It sure is nice to play a team that is struggling as much as the Sox are. While there (once again) was plenty wrong with the performance tonight, its good to see a couple of wins strung together, especially since they were late/last at-bat ones.
Beckett's outing (7 IP and 7 ER) was ugly, not sure why he pitched the 7th? Not that Josh Hamilton is the same guy that made the All Star team and finished 7th in the AL MVP voting in 2008, but why not go to the bullpen once the tying run came to the plate and Beckett's pitch count was getting up to 100 or so pitches? It wasn't like he was lights out tonight (12 baserunners in 7 innings), and with guys in the pen pitching well over the last few days, seems like it was time to make a move.
That being said, very happy for Mike Lowell to get in the lineup and have a big impact. Maybe the combination of Lowell in the spring and Papi in the summer (if he can heat up like he did last year), can put up reasonable DH numbers this year. Speaking of Papi, I was getting some coffee in the kitchen at work the other day and a fellow New Englander and Sox fan was talking to another guy about baseball. The other guy made some comment about how Papi was washed up and I quickly blurted out something like 'oh yeah, well he hit 29 home runs with 99 RBI last year!'. The funny thing is, I have no idea how accurate those numbers are, but given the conviction with which I delivered my statement, nobody questioned me at all. It's one of the interesting things that I've noticed about living in Seattle...there's lots of nice people here, almost too nice. So nice that people rarely question things, and even when they do, it's done in a 'hmm, well maybe we should investigate a little more to see if thats correct' instead of saying 'wtf, are you kidding me? he only hit 28 home runs last year you dingbat!'
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