There is no fun in reliving the last two games. Â It’s difficult enough to watch the New York Yankees pummel the Red Sox but for them to do it two days in a row and in one of those games having to come back from a 9-1 deficit is just downright painful to go over.
You can say “it’s early in the season” and it is but, thus far, this team hasn’t shown any kind of real life when they play and there have been no indications that things are going to get better. Of course, chances are that they will get better but while you’re in the midst of a 4-10 run, it doesn’t feel like improvements are coming any time soon.
The sting was taken off Friday’s loss because of the 100th anniversary celebration the team held before the game. Â Seeing hundreds of former Red Sox players take their positions on the field with John Williams and Keith Lockhart conducting the Boston Pops put people in a nostalgic enough mood that, for many, the game was an afterthought. Â But today, today’s game was on national television and began with the Red Sox dominating the Yankees. Â Unfortunately, as Fox Sports left the game when the Sox had their 9-1 lead to go to Seattle where Chicago White Sox pitcher Phil Humber was throwing a perfect game, things began to unravel. Humber went on to complete the game and pitch the 21st perfect game in Major League Baseball history and Fox rejoined the game as the score had changed to 9-5 thanks to a Nick Swisher grand slam off of Vicente Padilla in the seventh inning. Â Things just continued to go downhill after that.
When the smoke had cleared, the final score was 15-9, with the Yankees taking the weekend series before the weekend was even over. Â There’s still another game Sunday night at 8 on ESPN with Josh Bard pitching against C.C. Sabathia. Â The trying times for the Red Sox aren’t over yet.
(Originally published on Examiner.com)