It’s always a nice thing to kick off your morning with a musical montage from the fine musical montage makers at NESN. This one is from before and after yesterday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles.
After trailing yesterday 4-0, the Boston Red Sox did what we normally expect them to do and come back to win. One of the characteristics of this team is that they never give up no matter what the deficit. The comeback win was huge in the sense that the New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays last night, narrowing the Red Sox deficit to 3 in the AL East. The Minnesota Twins lost last night pushing the lead for the Red Sox in the wild card to 5 games.
It was a good homestand for the Red Sox as they went 5-1. Contributions came from everyone on the team but the one person who is leading the team right now is Dustin Pedroia. With the injuries to J.D. Drew and Mike Lowell to go along with Kevin Youkilis’ bad back, Pedroia has stepped up his game to even higher level than he plays at all season. Seriously, how many second baseman that are 5 foot nothing do you see batting cleanup.
Pedroia is in the midst of a 8-game hitting streak right now where he’s batting .618. Plus he’s been solid defensively behind the Red Sox pitching staff. You can definitely not count him out of the MVP talk.
Speaking of Pedroia, he said Jerry Remy “stunk” when he played.
Mark Kotsay did a great job playing first base yesterday.
Baltimore reliever Jim Johnson will undergo an MRI on his sore shoulder.
The Red Sox are getting healthy at the right time.
Daisuke Matsuzaka wasn’t at his best yesterday but was happy the team won.
“My pitching was one thing but right now we need to win games, so to pull it off the way we did today, after falling behind, I can’t ask for more than that,” said Matsuzaka, who failed to surpass Hideo Nomo for the most wins in a single season by a Japanese-born pitcher. “I felt my condition was good, so I hoped for a better result but I guess baseball isn’t that easy. Today, we got the win and I just want to thank the guys on the field.”
It was a good year for the Red Sox farm system.
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 you can check out the Baltimore Sun and Washington Post websites.
