STATS | BOS | SEA |
WINS | 0 | 3 |
RUNS | 12 | 19 |
HITS | 29 | 28 |
HRs | 1 | 4 |
AVG | .264 | .283 |
ERA | 5.54 | 2.79 |
GM1: SEA 9-4 WP-Weaver LP-Tavarez
GM2: SEA 8-7 WP-O'Flaherty LP-Lopez
GM3: SEA 2-1 WP-Davis LP-Pineiro
Batter's Composite Box:
PLAYER | SERIES STATS | COMMENT |
Pedroia | 5-13/R/2B/2BB/K | hit in 8 of 9 (.314) |
Papi | 4-14/R/BI/BB/3K | ...power... |
Manny | 0-10/3K | ...outage... |
Drew | 3-10/3R/2BI/3BB/2K | hit in 9 of 10 (.306) |
Youk | 3-10/2B/5BI/3BB/K | 3 ribbies in GM2 |
Lowell | 3-14/2B/3B/2BI/BB/5K | 6 for last 38 (.158) |
Tek | 2-12/5K | bad return to SEA |
Lugo | 0-5/R/BB/K/SB | 0-31;last hit: 6/14 |
Coco | 5-10/4R/2B/BI/2BB/SB | .459 (17-37) lst 10 |
Hinske | 2-4/R/HR/RBI/BB | big HR in GM2 |
Pena | 1-3/K | incomplete |
Cora | 1-5/2B/R | more PT please! |
Belli | DNP | no Wake |
Pitcher's Composite Box:
| PLAYER: | IP/H/R/ER/BB/K/HR | COMMENT: |
| Tavarez | 4.1/ 6/ 6/ 3/ 3/ 1/0/L | back to reality |
| Gabbard | 3.1/ 6/ 4/ 4/ 6/ 2/ 1 | awful start |
| Dice-K | 8/ 3 / 1/ 1/ 1/ 8/0 | awesome start |
| Timlin | 1.2/ 3/ 3/ 3/ 1/ 0/ 2 | awful relief |
| Lopez | 2.1/ 3/ 2/ 2/ 2/ 0/1/ L | lost GM2 |
| Paps | 1.2/0 /0 /0 /0 /2 /0 | 1.55 ERA |
| Oki | 1.1/3 /0 /0 /0 /1 /0 | 0.95 ERA (!) |
| Pineiro | 0.1/1/1/1/1/0/0/L | welcome back |
| D'carmen | 1.2/2 /2 /2 /0 /1 /0 | 1st runs all'd |
| Snyder | 1.2/ 1 /0 /0 /2 /1 /0 | lousy in GM1 |
A quick glance at these sorry stats tell you all you need to know about how Boston suffered its first three sweep of the season far away in the beautiful wooded countryside of the Pacific Northwest.
An unhealthy combination of piss-poor pitching (save for Dice-K and Papelbon) and untimely hitting (except for a couple of big knocks in GM2) conspired to doom the Sox, and when they did get a dose of both in Game 3, the lack of a quality arm left in the bullpen sealed the Sweepness In Seattle.
Sorry.
But I can't help being in a weepy, chick flick sort of mood after witnessing some of the worst play of the season.
The fact that Boston hit just one home run, by Eric Hinske no less, makes me want to grab a handful of hankies and just start blowing. And when I think about Sox pitchers issuing 16 walks in three games, including a mind-blowing four with the bases loaded, well I just want to grab a tub of Bon Bons, load up the Kleenex and just let the waterworks flow.
And if those numbers don't make you bawl, then how about 32 runners left in scoring position over three games, or a vertigo-inducing 17 fly ball outs yesterday, including 11 putouts by Ichiro, one shy of the major league record.
Why did they put a train station below SafeCo? Should've constructed an air traffic control tower for crying out loud.
Will somebody please give Ichiro a new pair of cleats, he must've worn a friggin hole through the soles of his other pair?!
Okay, the bitterness is starting to come through now. That's why I took a personal day today, you know, to get away from the game for a while, and so I hopped on the Gary Fisher and cruised down to the beach, where I happened to meet...
...another Sox fan, a dude named Kevin who grew up in Weymouth. S of course us South Shore boys shot the shit about everything from the Sox to...well, the Sox, with a little hockey and college football sprinkled in.
Point is even on a getaway day you can't escape this team. It's in the blood, we're born into it and we're everywhere, which is why I end up running into another member of RSN every time I leave the house and get get them out of my head.
I guess I really am going all chick flick. I better stop now.
Thankfully the Sox headed home after yesterday's heart breaker and they should right the ship with a four game wraparound weekend series against the lowly Rangers (yeah!)
Hopefully they left the need for hankies behind them.
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