It's ironic that after running the gauntlet against the Yankees, Twins, Phillies and Rays (three first place teams and the current AL Wild Card leader) on the road, the Red Sox returned home tonight and lost to the lowly Royals.
Is there such a thing as letting your guard down in a game like baseball that in general, has fewer emotional highs and lows than in sports like football or basketball, which have shorter seasons (so more pressure per game) and run on more emotion (due to the high energy levels involved)? It's hard to say that was the case tonight, especially after watching Hermida botch a flyball to left that led to a run in an eventual 1-run win by the Royals. Also hard to say that it was a letdown looking at the box score and seeing Dice-K walk 8 guys in 4 and 2/3 innings (en route to throwing 112 pitches in less than 5 innings). And yeah, its even hard to say after seeing Dice-K allow a run on a wild pitch (after loading the bases with only one hit). Ok, ok, ok...no letdown theory in this one, just bad pitching and some shaky defense.
Obviously the bigger news in the Boston sports scene these days is the Celtics, who looked pretty bad last night against the Magic and the media is now all over as a team that looks very vulnerable. I didn't watch the whole game and missed most of the controversial calls (here's the crummy YouTube video since for some reason, finding high-quality video of the game is harder than my 15min of blogging/night allows)
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