Well - I was expecting a more thorough offensive beat-down than what happened last night at Camden Yards, but regardless*, a win is a win and to hear Curt Schilling dominate like he did last night is encouraging - not to mention the fact that Big Papi and Manny came through when we needed them most last night.
*No, "irregardless" is NOT a word despite the fact that the spell checker passed it and the fact that half of Americans use it regularly - I hate words like that whose mere over MISuse lands them in not only the vernacular but also some half-witted dictionaries (e.g. nuclear is NOT pronounced like NOOK - yoo - lur). Sorry for the side note but at least my mom would be proud!! Hi Mom!!
Anyway - back to the good stuff...
The Orioles proved once again that they are essentially Miguel Tejada and 8 other guys. 8 not so good other guys. Hopefully that bullpen will get back to normal for them after last night's debacle. Sweet debacle it was... lol.
Alex Cora kept up his rep as a "Daniel Cabrera killer" by going 2 for 3 against him with a sacrifice bunt as his only "blemish" before the relievers started filing through. Now if only we could find a way to work Cora in as like a Gustavo Chacin or Johan Santana killer... hmmm...
Hideki Okajima continues to be filthy good and with a 5 run lead in the 9th, the Sox could afford to send out Brendan Donnelly to close it out instead of using up Papelbon like we did prior to the first game of the yankee series. THAT won't happen again.
Speaking of the Bronx Zoo - our series there is rapidly approaching and the prospect of Dice-K and Wakefield pitching the first two games is scintillating... if only we could find a fill-in for Julian Tavarez. We'll lose HUGE if he pitches on Sunday...
And so he prayers start... for starting prayers, er, pitchers.
Gotta love it!!
#3 on the way and other musings
15 years ago
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