Sox Thoughts - Bad Luck on the West Coast

The one game the Sox win this series and I don’t even get a chance to write about it before the Sox lose another one…

Well, that’s baseball for you.  I was actually walking through Boston last night after seeing the National Tour of Spring Awakening (which was amazing, by the way) and caught the score of the Sox game through a restaurant window.  “Oh good!”  I thought.  “We’re up 4-0.”  As it just so happened, I was just in time to see Yuniesky Betancourt hit a two run homer to change the score to 4-2. 

Don’t get me wrong – we won last night.  Great ball game.

Today wasn’t so great.  I got into my car just in time to hear the 9^th inning where Green made the error and Franklin Gutierrez hit the walk off single to win it for the M’s.   “Great,” I thought.  “Did anything good happen in this game?” 

Actually, yeah.  A lot of good things happened.  Masterson, although giving up 9 hits, pitched 6.1 innings and struck out 6.  He did not allow any walks.  That’s a huge improvement after his last start where he couldn’t seem to find the plate.  Another plus for the game today was that Drew continued to swing a hot bat by hitting his 6^th homer of the year.  God knows we need hot bats with all the injuries and slumps some of our better hitters are going through right now.  And how about the fact that none of our relief pitchers gave up any walks, with the exception of the free pass that Ramirez gave Ichiro in the 9^th?  Good stuff boys, good stuff (those boys included Okajima and Delcarmen). 

Well I’m certainly not happy with how the game turned out today, but I can’t say that I’m unhappy with how the Sox played either.  Although the fact that we didn’t score any runs after having the bases loaded with nobody out isn’t really good baseball.  I bet the Sox will take 2 out of 3 against Toronto.  I don’t care how hot they are right now.  We’ll be getting Papi and Youk back this week and I think that’ll make a difference. 

Keep the Faith!