Red Sox Offense, Bullpen Wilt Under Hot Texas Sun

Dice really settled down nice after the early innings. Two ERs on a sac fly and a perfect drag bunt. And on that 11 pitch at-bat he really got squeezed on pitch 10 from an ump that had a liberal strikezone all night.

for now. Big homestand coming up with the return of Pedroia before we head to Tampa. Making up a few games could be big, and hopfully we go down there and do some damage.

We actually do have to win games at a greater than .500 clip if we’ve got any shot for game threads numbered higher than 162.

So it didn’t happen, but the bullpen employed it on themselves.

This reminds me of my UConn Huskies the past few seasons; can’t close it out late. So I should be used to it, but not with the Red Sox.

Good thing I was in school in 2004 when they won those double NCAA Basketball championships. Freakin’ amazing.

Anyway, back to baseball, I’m wiped from this season. Still gotta hope the team will turn it around though, but it’s getting tiring really. I hate this bullpen.

I think I heard a fat lady sing…………… oh yeah that was Kelly Clarkson. Seriously, the last game in Toronto and game one in Texas are games the Rays and Yanks don’t lose. Tonight is nothing if we the games we should.

tons of games at home for a while now.

Jesus, 75bandwagon really went on a tear.

A couple less injuries and a couple different arms in the pen and we’re at the top of the division this year. Nothing to be sorry about this year, we just caught some bad karma somehow. I’m very impressed that this team had the, what did he call it, oh “winning mojo” even if he says we didn’t, a lot of players we’ve never heard of or who weren’t supposed to have very large roles, like Hall, McDonald, Nava, Kalish, Salty, Doubront, they came right in and provided us with a shot to win every game and kept us in the race. We got all we could expect from them and then some but it just wasn’t enough. No one’s fault and it certainly wasn’t for a lack of trying as much as he would like to pin it on one person.

But honestly? These games are flying by and we aren’t really gaining much ground and we still look like crap out there most of the time, and even when we look good, the bullpen finds a way to give up an important run or two. The bullpen isn’t changing any, that’s who we have, Okajima coming back can only be described as a downgrade. Unless Pedrioa comes back with the Death Star lasers we don’t have a realistic shot at over taking the Rays, unless we beat them in all 6 games, which we haven’t managed to do yet.