You could pretty much see the outcome of last night's game a mile away. The non-exsistant offense, continued to be non-exsistant, we finally got a good start out of someone other than Pedro (and Schourek was awesome, 7 shut-out innings), but the the rock solid bull-pen fell apart for the first time in a while. And just to let the wound sting a little more, after Lowe allowed the two go ahead runs to score, another error allowed three more in. At that point I shut my TV off and then said to myself, "we're going to score two in the bottom of the inning, making that error huge". Guess what happened? Yeah, isn't it just a boat load of fun to be a fan of the Sox right now?
Everytime I think it can't get worse, or I think we've finally hit rock bottom and there's nowhere to go but up. Something new happens, we find another way to blow a game or just take ourselves out of it. I'm finding myself wanting September to hurry up and get here so we can get to the point where the Sox are finally playing well, or we're just so far out of it, it simply won't bother us anymore.
Other than the great start Schourek put out there, the only other real bright spot for the Sox was the debut of Morgan Burkhart. Burkhart singled in his first major league at bat off Mike Mussina (not bad comapny) en route to a 2-4 night. He actually could have had three hit night, but was robbed of a potential double by Brady Anderson. Burkhart would probably have had a couple of RBIs had anyone been able to reach base, but that's another story.
Nothing can be said to put optimisim in the minds of Sox fans right now. It's been alomst two solid months of poor play from the Sox. I'm not going to get into the fact that a move needs to be made. We all know Sox management when it comes to getting help at the tradeing deadline. Usually it's a journeyman, or a marginally good player that is brought in, anyone who has hope of seeing any real name come into Fenway, shouldn't hold their breath.
Sox play the Os again tonight with Ramon Martinez set to take the Hill. Game time: 7:05pm EST.