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Twins vs Red Sox June 18th----A hat trick for a welcome change???????

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A rare weekday game for the Red Sox as they prepare for a West Coast getaway that will take them to Oakland and Seattle, but first some unfinished business like a series sweep for a welcome change. It can be done because the team has done it twice, and can anybody disagree that we could use one right about now?

 

The Twins will send Kyle Gibson, 6-5 with a decent 3.55 ERA, to the hill. Last time out Gibson shut out the slumping Tigers for seven innings and has pitched well lately, his ERA for the last few games in the low twos. We send John Lackey with an 8-4 record, a 3.24 ERA and approximately a 1.20 WHIP. He has been one of our two most dependable starters.

 

What we need is to get away from the one and two run dance and try to give Lackey a half-dozen tallies to work on----and that means more productive hits and maybe a dong or two. What the hell has happened to our power? We could use Papi, Bogey, Nap and even Pedroia---or, hell, anybody, to put one or two balls in the seats. Anyway we can win this game; we just have to go out and do it.:o:o:o:o:

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I like the sound of many extra base hits.

 

Yes walks are good!!!!!

 

But this team needs extra base hits to be able to score runs in bunches.

 

GO SOX!!!!!!

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Hopefully the offense can score more than 2 for the first time in 5 days.

 

I'll happily take being 2-2 during that stretch.

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Apart from two or three starts this season Lackey has been so consistent, will be really interesting to see if he holds that up the secondhalf of the season.

The same can be said about the offense, though. Just that their consistency is more of the worrying degree. I guess you can't expect this team to be great at offense every year, but this drop from one year to another is something else, what is happening?

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Theycertainly are in no position to waste an outing by Lackey like that, but what do I know. They wasted Peavysrare decent start a few daysago, so maybe it is what it is.
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Well we got the hat trick in this series and let's be honest about it----we needed a sweep. I don't know what it will do for our momentum or morale heading out to my semi neck of the woods but it shouldn't hurt. Great pitching by Lackey but our offense once again did a disappearing act until the tenth but what we all said we needed, a couple of bombs, well we got back to back from our two main power sources. A terrific win and this time the team saved Koji instead of the other way around. We owe him about a zillion more. Now if we can only start hitting as a team...........:rolleyes:
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Incredible win. Lackey was fantastic today. Hopefully this gives us some confidence. Oakland is going to be a tough series. The offence still worries me a bit, but if we keep pitching like this we should be able to get a good streak going.
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