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Heading into Tuesday's game with the Texas Rangers, Boston had a 4-9 record after a four game sweep by Tampa Bay which represented their worst start to a season since 1996. Although we are not yet 10% into the 2010 season maybe it's not time to panic and in most divisions this would be the case but they happen to play in the AL East for one and, more importantly, both the Rays and the Yankees have lost less games combined than Boston has won.
The Red Sox can't blame this start on some bad luck or negative variance, there are some gaping holes in the team. The 2010 Boston was going to be one that concentrated on run prevention rather than run scoring, and one cog in that machine was the free agent signing of John Lackey over the offseason couple that with the defensive additions of Adrian Beltre, Mike Cameron as well as Marco Scutaro and Boston should be stopping the runs leaking out. However, entering today, the starting rotation had a 3-7 record along with a league worst ERA of 5.15 and the newly signed defensive trio had a combined five errors. That's not even mentioning the hitting where Victor Martinez and Kevin Youkillis were hitting below were hitting under .220; J.D. Drew and David Ortiz were hitting below .160.
And so today the line up was tweaked as Jacoby Ellsbury (ribs) and Mike Cameron (kidney stone) were put on the DL, Ortiz was moved down a spot in the order and the Red Sox got the win as they came from behind in the bottom of the 8th before winning 7-6 in the bottom of the 9th. Matthew 7:15 advised of the need to beware of false prophets; similarly the Red Sox should beware of false dawns. Specifically, Tim Wakefield gave up six runs at the rotation's ERA jumped to 5.47 although it was an error free day for Boston. Martinez had a good day at the plate as he went 3-for-4 but behind the plate, his inability to throw out base runners continued. Before today Martinez was 1-for-15 throwing out base stealers and today, despite the job being more difficult when your pitcher is only throwing 65mph, there were a total of nine stolen base attempts and all of them successful which tied the record for Boston.
The win was a start for the Beantowners but Boston aren't going to score 7 runs ever game (their average before today was 5.3) and they certainly can't afford to give up 6 each time.
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The Red Sox can't blame this start on some bad luck or negative variance, there are some gaping holes in the team. The 2010 Boston was going to be one that concentrated on run prevention rather than run scoring, and one cog in that machine was the free agent signing of John Lackey over the offseason couple that with the defensive additions of Adrian Beltre, Mike Cameron as well as Marco Scutaro and Boston should be stopping the runs leaking out. However, entering today, the starting rotation had a 3-7 record along with a league worst ERA of 5.15 and the newly signed defensive trio had a combined five errors. That's not even mentioning the hitting where Victor Martinez and Kevin Youkillis were hitting below were hitting under .220; J.D. Drew and David Ortiz were hitting below .160.
And so today the line up was tweaked as Jacoby Ellsbury (ribs) and Mike Cameron (kidney stone) were put on the DL, Ortiz was moved down a spot in the order and the Red Sox got the win as they came from behind in the bottom of the 8th before winning 7-6 in the bottom of the 9th. Matthew 7:15 advised of the need to beware of false prophets; similarly the Red Sox should beware of false dawns. Specifically, Tim Wakefield gave up six runs at the rotation's ERA jumped to 5.47 although it was an error free day for Boston. Martinez had a good day at the plate as he went 3-for-4 but behind the plate, his inability to throw out base runners continued. Before today Martinez was 1-for-15 throwing out base stealers and today, despite the job being more difficult when your pitcher is only throwing 65mph, there were a total of nine stolen base attempts and all of them successful which tied the record for Boston.
The win was a start for the Beantowners but Boston aren't going to score 7 runs ever game (their average before today was 5.3) and they certainly can't afford to give up 6 each time.
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