Not So Pleasant Walk in the Park: Peter

Well, Jenn, you usually hear about how nice & relaxed a 'walk in the park' can be, but in this case the "walk" (all ten of them) didn't turn out so well for the Sox last night. It's rare that a team receiving as many as ten free passes loses. But that's exactly what happened to the Hose in the opener of their three game set with the Giants. The Giants starter couldn't find the plate with a compass and magnifying glass for much of his five plus innings. In fact, he threw 37 pitches in the 1st inning alone and was over 50 by the end of inning 2! Sox started well, with the first two batters reaching base, a hit and a walk, shortly to come home on Yoouuuk's first hot of the night, a no doubt about it home run to the left field seats. I mean this was gone the instant it left the bat.
Unfortunately, the Sox almost immediately gave the three run lead right back as El Gigantes scored three in the 2d on a combo of singles and a throwing error by Wake. Later on the Giants picked up a fourth and then a fifth run on a HR and a sac fly. But the Sox were still in it going into the late innings. The trouble, and we see this every so often each year, is that they'd get baserunners (a plethora of them) and never quite manage the one timely hit that would have brought some (all) of them home and given the Sox a win. In fact, the Sox left 13 runners on base, eleven of them in the final three innings! Two of those last three innings the Hose left the bases loaded at the third out! In fact, even in the 9th, when Yooukk led of with his fourth triple of the season, and later scored on a single, they couldn't get past that to get just one more hit. One more outfield single and the Sox would have had the lead by at least 6-5. But it was not to be. Hopefully, today will be better--Bucky's starting. I think Lester goes tomorrow, but have to check.
Aside from the loss and the reasons for it, the worst news from the game was Dusty's having to leave the game in the 3d after fouling a ball hard off his instep. He could hardly walk on it and was limping when he headed to the showers. No news about the condition of the foot yet in the local papers.