The title says all you have to know about tonight's game. It's not often that a starter only gives up five hits, a single free pass and strikes out eight in eight innings and loses. I mean, that's a WHIP for the game of 0.875. But, unfortunately, the other stats include two runs allowed measured against JB's fellow Sox players only getting a single run on a total of four hits. As good as Beckett was, the opposing pitcher, Haren, was better. In addition to limiting the Bosox to just two of the aforementioned four hits, covering the seven innings he pitched, he allowed just one BB and had a game WHIP of 0.43!
Josh deserved better, but the closest he got to having his bacon pulled from the fire was the brief Sox rally in the bottom of the 8th, when they scored their only run on a sac fly by Drew with the sacks jammed.
Youk left early when he got nailed just below the right eye by a bad bounce throw from the other side of the infield and it immediately swelled up like a blue egg. If you hadn't seen how he got it, you would have taken one look and sworn he was Kimbo Slice's latest victim. Now, there are no guarantees that his continued presence for the balance of the game would have produced the tying or winning runs, but let's face it--the man's hitting over .300 and his fielding is far better than anyone from the bench, and, though Moss did a creditable job in his stead, it's very conceivable that Youk could have cleanly fielded the grounder that brought home the D-Backs' final run and thrown out that runner at the plate. Hell, we could still be playing ball in eleventeenth inning! We'll never know. Hopefully, nothing's broken and Youk's back tomorrow.
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