Doesn't anybody on our team wash their hands? It seems everyone on our team is out sick with the flu. First there was Tek, then Manny Delcarmen, Beckett, and then he got a sore neck, Dice-K, Lowell is on the 15 day DL, Youk and Coco had to miss a game, and because of all that, the Angels took 2 of 3 from us in Fenway.
On Tuesdays game, we came back from behind 5-1 to win 7-6. It seems like we always find a way to come from behind to win. I kind of like this type of baseball. Beckett was scratched from his start because of a sore neck and the flu. Tek was still out with the flu as well so Cash had to start at catcher. When Francona was asked if we have another backup catcher, he said Pedroia had some catching experience in Little League or something and Pedroia actually tried on Teks catchers equipment but everything was too big on him. Let's just hope it doesn't come to having Pedroia catch for us, even for an inning. Jacoby hit two home runs for the first time in his career and Okajima blew a save opportunity for us which is rare for him. Papelbon came in to close out the ninth though pushing our winning streak to 6 games.
Wednesday's game didn't turn out like we planned. First, Flu-K (Dice) was out with the flu so Lester chose to pitch on 3 days rest for the first time ever. He was effective and kept us in the game, but we lost 6-4 stopping our winning streak at 6 games. Good news is Lowell is expected back in a couple days, Tek is taking his flu medicine and should be back by this weekend and we have Tampa Bay coming up on the schedule.
Thursday's game we lost 7-5 but the big story was Masterson and how he pitched today. A late call up to fill in for ailing pitchers, he came in and pitched 6 innings of 1 run baseball on only 2 hits. He left with a 3-1 lead going into the 7th inning. Before Masterson could finish washing his hands (did he remember) and put in a cough drop our bullpen had blown up and given the Angels the lead. It took 3 pitchers to get us through the 7th - Lopez, Delcarmen (who took the loss) and even Okajima (who got his 2nd blown save) were all ineffective. Aardsma and Tavarez pitched the 8th and 9th and even they gave up a run in each of those innings. We tried to come back again in the 9th but we came up short.
Now we are off to Florida, for the warm sunny weather and hopefully we can all get rid of this flu that is taking over this team. What we really need is a shot of Tampa Bay baseball to get us back on the winning track again.
In other news, that Ortiz jersey that was buried in Yankee stadium got $175,100 at auction. All the money went to the Jimmy Fund which the winner of the shirt said was what he wanted as his father had died of cancer. He also got 2 tickets to a Sox home game and an authentic Ortiz jersey to wear to the game.
Now off the Tampa to where we can get back on some type of winning streak!
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