Why hit for Ramirez? It's not like we need more runs at this point. We need the guy who just pitched a 12-pitch inning back on the mound...
EDIT: And I'm pretty sure he could have done as well as that, if not better...
Phillies pitching: 9 BB
Boston pitching: 1 BB
And there's your difference, folks. Well, the 3 errors in one inning helped, too.
EDIT: Make it 10 BB now.
Run differential is weird. I was checking to see what the standings were like on my birthday for the past few years, and in 2005 IIRC Washington was the only team in the NL East with a negative run differential... and they were in 1st place. Crazy stuff.
It's nice that as MDC and Ramirez take steps back from their insane starts, we get Okajima becoming unhittable. It's nice to always have that one guy at any given time who's just got it all working.
...aaaaaand spoke too soon.
Well, actually, the truth is more like "insomniac in a dorm room in Africa with a can of Pringles", but hey, you take what you can get.
Holy cow, a 1-2-3 inning with less than 25 pitches!
Anybody know why there's no Drew today? Just a regular day off?
Durrrr... Bastardo's a lefty. OK, never mind. I'm just missing Drew's 3.753 OPS (or something like that) in the #2 slot.
I'd be hacked off, too. I always get more hacked off when the umps cost the Sox a game than when the Sox costs the Sox a game.
That said, one extra run only gets you to the bottom of the 9th, and I'm thinking that Sox bullpen vs. Yanks bullpen in Fenway is a likely Yanks loss anyway. But I get your point.