Sox take Game 1
Beckett dominated. Jeff Francis did not. Our offense showed up. Colorado's did not. We win. You lose. All in a day's work. Yes, I realize that the ALCS started in the same fashion. But I also realized tonight what an inferior league the NL really is. As long as Schilling shows up tomorrow, I now think there's no way Colorado even wins a game in this series. Perhaps my prediction of Sox in 6 was a little pessimistic.
Lowell was the only starter without an RBI, and even the worthless Julio Lugo chipped in with a 3-4 performance. The Sox combined for a .414 batting average, and that's with Crisp and Hinske getting late at-bats. The Red Sox also combined for an OBP of .826 with two outs. EIGHT-TWENTY-SIX ... make sure you read that right. Meanwhile, through 4.2 innings, Rockies pitchers had already thrown 154 pitches and allowed 13 earned runs. Truly a pathetic performance.
Tomorrow we get Ubaldo Jimenez and his pretty terrible K/BB ratio. Hopefully Red Sox batters will be patient (per usual) and work a lot of walks. Like I said, if Schilling shows up with his ALCS Game 6 stuff, we should be headed to Denver with a 2-0 lead.
I got home to find my new SI bearing a brilliant photograph of Ray Ray, KG and the Truth, with a pretty Celtics green background for good measure. Boston's championship banners can be seen in the background. While SI didn't pick the Cs to win it all (Dallas, what the fuck?!), it was still pretty cool to have it really sink in that the Celtics are relevant again.
The issue also had Joe Sheehan's projection for the series, in which he correctly said that the Red Sox dominate the Rockies in hitting, pitching, and yes, even fielding. (Sorry, Joe Morgans of the world, but fielding percentage just isn't the best way to measure how good a team is defensively anymore.) I was surprised to see Sheehan bust out with EqA statistics, as if the common, simpleton SI reader could possibly comprehend that EqA is a much better hitting gauge than batting average. But alas, these are the changing times. It's refreshing to see a national magazine like SI give BP writers (aka Gods) the credit they deserve.
Lowell was the only starter without an RBI, and even the worthless Julio Lugo chipped in with a 3-4 performance. The Sox combined for a .414 batting average, and that's with Crisp and Hinske getting late at-bats. The Red Sox also combined for an OBP of .826 with two outs. EIGHT-TWENTY-SIX ... make sure you read that right. Meanwhile, through 4.2 innings, Rockies pitchers had already thrown 154 pitches and allowed 13 earned runs. Truly a pathetic performance.
Tomorrow we get Ubaldo Jimenez and his pretty terrible K/BB ratio. Hopefully Red Sox batters will be patient (per usual) and work a lot of walks. Like I said, if Schilling shows up with his ALCS Game 6 stuff, we should be headed to Denver with a 2-0 lead.
I got home to find my new SI bearing a brilliant photograph of Ray Ray, KG and the Truth, with a pretty Celtics green background for good measure. Boston's championship banners can be seen in the background. While SI didn't pick the Cs to win it all (Dallas, what the fuck?!), it was still pretty cool to have it really sink in that the Celtics are relevant again.
The issue also had Joe Sheehan's projection for the series, in which he correctly said that the Red Sox dominate the Rockies in hitting, pitching, and yes, even fielding. (Sorry, Joe Morgans of the world, but fielding percentage just isn't the best way to measure how good a team is defensively anymore.) I was surprised to see Sheehan bust out with EqA statistics, as if the common, simpleton SI reader could possibly comprehend that EqA is a much better hitting gauge than batting average. But alas, these are the changing times. It's refreshing to see a national magazine like SI give BP writers (aka Gods) the credit they deserve.
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