Swept--By the Cubs!?

Well, as if losing the first two games of the series to the Cubbies--the only team going longer than the Sox 86 year famine between WS titles (now 106 years and counting)--weren't bad enough--the Hose getting a single run in those two games and consequently wasting some excellent pitching from the entire staff, tonight they were blown out from the start of the game, finally losing 16-9. How else can you explain how a team that collects 16 hits in a game and includes a few extra base hits among those could lose?  Hell, it was so putrid the Sox were in the hole three zip before the Cubs even made their first out! As good as the hurling was the first two games, it was worse than that terrible tonight! Badenhop was the only Sox hurler to get out unscathed, going an inning and two thirds scoreless.
Tonight's abortion also witnessed the end of the Sox streak of allowing three runs or less in fourteen straight home games. You can say so what to that, but it's the longest such streak in MLB history since the White Sox did it in 1917. In case your math isn't too good, that's 97 years! I'm not going to dwell on the rest of the game here. It's so bad you can pick it up in the morning paper's boxes.
The only good thing, other than the fact that Sox bats did get those sixteen hits, was another Papi stat. He had a ground rule double, which was his one thousandth extra base hit of his career.  Besides making him the only active left handed batter with such a total in all of MLB, he also becomes the 36th player in MLB history to reach that exalted plane.  Congrats to Papi! Too bad it had to come in such a miserable thrashing such as this.