So Noted
Bronson Arroyo pitched a helluva game today (I'm assuming he's not coming back out for the ninth), holding the Tigets hitless through six, and allowing only over eight innings, with eight strike- outs to match.
Which is exactly the kind of ass-kicking performance the Red Sox needed. Which is why I'd like to be able to say the Sox ran away with this one. But they didn't. Oh they're winning - by a score of 2-to-1. And I'm scratching my head wondering how a line-up that looking pretty anemic in spots* managed to crank out a dozen hits with almost as many runners left on base.
Update: the Sox won, after a remarkably unscary ninth inning relief appearance by the Great Amazo.
*Today's batting order seemed especially weak. Consider (after nine):
Kevin Millar,batting fourth (Fourth!? What. The. Fuck?) : now hitting .245 after going 1-for-5.
Bill Meuller: now hitting .239 after going 0-for-4.
Jay Payton: now hitting an even .200 after going 0-for-4.
Mark Bellhorn: down to .231 after going 0-for-3.
Thankfully Trot (4-for-5) and Tek (3-for-4) continue to whack the shit out of the ball. Why oh why is Tek not hittting fourth when Manny has the day off?
Which is exactly the kind of ass-kicking performance the Red Sox needed. Which is why I'd like to be able to say the Sox ran away with this one. But they didn't. Oh they're winning - by a score of 2-to-1. And I'm scratching my head wondering how a line-up that looking pretty anemic in spots* managed to crank out a dozen hits with almost as many runners left on base.
Update: the Sox won, after a remarkably unscary ninth inning relief appearance by the Great Amazo.
*Today's batting order seemed especially weak. Consider (after nine):
Kevin Millar,batting fourth (Fourth!? What. The. Fuck?) : now hitting .245 after going 1-for-5.
Bill Meuller: now hitting .239 after going 0-for-4.
Jay Payton: now hitting an even .200 after going 0-for-4.
Mark Bellhorn: down to .231 after going 0-for-3.
Thankfully Trot (4-for-5) and Tek (3-for-4) continue to whack the shit out of the ball. Why oh why is Tek not hittting fourth when Manny has the day off?
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