May 24, 2008
Rich Harden Owns the Red Sox
Rich Harden made his fifth start of the season Friday night, his third against the Red Sox. He limited the Boston offense to two runs over six innings, striking out eight. The Athletics staff struck out twelve in total, with Manny Ramirez the only Red Sox player not to go down on strikes (he was 0 for 4). Rich is now 2-0 against the Red Sox this season with a 1.59 ERA. He's walked a high number of Boston batters, 10 in 17 innings, but he's record 23 K and allowed just 11 hits.
Tim Wakefield was getting the knuckleball up early as Oakland scored seven runs in the first three innings and took the game 8-3. That reduces Boston's lead in the east to 1 1/2 games over the Rays.
Posted by David Pinto at
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As someone who is nowhere near even amateur level at looking at mechanics, I've got to say, Harden looks like a mechanical nightmare. He doesn't appear to get any power from his front leg stride, and he's so slow-moving throughout most of his windup until he sort of whips the ball forward in a very short amount of time. I feel like I can see how he has shoulder problems.
