I'm not knocking Indians' fans for not showing up to games (The Sox have their own attendance woes.) but whenever I'm watching a game that takes place in Cleveland's Progressive Field, the place looks like it's in the middle of a nuclear winter.
Tuesday's game was postponed due to "adverse weather conditions", meaning the Sox' rotation was shuffled a bit during their first set of games for the season. Phil Humber will make his first start on Monday against the Baltimore Orioles and John Danks made his normal start yesterday afternoon against the Tribe.
Danks finally got some run support in yesterday's 10-6 win. Which is good because Danks worked in and out of trouble in his 5 2/3 innings of work. Danks gave up four runs on seven hits and five walks. To be fair, A.J. and the guys behind him didn't help matters with sloppy defense.
Luckily, the offense finally was able to score with guys in scoring position, 6-9 with RISP to be exact. A.J. Pierzynski's early season power serge continued with his second home run of the season in the sixth. The three run blast put the Sox up 10-4 at that point.
The Sox come off the road trip with a record of 3-2, which is about what you'd expect. (A series loss against the two time AL Champion Texas Rangers and a shortened series win against fellow lackluster AL Central team, Cleveland Indians.)
But the best part of the day was hearing that Justin Verlander blew his own game in Detroit. So unless Jim Leyland is going to pull a Gardenhire, the Sox will miss the hard throwing right-hander in the opening home series starting Friday. They'll still have to deal with the unstoppable rebel force that is the Tigers' lineup and their impressive pitching staff.
Thursday's off day will give the Sox a breather before they play (in theory) 17 consecutive games starting Friday. Look for at least one of the games this weekend to be postponed as Saturday is supposed to be a washout in the Chicago area.
Tuesday's game was postponed due to "adverse weather conditions", meaning the Sox' rotation was shuffled a bit during their first set of games for the season. Phil Humber will make his first start on Monday against the Baltimore Orioles and John Danks made his normal start yesterday afternoon against the Tribe.
Danks finally got some run support in yesterday's 10-6 win. Which is good because Danks worked in and out of trouble in his 5 2/3 innings of work. Danks gave up four runs on seven hits and five walks. To be fair, A.J. and the guys behind him didn't help matters with sloppy defense.
Luckily, the offense finally was able to score with guys in scoring position, 6-9 with RISP to be exact. A.J. Pierzynski's early season power serge continued with his second home run of the season in the sixth. The three run blast put the Sox up 10-4 at that point.
The Sox come off the road trip with a record of 3-2, which is about what you'd expect. (A series loss against the two time AL Champion Texas Rangers and a shortened series win against fellow lackluster AL Central team, Cleveland Indians.)
But the best part of the day was hearing that Justin Verlander blew his own game in Detroit. So unless Jim Leyland is going to pull a Gardenhire, the Sox will miss the hard throwing right-hander in the opening home series starting Friday. They'll still have to deal with the unstoppable rebel force that is the Tigers' lineup and their impressive pitching staff.
Thursday's off day will give the Sox a breather before they play (in theory) 17 consecutive games starting Friday. Look for at least one of the games this weekend to be postponed as Saturday is supposed to be a washout in the Chicago area.
Sox are off to a decent start, not flying out of the gate, but not a disaster like Cleveland/Dorkesota. Maybe the complete lack of expectations has done the team a positive turn.
ReplyDelete