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Score. Early and often. And win.

At this point, I don't care how we do it. I don't care if we go hitless and score 8 runs on walks and errors and win 8-7. just win.

Red Sox Lineup Ellsbury CF Pedroia 2B Gonzalez 1B Youkilis 3B Ortiz DH Drew RF Crawford LF Saltalamacchia C Iglesias SS Lackey P Jed Lowrie is sick tonight, so that's why Iggy is playing.

Mark my words. By May 27th, the Red Sox will be in 1st place in the AL East.

5/10 at TOR The Good - Adrian Gonzalez 2 HR, Ortiz and Ells had 3 hits, and Pedroia looks to be coming out of his slump (2 hits and a walk). Also Rich Hill looked great. The Bad - Adrian Gonzalez's untimely error, our defense against baserunning, and Youk went 0-5 with 2 more K's, looking lost as ever. The Ugly - Lester's inability to find the plate during the first inning, poor performance by him. Also - our offensive inefficiencies. We hit .356 as a team with a .375 OBP in yesterday's game, yet we couldn't push across more than 6 runs? An offensive outburst like that should push 10-12 runs across.

*Pacing the floors* "It's only early May. It's only early May. It's only early May." Ok. I'm insanely frustrated with this team, but I'm going to try to take a step back and be realistic. After starting 2-10, the Red Sox have now gone 15-9 in their last 24 games. Doesn't seem like it at all. To me, it seems like we've been watching .500 baseball since then, but we haven't. We've seen .625 baseball, and if you ask me, we still aren't clicking, so here's what that means. After starting 2-10, if the Red Sox play at a .625 clip for the remainder of the season, they will end up at 96-66 on the season. Basically, just keep playing like we have been since April 16th. Here's the good thing about that. I don't think there is a single analyst, opponent, or fan that would say that the Red Sox are playing up to their potential right now. And even with that, the Sox are still finding ways to put themselves in a position to win 95-96 games this year. As bad as that loss was last night, we shelled out 16 hits and hit 3 HR. An insanely uncommon "error" (that wasn't an error in the box score) by Gonzalez, an outing by Lester where he found himself getting squeezed early and often, dumb baserunning mistake by Ellsbury, and an uncommon bullpen outing by Bard all lead to a 6-5 10 inning loss. We'll figure it out. I know everyone in here wants to beat their heads against a wall right now after this game but we're close. Really, really close to breaking out. And how sweet will it be to finally hit that stride (and .500) in the Bronx?

it's a 2 game set.

we can't f***ing get to .500 it's f***ing pathetic. it really is

mother f***er.

pretty slick pick there by iggy

Oops Rajai. Better swing now because you're getting rung up on anything 3-4 inches off the plate after that move.

Damn. Off the bat I thought that may have a chance.

My dear God. Can you imagine if Gonzo goes deep AGAIN?!?

this is such a scary stadium to be in extra innings. Ball absolutely flies.

Can we get a repeat of my call earlier?

Gotta get Ellsbury on base here. Swipe 2nd and let Pedey or Gonzo drive him in

We need to score early so we don't have to go 14 innings this game and tax our BP even more

damn. at least Gonzo is due up 4th next inning. 3 HR? hmm...

Crawford drills one here. EDIT: Meaning a HR

Iggy just said YES! I'M ON BASE!!!

Yup. Homerun and TOR forfeits

Come on Iggy!!! Bust one into the stands big guy!

Wait, wait. Am I the only one that has a boner right now?