July 18, 2007
The Future is Now
I thought the Red Sox schedule was going to be easy the rest of the year. They lose to the Royals tonight 6-5, dropping the rubber game of the series. The youngsters hit well for the Royals tonight. Billy Butler and Alex Gordon picked up two hits and two RBI each. Butler is off to a .311 start with his batting average, couples with a .351 OBA. After a slow start, Gordon is batting .303 since June 1. The Royals are starting to find some offense.
Update: The Yankees win, and the Red Sox now lead by seven.
Posted by David Pinto at
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Sox are completely cooked. They can't buy a run when it counts. They looks as bad as the '06 team did in the 2nd half last year. They need to make a move, but with those giant anchor contracts at SS and RF, they have nowhere to put anyone.
Yet another frustrating performance by the so-called sox offense.
I understand that 1 run decisions have a good deal of luck involved, and the sox' 14-16 record in these reflects the luck factor (just under 50%), but isn't it amazing that it once stood at 13-7! Losing 9 of 10 1-run decisions, while having such a low bull-pen ERA is amazing -- David, do you know of similar recent streaks?
Yesterday David wrote about how the Dodgers scored 10 runs and only left 1 man on base. The red sox have averaged leaving over 1 man on PER INNING in their 1 run losses. David also said that given the choice he'd rather have the team that gets a lot of guys on, even with the poor timing, because eventually they'll start driving them in.
Hopefully it'll start happening soon for the sox.
Yet another frustrating performance by the so-called sox offense.
I understand that 1 run decisions have a good deal of luck involved, and the sox' 14-16 record in these reflects the luck factor (just under 50%), but isn't it amazing that it once stood at 13-7! Losing 9 of 10 1-run decisions, while having such a low bull-pen ERA is amazing -- David, do you know of similar recent streaks?
Yesterday David wrote about how the Dodgers scored 10 runs and only left 1 man on base. The red sox have averaged leaving over 1 man on PER INNING in their 1 run losses. David also said that given the choice he'd rather have the team that gets a lot of guys on, even with the poor timing, because eventually they'll start driving them in.
Hopefully it'll start happening soon for the sox.
The Royals have a better record than the Red Sox over the last 40 games or so.
