Sox: 2 Rays: 7
Allow me to compare my beloved baseball team's game today to a soda bottle whose cap has been left off too long. Fizzle, fizzle, fizzle...FLAT! After yesterday's terrific, feel-good opener, the Sox fell short today. Lester started out strong, striking out 5 in the first two innings. A throwing error by Youk in the third led to the Rays scoring their first run. However, Lester escaped further damage by getting Longoria to ground into a twin killer. Lester set down the side in order in the fourth, thanks to a diving play in right by Rocco, robbing his former teammate Dioner Navarro of a hit. In the fifth, however, the wheels came off. He walked former Red Sox Gabe Kapler and then a hit and run single by Iwamura advanced Kapler to third. Bartlett pulled off a safety squeeze bunt and Lester took a mental holiday, throwing to a surprised Tek at home instead of getting the sure out at first. To make matters worse, Haverhill boy Carlos Pena takes him yard after a double play scored the third Rays run. A four-run fifth inning for the pesky Rays. Ouch!
The Sox bats, they were plumb tired after yesterday's festivities. They took some free passes from Kaz, but the hits were few and far between, and when they happened, they weren't all that timely. They managed to scrape together two runs, but left too many guys to languish on the sacks. Deja Game 7, anyone? But, let's not be too hard on our Sox; it's only game 2 of 162 and no team ever goes 162-0. Being 1-1 sure beats where those Bronx boys are right now, doesn't it?
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!
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