Well, as the song title says, "Back on the Road Again"--just with less satisfying results, as usual. Things started off well, as the Sox quickly put a deuce up on the board in the 1st. Although they were threatening more, that was all they got--until the 9th. It was the same problem that's frequently dogged them all season--lack of a timely hit that could/would have broken the game wide open. By the end of the game, they'd had a dozen LOB, whereas KC only had 7. Simple math tells you where this could have gone very easily with just one or two more nicely timed knocks.
The other problem is Buchholz. He's got talent, but something that he had when he first came up last year is missing. He seems to get along fine for an inning or two, and then everything falls apart. Either Bucky serves up a fat one that ends up in the cheaps, or, as yesterday, he can't find the strike zone or, again, yesterday, he hits a batter. Whichever it is, he suddenly has dug himself a hole that's too difficult to climb back out of.
The positive side of things is that at least both the Rays and Stripes lost yesterday, so our relative position remained the same. Also, from the Central Division, both the Pale Hose and the Twinkies are a game and a half behind the Sox in the Wild Card.
JB's taking the ball today, so hopefully, we'll have a better result.
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