Caught some of this game as I was prepping for work. Giving up two homers to Giambi and Williams - ugh. Schould Schilling schtill have been out there in the 6th to begin with? Just as I was thinking 100+ pitches sounded like a lot for a guy coming off an injury and making his first regular season start in a while, Giambi bashed the ball.
Meanwhile, the Sox are hitting exactly like they do on my MVP Baseball 2005 team - in other words, Ortiz, Trot, and Tek all get hits while Manny and Renteria don’t. (Yeah, for some reason I can only hit as a lefty in the video game - I don’t read pitches well when my player bats righty. So all my homers have come from Ortiz and Trot, and Tek and Mueller batting lefty. Is there such a thing as having a batting preference in a video game? Strangely realistic.) Sigh. But I remember the doldrums of last summer, and it’s early doors yet… still, they had Jaret Wright by the throat and failed to do much with it.
Point of optimism: good to see Blaine Neal work his way out of the man on 2nd, no one out situation. A-Rod’s so easy to K…