Yes, I couldn’t bear to watch, and I was really afraid of jinxing the team again, but I couldn’t bear not to watch. Plus, heck, I didn’t pay for MLB.tv so as not to watch the Sox games. So, questions - how hard is it to watch Foulke in the 9th inning these days? Even when everything’s going well, as it did today (the only single was a weak hit), I still had to switch between the Sox game and the glorious schadenfreude of watching the Yankees lose badly to the Devil Rays… the wait between batters is too nervewracking sometimes. Foulke is locating his pitches better, it seems, so hopefully April was just a little bit of a slump.
Wakefield has been excellent this season. The man’s ageless. And Youkilis getting the game-winning single is great. Francona’s quote (“We try to find at-bats for [Youkilis], but he just cares about winning”) is encouraging for a Youks fan… What a throw by Renteria to get Guillen. What a throw.