This is getting bizarre...

...and I don't mind saying that this kind of weirdness makes me nervous.

The luck the Red Sox have had over the last week has been nothing short of yankee-like. Very much like the NY start to the season, the Red Sox have been statistically dominant in every category except wins lately.

Tonight is an interesting example...

Oakland starter Lenny DiNardo has held the Red Sox to only two hits but has walked 6 batters so far! The killer stat is this though: the Sox have hit into 4, yes FOUR double plays in 6 innings including two by almost-impossible-to-double Coco Crisp and one by hotter-than-hot Kevin Youkilis with the bases loaded.

Boston won't openly gripe about the scheduling SNAFU that forced the Sox to play two games inside of 24 hours with a cross-country trip in between, but I WILL. The one way to get a healthy team unhealthy and injury-prone is to tire them out. Forget the fact that the 2nd of the two games went 12 innings.

Get a clue MLB and kill these ridiculous travel expectations.

POST GAME NOTES:

Red Sox cannot score despite getting a total of 8 walks. They hit into 6 double plays - the weird Ortiz/Pedroia one doesn't count as an official one, but it was. DiNardo threw almost 2/3 of his pitches for BALLS and was basically just wild enough NOT to give Boston anything good to hit.