Red Sox 180? Not so fast
All of a sudden, the Boston Red Sox are contending with top notch teams. And all of a sudden this includes a sweepage over the best ball club in the majors (Tampa Bay Rays) and taking the last seven out of eight games against the New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, and the Philadelphia Phillies before this current home stand with the Kansas City Royals.
In April the Rays humiliated Boston on its home turf with a four-game sweep. The good news is somehow this didn't destroy the club as it won the next three series against the Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, and Toronto Blue Jays to conclude the month with a 11-12 record.
But where the hell did this come from?
Playing well? Playing stellar defense? No flipping way.
Where was this defensive unit a month ago? During Daisuke Matsuzaka's near no-hitter one week ago today, there was so much leather flashing around on the diamond that instead of Baseball Tonight's 'Top 10 plays' it was 'Top Red Sox plays.'
Whoa wait though. No sooner do the Bosox start coming around and gelling together, do they drop the first two games to the Royals with Bill Hall made his major league pitching debut in game two. He had a 1-2-3 inning.
His career earned run average, 0.00.
Interesting how these things work.
However not all is good. Josh Beckett's rehabilitation just took a step backwards and Jacoby Ellsbury is back on the 15-day disabled list. On the bright side, Mike Cameron is back, hooray!
Just when we thought we had the 2010 Boston Red Sox all figured out.
Dice-K, No no-no
So close, so close, but there wasn't a no-hitter tossed by Matsuzaka against the Phillies last Saturday. Marco Scutaro had no chance catching that blooper hit by Juan Castro in the eighth inning.
Wouldn't that have been something though? Dice-K throwing a no-hitter and without walking the bases loaded?
And the guy behind the plate calling the pitches, non-other than Jason Varitek who has caught four no-hitters. Tek would have had the most of all-time if all went according to plan.
Chances of this happening again though?
Try slim to none.Like what you see? Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/batterupbruno
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All of a sudden, the Boston Red Sox are contending with top notch teams. And all of a sudden this includes a sweepage over the best ball club in the majors (Tampa Bay Rays) and taking the last seven out of eight games against the New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, and the Philadelphia Phillies before this current home stand with the Kansas City Royals.
In April the Rays humiliated Boston on its home turf with a four-game sweep. The good news is somehow this didn't destroy the club as it won the next three series against the Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, and Toronto Blue Jays to conclude the month with a 11-12 record.
But where the hell did this come from?
Playing well? Playing stellar defense? No flipping way.
Where was this defensive unit a month ago? During Daisuke Matsuzaka's near no-hitter one week ago today, there was so much leather flashing around on the diamond that instead of Baseball Tonight's 'Top 10 plays' it was 'Top Red Sox plays.'
Whoa wait though. No sooner do the Bosox start coming around and gelling together, do they drop the first two games to the Royals with Bill Hall made his major league pitching debut in game two. He had a 1-2-3 inning.
His career earned run average, 0.00.
Interesting how these things work.
However not all is good. Josh Beckett's rehabilitation just took a step backwards and Jacoby Ellsbury is back on the 15-day disabled list. On the bright side, Mike Cameron is back, hooray!
Just when we thought we had the 2010 Boston Red Sox all figured out.
Dice-K, No no-no
So close, so close, but there wasn't a no-hitter tossed by Matsuzaka against the Phillies last Saturday. Marco Scutaro had no chance catching that blooper hit by Juan Castro in the eighth inning.
Wouldn't that have been something though? Dice-K throwing a no-hitter and without walking the bases loaded?
And the guy behind the plate calling the pitches, non-other than Jason Varitek who has caught four no-hitters. Tek would have had the most of all-time if all went according to plan.
Chances of this happening again though?
Try slim to none.Like what you see? Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/batterupbruno
Original Story:
http://batter-upwithbruno.blogspot.co...
