As I sat through yesterday’s debacle against the Toronto Blue Jays, the one thing that went through my mind is didn’t we just see this last weekend. To me it felt I was watching the movie Groundhog Day.
It was not a good day for Jon Lester and the Boston Red Sox yesterday. Lester could not get into a rhythm on the mound and had trouble with his location and command.
“Name it,” Lester said. “Nothing was really working. Rushing through my delivery. Not a good tempo. When I did get the ground balls that I needed, they weren’t at people.
“Just wasn’t my day. The ball was up. Basically, everything that you don’t want to do, I did today.”
“It [stunk],” Lester said. “There’s nothing really else to say. I didn’t get strike one; when I did, couldn’t put him away.
“It’s just, I guess, one of those days. Just have to forget about it, wash it down the drain, come back tomorrow, get your work done. In five days, go out and improve on it”.
Like Lester said, let’s just erase this one from the memory bank and forget it ever happened. While the loss hurt them in the AL East race as they fell to 5.5 games behind the Tampa Bay Rays, the Red Sox still maintain a ½ game lead over the Chicago White Sox in the wild card.
Big Papi had some strong words after the loss yesterday, saying “Don’t count us out”.
Since it worked with yesterday’s starter Jesse Litsch, the Blue Jays sent Shaun Marcum to Triple-A Syracuse to work out some kinks.
Josh Beckett had his start on Tuesday pushed back to Friday now.
After his latest setback, Julio Lugo is returning to Boston for another MRI.
Former Red Sox reliever Craig Hansen is happy to be in Pittsburgh.
Carl Yastrzemski is still recovering from his bypass surgery this week but expects to released soon.
For more slices of Boston Red Sox goodness, head over to the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Hartford Courant and Providence Journal websites.
And if you must see what the enemy papers are saying, head over to the Toronto Sun, Toronto Star and Globe and Mail websites.
Dice-K will perform another Houdini act and get things going in the right direction. If the Sox win the series on the road then all is well.
They need this win against the Jays badly today. They still have 7 games with them left after today’s game and we know the Jays have owned them this season.
I hope his Houdini act doesn’t actually involve loading the bases and working out of trouble. Hopefully his Houdini act is actually making the Blue Jays not appear on the bases.