Too Manny Holes in Our Offense

We were only able to take one game from the Angels over the weekend as our offense continues to struggle and with Manny no longer in our lineup, we are continually leaving too many men on base. On Friday, we lost 6-3 and about the only thing I could see good about this game was that Wake pitched well, considering he throws a knuckleball, and I sort of liked our new "special" jerseys. The "Hanging Sox" hat looked a lot like a Christmas Tree ornament, but I did like the blue jerseys.

On Saturday, the Red Sox played a national televised game. Well, I guess it was nationally televised, I guess everywhere but here in the beef jerkey triangle. Here we had to watch the Cardinals play the Astros and watch a complete blow out game while having to watch dots on a computer screen to keep up to date on the Sox game. We won 5-4 on Bay's 2 home runs and although Papelbon gave up a run in the ninth and also loaded the bases, we hung on for the win. Paps probably won't be cleared to pitch again until July after throwing 35+ pitches in the game, but hey, a win is a win.

On Easter Sunday, we sat down with all the Easter chocolate and candy and started to watch the rubber game and immediately a semi-fight broke out between the Angels and Sox. Evidently, Abreu thought Josh was throwing at him after Abreu called a late time out and the benches cleared. Of course, the umps knew he did nothing wrong and then kicked out 4 Angels including their manager. Now when this happened, I knew that Josh, being the Josh we all know, was going to get fired up and not only were the Angels going to get beat, but there were going to get demolished. Instead, Josh just never got it going and instead took the loss in another 5-4 game. Oki now scares me when he comes in, it seems he always gives up at least one run, and this time it hurt us as we came back to make it close in the ninth, but again, we just came up a little short.

Now onto Oakland and it will be fun to see Nomar again play against us. We need to start stringing together some wins and pretty soon too. With the A's and Orioles on the horizon, I can see some "W's" coming our way.