No Offense Trumps Lester: Peter

Well, back to the worst of games. Today, though he didn't pitch his best, Jon Lester was more than good enough to get a win had he decent offensive support. Unfortunately, once again, it was case of too little, too late--and middle--and early as well. Although the Hose did take a one zip lead in the 2d, it lasted until the 4th and the Sox never saw the lead again. The chances were there as they ended up with eight men LOB, twice what the Rangers had. However, when a timely hit was needed to bring some of these guys home, nothing, nada, no how. In fact, the Sox totalled only five hits, and had three of those not been for extra bases, they might not have scored at all.

Beltre added his 15th error of the campaign, which directly contributed to one of the R's runs. Additionally, although the Sox cut down an opposing runner for the third time in the last two games, the Rangers still managed to steal a pair.

Rehab wise, the announcement was made that Bucky will start out here on the Left Coast against the A's this Wednesday, a relatively midweek daytime start. I remember, Jenn, not too many years ago when baseball was predominantly a daytime game, and you could sneak out of the office to get some sun, have cold one and watch the Hose try to hose down an opponent for a big 'W'. Largely, that's a thing of the past. Thank you television. Speaking of which, Jenn, could you write a script for a few of these games that has a healthy Sox team getting bunches of hits to back up real sharp pitching, thereby getting the team from the Fens lots of wins? Well, once everybody's back in harness and up to speed, maybe we won't need the script. Maybe, hopefully, it will come naturally.