Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Game 27 - Red Sox v. Angels (@Fenway)

Several good things about tonights 5-1 win over the Angels, in no particular order:

(1) Another good start from Lester, seems to be coming out of his early-season funk as he's gone 15 innings in his last 2 starts combined with 1 ER and 16 K's

(2) Good defense, Scutaro made a heck of a play on the grounder from Morales (ironically this pushed across the only Angels run) and saw another nice place on the double play by Pedroia in the 8th against Abreu.

(3) Clutch hitting (at least in he 8th), granted it looked to me like Rivera misplayed Hermida's fly ball into a double, but we'll take it, and another double by Lowell to make it 5-1 was good to see.

On the downside Papi just looks terrible. While it's possible I've only seen his worst at bats given the small sample size of clips that I get to see, the stats are bearing out that he's just dreadful right now. Time to give up? No, but Lowell should be starting at DH at least 4x a week if you ask me.

Now if someone (yes I'm looking at you Mariners) could beat the Rays in a series, we might start to climb into this thing.

By the way, I really enjoyed the latest from Chad Finn on Boston.com, great way to summarize the sentiments of all Red Sox fans when it comes to the Rivera/Jeter/Posada/Pettite quartet.

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