Well just about every baseball writer in America considers the Indians one of the best, if not the best, team in MLB.
And the Red Sox just took 3 out of 4 against them. So there’s that. Would have liked to see Kason finish what he started last night, but I have to give credit to Tito for not leaving him out there JUST to give him the opportunity for the win.
Yesterday, I complained about Tito, I complained about Mike Lowell resting and I complained about Wily Mo. Last night, they all told me to shut up and I couldn’t be happier to oblige! 🙂
Apparently, after being taken out of the game, Cliff Lee tipped his cap to the booing crowd. (He claims he didn’t, that he was just taking off his cap.) I have to say, that takes balls. Especially after putting up, what is it now, four lousy starts in a row? I’m never a fan of booing your own guy, but Lee HAS to know that he sucks right now. What did he expect them to do? They’re in a pennant race and not happy about the Sox embarrassing them in their own park. I don’t agree with what they did, but I sure understand it.
To the media after Wednesday’s game, Alex Cora blamed himself for the loss because he missed a sign while Jason Varitek was on first base, getting Tek thrown out. Cora is a stand-up guy (even though I’m pretty sure no one blames him solely for that loss.) Interesting to note that Coco Crisp, the guy more of us seemed to be upset with for his absolutely ridiculous slowing down while running home (and ultimately getting thrown out instead of scoring the tying run) refused to comment on it. Way to step up, Coco. (Although, I’ll take the two hits from last night, thanks!)
Speaking of hits, Sox took advantage of the lowly Mr Lee and had 17 of them last night. Let’s keep those bats hot against the DRays, fellas.
Royals finally cooperated by kicking Yankee butt. So the Sox are back up 7.5 games, and the Yankees are down 7 in the loss column. Yankees and Orioles have that funky ‘end one game and then playing an entire game’ thing going on tonight, so there’s a lot of baseball to be had in Baltimore.
In our neck of the woods, we have Wakefield, Lester and Matsuzaka going against Hammel, Shields and Kazmir. Then there’s a day off before I’m back at Fenway on the dreaded day of the trading deadline.
I was at Fenway on July 3oth last year. The rumors that spread around that place sucked the fun right out of the game. The Angels kicking the Red Sox with 16 hits and 10 runs didn’t help either. Oh well, that won’t happen this year!
So good vibes to Timmy and our bats tonight. The guys might be a little tired, but I’m sure they’ll come through!
Have a great Friday folks!
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