The Red Sox (14-8) will try to put last night's debacle behind them quickly and rebound against the Rays (9-14) in the second game of their 3-game series tonight. How bad were things for Boston last night? While the offense mustered no runs on one hit off of Tampa's Matt Garza (an infield hit at that), the pitching (most notably Josh Beckett and Javier Lopez) allowed 13 runs on 18 hits to the Rays. Not good. Things were so bad that Tuesday night's hero, Jonathan Van Every, actually came in to pitch for Boston (0.2 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 0 R). But the beauty of baseball is that 13-run losses still only count as one loss, and with 162-game schedule it's easy not to dwell on one disaster. Tonight Justin Masterson (2-0, 2.70 ERA) tries to get Boston back on track against Tampa's Adam Sonnanstine (0-3, 7.78 ERA) and even up this series. Let's go Sox!
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If Masterson has another strong start it's going to start to get difficult to think about putting him in the pen....which could mean a logjam when Dice-K and then Smoltz return.
I just hate being owned by the Rays. Let's win this.
ugly game again. Longoria kills us!
With the B's playing, it being Friday night and there being a horrible game Thursday I suppose it's not surprising there was so little action here.
Not a bad idea considering the outcome: 6-2 Rays.
Quick recap...
*Sox were up 2-0 heading to the bottom of the 5th on RBI's from Drew & Bay.
*Rays strike for 6 in the bottom of the 5th on HRs by Longoria (grand slam) and Pena.
*No scoring the rest of the way.
*The Sox only got 1 hit in 3.1 IP vs the Rays pen.
*MDC and Double R each pitched an inning of scoreless relief for the Sox.
3 Stars...
1.Pedroia (3-5, R)
2.Youkilis (2-3, BB, R)
3.Drew (1-2, 2 BB, RBI)
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