Hughes Who?
The most impressive fact about Boston’s 8-5 victory over New York in the rubber game of their three game series at Fenway is that they won without Ortiz, Lowell, Papelbon, or Okajima.
Other thoughts:
- Dice-K returned to his 2007 form of nibbling at the edges of the plate and hurting himself more than the opposing offense. Knowing that the bullpen is short and given an early lead it’s simply inexcusable.
- In the bottom of the 4th Jason Varitek came to the plate with the bases loaded and one out. Instead of waiting for a pitch he could drive or taking a pitch in hopes of getting ahead in the count he immediately hit a weak grounder to second that turned into an easy inning ending double play. That’s why he’s the captain.
- In the battle of pitching phenoms Phil Hughes and Clay Buchholz the Red Sox hurler wins this battle. Buchholz pitched well in game one while tonight Hughes couldn’t get out of the third inning.
The Yankees were one brilliantly pitched game from being swept. Other than Big Papi’s continuing slump, and unless it’s injury related I have no worries, the Red Sox have to be happy with the results. Now off to Cleveland and that incessant drumming.
