Ouch (12-9 loss on Saturday)
Ouch (3-2 loss in 10 innings on Sunday)
Bleh. Ok, you get the gist...I'm not feeling so hot about what happened over the last three days. It's bad enough to get swept for the second time this year, and losing the fourth series (out of 8), but its just compounded by the fact that it was (a) against the Orioles and (b) lost with our best reliever in the game after the guy that is nominally the best starter on the staff started the game.
So much for the hopes of a 5-1 road trip and getting back to respectability (not to mention over .500), the Red Sox are now 7 games behind the streaking Tampa Bay Rays, there are only two teams further out of first place in their respective divisions right now:
Baltimore (11 GB)
Houston (8.5 GB)
Hopefully we don't see the Orioles passing us on the way down. Even worse (and yes I am piling on now) the Red Sox are the only team that is overachieving in the AL East now (at least according to the Expected Win/Loss stats that espn.com keeps which uses Bill James' Pythagorean Expectation formula to calculate how many wins and losses a team should have based off of runs scored and runs allowed. While not quite as disasterous as Krispy Kreme's attempt to invade New England (and take on the 800 LB gorilla known as Dunkin' Donuts), this start is making feel about as down as I did after I ate my first Krispy Kreme.
Lots of hype, and disappointing taste.
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