It's About Time
The Red Sox are now, get this, 2-41 when trailing entering the 8th inning. Talk about clutch. Clutch baby!
With the Red Sox down 1-0 entering the 9th, Mike Lowell tied the game with a solo shot and Coco Crisp delivered Jason Varitek from 2nd a few batters later to pull out the come from behind win. Their 2nd 8th inning or later come back this year. Yippee.
This was a good win and hopefully one that will jog the collective memory of this team. Specifically that they used to be very good (i.e. in April and May).
Jonathan Lester was outstanding pitching 7 innings of 1 run ball. It's just one start, but it had to give him a confidence boost.
While this was a good win, the Red Sox did only score 2 runs. J.D. Drew has been a non-factor of late...er...all season and with Manny and Ortiz not producing like years past, the Red Sox are very lucky the pitching has been so good. If the Red Sox had last year's pitching staff, this would probably be a disaster season. I'm now convinced the Red Sox should have given up Wily Mo Pena and either Manny Delcarmen or Justin Masterson to get Jermaine Dye. Since the trading deadline, Dye has gone: .351/.442/.838 (1.280 OPS) with 5 HR's, 11 runs and 10 RBI. Imagine if the Red Sox had plugged Dye into J.D. Drew's spot. Drew since the deadline: .394/.474/.545 (1.019 OPS). Not bad you say? Check out his production, 5 runs, 0 HRs and 4 RBI.
There's no point in complaining as the waiver trade deadline isn't likely to help the Red Sox much and once Pena is dealt and Bobby Kielty promoted, this team won't be much different. Let's hope the offense, specifically Drew, Ortiz and Manny, only our 3-4-5 hitters, figure out their respective issues.
More Tampa Bay tomorrow and then an off-day Thursday.
Comments
awesome comeback. I wouldn't complain about not scoring for 8 innings. One very good pitcher they faced.
I watched Manny get called out on strikes and sat there and Lowell looked really confident. I thought he might and as I was talking myself out if it (1-41 as you mentioned) he jerked it out. He was all over that pitch.
Nice win and Gagne looked better at least.
Posted by: blmeanie | August 14, 2007 11:51 PM |
Funny, Blmeanie, when I saw Manny go down, my hopes plummeted. Glad Lowell's confidence wasn't rocked. Great game.
Posted by: Andy | August 15, 2007 04:00 PM |