A lotta people have pointed out that the Sox have made their bones playing mostly creampuffs on their schedule so far this year. While I have to agree, it's still their job to go out and beat those teams. As bad as they are, they get paid too. It's up to the Sox to take care of business against them, and for the most part they have.
So even though the Royals haven't gotten off to the best of starts this year, they are the champs and that carries something with it. The Sox rolling in with a share of first place seemed to wake up the Royals a little bit (not that I've watched many of their games, but their record speaks for their level of play to this point). Is it discouraging that we dropped 2 out of 3 to the first quality team we've faced in a while (not sure where to count the Astros)? Not yet. Still a long way to go. Obviously I would've preferred taking 2 out of 3, but if a few close plays go our way in the day game yesterday we would've done just that. So I'll hold off on sounding the alarms. For now.
Loved that David Price got us within a few outs of playing a double header and not using the bullpen (I suppose we can thank Steven Wright for that as well). How rare is that? Loved JBJ doing his thing and Mookie making a potentially game-saving play in RF late in the game, not to mention his homer earlier in the game. Love the resiliency of bouncing back after losing the first game.
Lot to be pleased about after last night's game. And when there's a lot to be pleased about the last person I generally want to see is Clay Buchholz. Which is what we're faced with tomorrow. At least it'll be the weekend.
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