Game Preview: Sox @ Oakland GM4

Schilling (5-2, 3.91) vs. Blanton (5-3, 3.81)
3:30P Oakland Coliseum

Not much needs to be said about this game except the Sox need a win.

And what hurler has been the one the Sox can turn to when they've needed a win over the past 3+ years?

That's right, the bloody socked blogger himself, Mr. Curtis Montague Schilling.

Today's matchup features two pitchers with very similar stats, but one thing separates the two besides the 14-year age difference between Schill & Blanton- Schilling is a money pitcher who takes his game up a notch when his team is in need of a win.

I don't have to catalogue all the times he has done this in his career, and I don't want to.

All I (we) want is for Curt to go out and shut down the A's and bring this losing skid to a halt, and he might just have to shut them out in order to do it, the way the offense has been operating out on the Left Coast.

C'mon Curt, we know you've won bigger games than this in your career, but no one cares about that now. The Nation needs a win and needs it badly, and we're counting on you to get if for us.

And if you can just tell the batters to avoid the double plays, that'd be great, too.