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Baseball Musings
April 05, 2007
Rotation Woes

The Boston Red Sox can't be too happy with their rotation right now. Schilling didn't command his pitches on Monday, and Beckett was wild last night:

Kevin Youkilis's two-run home run, Mike Lowell's two-run double, and two hits by J.D. Drew, including an RBI double, made an easy winner of Josh Beckett, who threw more balls (48) than strikes (46) in five innings but allowed just two hits and a run.

That sort of pitch count probably won't do against the better teams in the American League. Beckett got lucky last night. He's also lucky that Matsuzaka debuts today, as all the media is concentrated on him.


Posted by David Pinto at 08:42 AM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
Comments

I didn't think Beckett was all that bad. It was pretty clear he was having trouble with his curveball and most of his problems were stemming from that. As Remy so astutely pointed out, the Curve can be tough to throw in very cold weather. All things considered, he pitched well enough to win, and I'll reserve j8udgement until May/June.

Posted by: Derek at April 5, 2007 10:17 AM

Considering Beckett's problem last year was allowing home runs, he looked pretty darn good last night. He seemed to keep throwing the offspeed stuff even though they were not working for him. I'd much rather see the walks than him serving up fastball after fastball like last season. Not a bad debut.

Posted by: Mike at April 5, 2007 11:55 AM

If Beckett stops throwing his four-seam 90% of the pitches he throws, I have a lot of confidence that the rest of his game will come around.

Posted by: NBarnes at April 5, 2007 06:56 PM
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