Game 13 - Red Sox v. Rays (@Fenway)

On the bright side, 5 2/3 innings of shutout ball from the bullpen today.

On the not-so-bright side, everything else.

Great quote from Pedroia today ""When you don't show up, you're going to get beat," he said. "Doesn't matter if it's the Rays or (bleeping) Brookline High."

And that's exactly how it feels right now, they just aren't showing up. The short highlights I saw on mlb.com (which by the way is my preferred way to catch up on games since there aren't video ads to sit through, like on espn), just showed an utterly incompetent outfield of Hermida, Hall and Drew screwing up play after play, turning outs into singles, and singles into doubles. Yes, I know it's early, but management has to do something about the OF, there's no way you can let Bill Hall go out there again and embarass himself. It's time to (a) put someone, either Cameron or Ellsbury, on the DL so they can call up a legit OF to play center and (b) do something about the lineup. The latter is clearly harder because there just aren't many options given the short bench they're playing with, but I'd get Lowell in there somewhere (either 3B or DH) on a regular basis, not every day, just get him regular time, probably at Papi's expense. Hell, get Bob Zupcic out of retirement and give him a shot in center, it can't get much worse.