The baseball sages say that momentum goes as far as the next starting pitcher and tonight, that momentum came to a grinding halt with Lackey on the mound. The guy the Sox brass paid the big bucks to in the off-season continues his puzzling rendezvous with mediocrity. He and Beckett are underperforming in tandem with one another. As for Dice-K, he's baffling everyone but the guys in the batter's box (except for that one start against the Jays, where he showed what he was capable of doing when he put his mind to it, or the stars aligned in his favor, or whatever). Lester and Buchholz are the only starters in the rotation who, for the most part, have it together.
The offense was stymied tonight by Cole Hamels, save for a first-inning dinger by V-Mart. Overall, the bats aren't the problem, except when Wake is on the mound. The Sox loaded the bases in the ninth when Papi came up to pinch-hit for Bill Hall. Papi gave the ball a ride, but, as was the case too many times tonight, the ball found a glove. After winning 3 in a row, the Phillies downed them 5-1.
The 2010 season for the Red Sox has been a bizarre, roller-coaster, Jekyll-and-Hyde sort of experience. However, from the "it could be worse" department, here's an article on the perplexing misadventures of a certain National League team from New York There's some seriously crazy shiznit going on in Queens.
A bit of good news for the Sox: Ells is back tomorrow!!!!
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!
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