Those Darn Red Sox
June 27, 2004
The Red Sox took two out of three against the Phillies this weekend. They won the Friday opening game, 12-1, lost yesterday, 9-2, and romped again today, 12-3.
Guess which game I spent more than $300 dollars taking my family to see?
I love baseball, and I often remind myself to love baseball first and the Red Sox second. I don’t like to see them lose, of course, but what really sucked about the 9-2 loss was the way they lost—they committed four errors in the field, and they only managed to score 2 runs despite out-hitting the Phillies, 14-13. Red Sox pitchers threw a staggering 174 pitches in 9 innings, only 112 of them for strikes, walked four batter, hit another one, and threw a wild pitch.
Today they turned it all around. They scored 12 runs on 12 hits, made a single uneventful error, and pitched well.
Go figure.
Posted by Bill Trippe at June 27, 2004 9:42 PM
