Game 11 - Red Sox v. Rays (@Fenway)

Geez this is starting to get ugly. I know it's only 11 games into the season, but the Sox are losing games in unexpected ways (based on the offseason moves). After losing the previous game in extra innings, and the only reason it went extra innings was because of sloppy defense (first an error by Scutaro that allows Crawford to get on base, then a botched chopper by Beltre that allowed Crawford to score), they lose tonight due at least in part to a bad play by Cameron in center. Hmm, hold on a sec:

Error by Scutaro in Friday night's game
Bad play by Beltre in Friday night's game
Error by Cameron in Saturday night's game

Oh yeah, those are the three guys they signed to shore up the defense this year! I haven't actually seen the Cameron play yet, in the bottom of the 9th, the mlb.com Gameday feature went kerplunk and stopped updating after Pedroia's out, and it seems to still be stuck in that mode so I can't get to the wrapup for the video highlights. But in his last 266 games, Cameron only made 5 errors.

The bats came alive a bit in the 7th, I had the Gamecast going then and 'saw' Pedroia's and Youk's 2R homers, and really thought I had made the right choice to skip watching 'The Hurt Locker' with my wife, but then the rally fizzled in the 8th and 9th and the Sox go into Sunday's game at 4-7, already 4 GB behind the Yankees.

For the record, since she' still watching the movie (with generous use of fast forward), I'm at least feeling pretty good about skipping the movie, got my blog updated and some work stuff done (geeking out on UML diagrams in Visual Studio 2010), so it's not all bad.

And oh yeah, how about them Celtics!