lose, Red Sox, let’s do it in less time, okay?
Then again, it bothers me less to see them lose a 13-inning game. It sucks that they lost but, at that point, you have to think when you leave the bases loaded on the road in extra innings that it will come back to bite you on the ass. It did and they took the loss.
Brad Penny is on the mound today. It seems like he pitches a lot on Wednesdays – I’m usually live blogging his starts. Tonight there won’t be a live blog. I’m not even sure of being able to see the game since I’ll be heading to Pawtucket early today for tonight’s game. (Given it’s a weekday and my mode of transportation limits my options, I might have to leave the PawSox game early but we’re heading down nonetheless.) Michael Bowden has the start tonight and it will be the first time I see him pitch since his Major League debut at Fenway last year.  I’m looking forward to seeing him on the mound again even if it turns out to only be for an inning or two!
I’m considering live blogging Thursday’s or Friday’s game (although the idea of live blogging a Sox/Yanks game really doesn’t fill me with joy) but we’ll see how those plans go. We have a beautiful day to get past last night. It’s tough to do, I know, when the loss is as annoying as this one, but it’s just one game. A win tonight and the Sox split the series heading into New York.