OFFNY
04-24-2011, 07:34 PM
We started the season at 6-1, and now we´re 8-12.
The Red Sox started the season at 2-10, and now they are 10-11.
We just got smacked around by the Yankees in a rain-abbreviated 2-game series.
The Red Sox just won their 5th consecutive game, including a 4-game sweep of the Angels, culminating in back-to-back shutouts yesterday and today.
After starting the season horribly in their first two starts, both Diasuke Matsuzaka and John Lackey threw goose eggs in their last start (8 shutout innings for Dice K yesterday, and 6 shutout innings for Lackey today). In fact, Matsuzaka has thrown 15 consecutive shutout innings in his last two starts, and Lackey has given up 1 run over 14 innings in his last two starts. We aren´t facing either one of them, but their turnarounds have mirrored what their team has done as a whole over the last week and-a-half ........... and we are facing Jon Lester, who just threw 6 shutout innings on Friday after having given up only 1 run over 6 innings in his previous start.
The teams have been polar opposites in terms of how they both started, and where they are now. Two weeks ago, if someone had asked to predict which team would desperately need to win this series, almost everyone would have said that it would be the Red Sox. It isn´t. It´s us. The Red Sox are not sitting pretty at 10-11, but they sure are not as emotionally down as the Orioles and their fans are right now.
And now, we meet for 3 games at OPACY. Will we continue to drift in opposite directions, or will the Orioles fight back and take at least 2 out of 3 on our home field ? We´ll find out soon enough.
The Red Sox started the season at 2-10, and now they are 10-11.
We just got smacked around by the Yankees in a rain-abbreviated 2-game series.
The Red Sox just won their 5th consecutive game, including a 4-game sweep of the Angels, culminating in back-to-back shutouts yesterday and today.
After starting the season horribly in their first two starts, both Diasuke Matsuzaka and John Lackey threw goose eggs in their last start (8 shutout innings for Dice K yesterday, and 6 shutout innings for Lackey today). In fact, Matsuzaka has thrown 15 consecutive shutout innings in his last two starts, and Lackey has given up 1 run over 14 innings in his last two starts. We aren´t facing either one of them, but their turnarounds have mirrored what their team has done as a whole over the last week and-a-half ........... and we are facing Jon Lester, who just threw 6 shutout innings on Friday after having given up only 1 run over 6 innings in his previous start.
The teams have been polar opposites in terms of how they both started, and where they are now. Two weeks ago, if someone had asked to predict which team would desperately need to win this series, almost everyone would have said that it would be the Red Sox. It isn´t. It´s us. The Red Sox are not sitting pretty at 10-11, but they sure are not as emotionally down as the Orioles and their fans are right now.
And now, we meet for 3 games at OPACY. Will we continue to drift in opposite directions, or will the Orioles fight back and take at least 2 out of 3 on our home field ? We´ll find out soon enough.