Well, now I've seen him and I'm not impressed. A good hitting team will kill this guy. Hope he gets a start against the Yankees next weekend.
I'm here. Matsuzaka pitched pretty well, 7 IP, 3 R, 4 K, 1 BB. Nothing extraordinarily spectacular, but still a very solid start. Hernandez was just untouchable.
^Man...Felix shuts you down...Penguins shellacked...AND Celtics lose, but in a way that's a good thing...
Matsuzaka threw his first MLB complete game tonight, holding Detroit to 1 run on 6 hits, walking none and striking out 5 to get his 5th win of the year. Good stuff.
Wow, impressive. Kind of hard to argue against him when he beats a team like Detroit. I wonder when people are going to admit he's a keeper that everyone else just flat out missed out on...
Yeah, I'm impressed. As of right now and unless things turn around the Yankees will be playing this year for the wildcard.
Not yet, the season isn't even 1/4 over. Boston historically collapses after the all star break. We'll see what happens this year.
Boston never had Dice-K before. He is on pace to go 22-9. He has given up 2 earned runs in his last two starts, total 16 innings, striking out 13. And his ERA has dropped from 5.44 to 4.16. I would say he is starting to feel more comfortable. Now he may not go 22-9, but I think 17-18 wins is easily within his target. About the amount that Bobby Valentine said he would win, pre-season, by the way.
I agree he looks good now. He is only 1 of their pitchers though. Beckett is already starting to have blister problems and Schilling, at his age and in his shape, will always be in doubt to go all year. Right now they look great but it's still a long season. At least until July when we will see where things stand then.
Beckett doesn't have a blister, he has an avulsion, which is a tearing of the skin, on his finger. http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=1001161
Only three teams in Major League history have not won the division when having a lead of seven games or more less than 50 games into the season - the last to do it was the 1969 Cubs and the NL East. Not saying there is no hope for the Yankees, but history isn't on their side.
Not saying it's over, but I heard an interesting stat today. If the Red Sox go one game over .500 the rest of the year, the Yankees would have to go 73-53 the rest of the way. I took it a step farther, and assumed the Sox would have a fairly significant, but much more reasonable decline to something like 20-16 every 36 games instead of the 25-11 pace they have set so far, meaning they would finish at 95-67. That would make the required record for the Yankees 79-47. Again, not saying it's over, but if the Yankees don't make their move soon, it might be faster than people think.
