Game Preview: Sox @ Stanks

GM 2 3:55PM FOX HD
Wakefield (2-2, 2.08) vs. Karstens (0-1, 14.54)

I just got back from my son's Little League game. The good news is his team won, 10-9, thanks to a four run 9th inning, and he picked up the win by striking out the side in the top half of the inning.

The bad news is his team is the Yankees, and the team we beat was the Red Sox.

Let's hope that spectacular win wasn't a bad omen for this game.

But the way the Sox own the Stanks (the real teams) right now, I don't think a parade of black cats, 1000 broken mirrors and walking under a 400-ft ladder could derail what is quickly turning into an embarrassing (for NY) ownership of one team over the other.

Much like last season's 5-game Boston Massacre II sweep of the Sox in August deflated Boston's dreams of contending for a playoff spot, with a victory today the Sox could have a similarly demoralizing 5-game sweep of the Stanks.

Sure it's early, but when you beat another team into the ground enough times, it starts to get into their heads no matter what time of the year it is.

Tim Wakefield will take the mound today, and although he had a shaky outing last time out (8H, 3ER in a 7-3 loss to TOR), he still has been one of Boston's most consistent starters, posting a 2.08 ERA and not allowing any drop off after the Big Three (Schill-Beckett-Matsuzaka).

New York will try to stop the 7-game blood loss by sending Jeff Karstens back to the mound. Last time out the Sox roughed him up to the tune of 9 hits and 7 ERs in just 4.1 innings of work in a 7-5 Boston win last Saturday.

But whomever New York sends out there has been treated like a pinata by the Boston batters, and it will take a monumental effort by Karstens & the horrid NY bully to stop the avalanche of Red sweeping over the Bronx boys right now.


Go Sox!
Sweep II