Well last night's game comes down to one thing--GOOD PITCHING! There's an old expression in baseball that good pitching will always beat good hitting. That was proven again by the game. Red Sox rookie Masterson was called up the day before the game with another of the Sox' young corps of quality pitchers of the past couple of years, Buchholz, on the DL with a torn fingernail. Masterson, who's only pitched once last month, against the Angels, in the Bigs, did very well, lowering his ERA to 1.45 as he gained his first MLB win. Limiting the Royals to just three hits, he hung around through 6 1/3 innings and then left for the bullpen.
Lopez got the next out, the only hitter he faced. Then The Other Manny, Delcarmen, allowed one hit that scored the only run charged against Masterson before getting the last out of the inning. That was it for TOM. Okajima followed in the eighth and after getting two outs and loading the bases was picked up by The Saver.
Papelbon struck out the remaining Royals batter of the eighth, then lasered his way through the three batters he faced in the 9th, striking out two of them. Game over.
Today Colon is supposed to make his Sox debut. If he has anything at all of his 2005 Cy Young stuff, he should be quite an acquisition.
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