Sox: 3 Cards: 9
I can't remember the last time the Sox lost two in a row at home. I literally can't remember! After that successful road trip, the first above .500 road trip of the season, I believe, the Sox seem to have their home play and their road play mixed up. It's all backwards! Up is down, down is up, good is bad, bad is good, Sox win on the road, Sox lose at home...What's going on here?
Dice-K was dicey from the get-go, struggling mightily just to get through the first inning, giving up four runs before the Sox had their first at-bats. Then, in the second inning, he couldn't record a single out and loaded the bases. Reliever Chris Smith made his major league debut with the bases loaded and no one out. He whiffed the first batter he faced, but the second one took him deep. Way deep. Grand salami deep. But you can hardly blame it on the young righty, who was put in the worst jam a pitcher can inherit. He got out of that inning and had back-to back 1-2-3's while the Sox avoided a shutout by scoring two runs on a Cora double. The only other run the home boys would score was this month's home run king, JD Drew, who now has one less homer on the season than Manny, going deep in the 6th. The Cards added another run in the 7th, by pitcher-turned-outfielder Rick Ankiel to make it 9-3. The Sox got in a huge hole early on and I think that demoralized them at the plate. Let's hope their power lefty Lester can right the ship tomorrow.
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!
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