Brilliant, economical start by Schilling: 8 innings pitched, 1 run, Ichiro looking silly. Gotta say, you don’t often see Ichiro swing and miss like that, but there it was, Curtis Montague Schilling and Jonathan “The R Stands For RogerClemensRedux” Papelbon striking him out swinging. (Okay, that was typical Boston hyperbole, but I can’t remember what the R really stands for.)
And yes, it is a good sign for our pitching that the Sox are winning close 2-1 games, as the Globe says. Specifically, it’s a sign that Paps has ice in his veins. But it’s also, unfortunately, a sign that the Sox tendency to leave men on base remains. Man, Moyer was on the ropes so often, and in yet the end it took A-Gon’s ability to hit the slow fastball to make any sort of impact.
On the completely random side: seeing Varitek come to bat against the Mariners makes me think, “Yo no soy marinero. Yo no soy marinero, soy capitan.”