Seriously, can the Red Sox have at least ONE series where Evan Longoria doesn't hit a home run off of them? He looks like freakin' Babe Ruth against the Sox. Chew on these stats: 8 HR and 26 RBI against the Red Sox this season with a .362 BA and 1.280 OPS! Sure, he's in the same division and faces the Sox a lot, but let's look at his stats against the rest of the AL East:
Yanks: 4 HR 9 RBI .250 BA .990 OPS
O's: 4 HR 10 RBI, .326 BA 1.100 OPS
Jays: O HR 7 RBI, .246 BA .634 OPS
He does some damage against the O's and even the Yanks, but the Jays, interestingly enough, have a way of keeping his bat quiet. He may be just one player, but he's a Sox-killer if I've ever seen one. For a kid who's, like, 24 with less than two years of major league experience under his belt, that's some serious ownage of one team. It doesn't help that he shares a last name with a Desperate Housewife...
Tonight it's up to Young Buch to step up and pretend the Rays are the Jays. In other words, get a WIN for the Sox at the Trop. Is that too much to ask? Winning a series in St. Pete?? If the Sox are a playoff-caliber team, it shouldn't be. The batters have to stop swinging at bad pitches and the skipper has to make the tough decisions necessary to give the team the best chance of winning. That means V-Mart behind the plate and Lowell at third. It means putting the best relievers in if the game is close or if the team is behind, but within reach. It means pulling struggling pitchers BEFORE things get out of hand. Shoot, Maddon pulls a reliever when he looks at him funny!
LET'S GO RED SOX! BEAT THOSE BLEEPIN' RAYS!!!!
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