Final Score: Boston Red Sox 7, New York Yankees 6In a night that was supposed to be centered on the performance of Dice K, the focus was quickly shifted to an awakening offense that let it self be known with a gut busting fireball screaming out of the park.
Well actually it was back to back to back to back gut busting fireballs screaming out of the park.
I was rendered speechless as Manny, Drew, Lowell and Tek all decided to unleash hell on the poor (very poor) and unsuspecting Chase Wright. For only the 5th time in history 4 guys got together and dropped the hammer causing the ultimate pain. Last time this happened it was in LA with the Dodgers and Drew hit one of those as well. This didn’t time it didn’t win the game, but it was freaking unreal. Lowell (who is the best “thrown in on the trade” player ever) went deep again with a go ahead blast off the always enjoyable Scott Procter. He didn’t even record an out. How in the world do the Yankees expect to get to Mo Rivera this year?
When “Wild Thing” blasted over the PA and Paps came in to shut the door, I was admittedly nervous (he has pitched a ton in the last 5 days). But my worries were laid to rest along with A-Rod as he weakly grounded out to 3rd to end it. So much for Mr. April.
To get back to Dice K for a moment… what’s with this guy? He plunks A-rod and Jeter, he looks really wild and out of control, he lets up a bunch of line drives and then he is lights out. There is almost no rhyme or reason to any of this. He has quality stuff, 8 different pitches that he can go to at all times and yet sometimes he like… FORGETS that he’s pitching. Or at least it looks that way to me. I really don’t understand him yet and that may just be because he hasn’t found his groove. Do I think he is worth the 50 Billion yen we paid for him? Probably, but I think he needs to step up a bit.
Final thoughts on the series:
Every Red Sox starter let up at least 5 runs. Yanks didn’t win one game.
Coco and Pedroia have started to redeem themselves in my eyes. Coco has had some big hits (and I missed the hell out of him tonight) and Dustin finally got his first extra base hit and was money in the field (amazing diving catch). Change his grade from an “F” to a “D plus”.
Last time the Sox swept the Yankees in Fenway was 1990. I had a Star Wars bedspread back then.
Buy a Papal-Bon shirt. He Saves.
I know the Yankees starters are injured, but the biggest problem seems to be their bullpen and bench depth. Josh Phelps ended up catching the last inning of this game. They look exactly like the Sox did at the end of last year.
Wily Mo has a chance to strike out over 100 times in under 200 AB’s. I don’t even have a joke for this one.
Manny is starting to heat up. Run and hide pitchers… run and hide.
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