It's been awhile since we've seen the Sox break out the brooms and that's what they did this weekend to the O's at Camden. A sweep, and especially a road sweep, is just what the team needed to turn their turbulent second half around. In the first post-trade deadline series, there was a close game (Friday night's 6-5 win), a shutout (Saturday's 4-0) and a slugfest (today's 18-10 rout) The bookend games were about the offense picking up the Richter Scale pitching and the centerpiece was a Beckett gem, with one-inning cameos from Oki and Bard.
V-Mart showed the Red Sox why they made the right choice in trading for him by knocking 6 hits with 5 RBI in the series. All but one of those hits came this afternoon, when he tied his career high with a 5-hit game. Saturday night he spelled Lowell by playing first while Youk slid across to third and today he was behind the plate. Speaking of Youk, the guy's seriously raking. He was relentless against the O's, going 10 for 12 in the series with 3 walks and 5 RBI. AA call-up Josh Reddick, a 22-year-old outfielder who has yet to see action in Pawtucket, made a Jacoby Ellsbury in 2007-esque splash, going 4 for 11 with a single, two doubles, and his first major-league long ball. He made his major league debut as a pinch-hitter on Friday and started both Saturday and Sunday, due to injuries to Drew and J-Bay. If he keeps hitting like that, it'll be hard not to keep him up with the big club. At the very least, if he gets sent back down it should be to AAA Pawtucket, and then re-called next month when the roster expands.
Sweeping this series was especially important for the Sox because the next two stops on this road trip are The Trop and the Wind Tunnel (a.k.a. The New Yankee Stadium). Lester will pitch in both series and Beckett will pitch in the Yanks series. The rest of the rotation is very sketchy (Wakey, come back!) Let's hope the offense produces like they did in the O's series because these two coming up are going to be very interesting...
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!!
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