Yeah, I still try to watch part of all the games, it’s just hard to do game-by-game reviews. So I’m doing series reviews. Great sweep of the Braves, made sweeter by the Yankee bullpen implosion of the last couple of games.
On the last game - that 6-run inning was sweet - Tito had perfect PH matchups, going for the jugular by using Lowell for A-Gon, instead of waiting for the pitcher’s spot. And Youkilis’ positional flexibility is especially great in an NL interleague game - two pinchhitters and in the end the effect was like a triple switch. Meanwhile, although Manny made 2 outs in the same inning, his homer was a sweet drive.
Jonathan Papelbon is a Papal Bull. 1 earned run all season thus far? Good gravy.
Aside: my recent time spent thinking way too much about kidneys and diabetes (my mum got diabetes as a result of her transplant) makes me think of the Islets of Langerhans whenever Langerhans comes to bat
And finally, thoughts on the bullpen: Tavarez and Seanez - pick your poison. Javier Lopez didn’t seem much better. I mean, you read a stat like the Sox now have 22 come-from-behind wins, second most in baseball (Brewers lead with 24), and it sounds good, until you realise quite some of those come-from-behind wins are wins in games where the Sox shouldn’t have been behind anyway, except that the Ezes coughed up the lead. I think let’s forget complicated analysis. Middle relief is such a crapshoot anyway. I submit the following analysis: Pitchers whose last names end with “n” (Delcarmen, Timlin, Papelbon) - great. Pitchers whose last names end with “z” (Tavarez, Seanez, Lopez) - heart attack waiting to happen.