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Game 1

Tim Wakefield v. Shaun Marcum

Blue Jays hit .262/.330/.423 career against Wakefield. None of the Red Sox have any meaningful atbats against Marcum, but as a team they've hit him at a .243 /.305/.405 clip over 74 AB.

Game 2

Clay Buchholz v. Jesse Litsch

Jesse Litsch is brutal. Don't let the pretty ERA last year fool you.

Game 3

Josh Beckett v. Roy Halladay

Ooh.

Bullpen:
Aardsma- 1 ER, 1 walk
Lopez- 1 ER
Delcarmen- 3 Hits, 1 ER
geezzzz

i wouldnt call litch brutal..hes arite
towers, chacin, ohka = brutal

Someone else make the next thread.

No, Litsch is pretty brutal. However, given that all our starters have been looking like Nolan Ryan thus far I'm willing to give him the opportunity to continue that streak.

Ouch, 10-2 Jays. I thought Buchholz was good, just little unlucky with Casey's botched DP ball that would've ended the inning (instead, gave the Jays 2 runs) and a few bloopers/Hill's bunt single.

Changeup was filthy as usual and his velocity was better than it was when he came up last year despite it being early in the year. His curve wasn't as nearly good as usual, until the 5th inning anyways. Overall, a pretty good outing.

Unfortunately, we continued to make Jesse Litsch the luckiest man on the face of the Earth and our 5th/6th inning relief of Snyder/Corey/Aardsma/Lopez blows. We need Mike Timlin back.

Snyder was DFA'd so we have that to look forward to.

Amazing that Youkilis can go 194 games without a botched play and Casey plays one game and **** something up.

JD Drew looks good except for that checkswing yesterday.

Where have you gone, David Ortiz?

Bleeding Green wrote:Snyder was DFA'd so we have that to look forward to.

Nice. I was kind of expecting Aardsma to go as Francona seemed to be a Snyder fan of sorts, but it's pretty obvious Snyder is the one who needed to go. At least Aardsma has the potential to be good, even if he's not good right now.

The Rondo Show wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

Nice. I was kind of expecting Aardsma to go as Francona seemed to be a Snyder fan of sorts, but it's pretty obvious Snyder is the one who needed to go. At least Aardsma has the potential to be good, even if he's not good right now.

Aardsma had 36 strikeouts in 32 innings last year. So he does have potential. He also gave up 39 hits and 24 runs, 23 of them earned. He is only 26 years old.

What the hell is Francona doing? You have to pinch hit for Lugo in that spot. They got a good left handed batter in Casey on the bench and he doesn't even use him. Pathetic coaching move.

Now iz urs turn in basement.

YAY

Julio Lugo needs to die. 0/4 with 3 errors? I didn't think I could hate him anymore than I already did, but he's proving me wrong. What a tool.

That was just a bad series in every account of the word bad. Hitting, starting pitching, bullpen, defense, nothing was there for the Sox in this series