Does April Have to End?
Two games, two different results. Let’s start with Saturday.
I had an amazing revelation as I watched the offense screw Timmeh out of another win…I was confident. Down 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, I honestly thought the Sox had a good chance to come back and win the game. Maybe it was because I heard more Sox chants than MFY chants in the Bronx, maybe it was because their pitcher looked like he should be the evil villain in a B-movie from China (especially with those sunglass, it wasn’t even sunny outside), maybe it’s because the MFY players looked like they were waiting for the other shoe to drop, but I really thought up until the last out that the Sox would come back.
I really do think they could have come back if not for an umpire who wanted to make his dinner reservations and called Coco out on three pitches that were about 2, 3 and 5 inches off the outside corner. Coco had every right to go apeshit, and I’m kind of glad he did. More often than not batters will be pissed and walk off, but by making a stink I hope MLB reviews Froemming’s strike zone and reprimands him for it. Especially when Wake wasn’t getting ANY of those calls.
Two great McCarverisms from Saturday:
- “The one thing A-Rod is doing this year that he never did last year was smile” (And I thought it was get hits in clutch situations).
- “Mariano Rivera’s success is measured in broken bats” (Too bad ERA and WHIP don’t mean anything).
Today was a game of unexpected heros. For the MFY, Malphabet went deep to give the MFY as 3-2 lead. But the Sox had Freddy Kruger and Lil’ Alex Cora. Kruger gave the Terry Francona all he could have hoped for by going 5 IP and giving up only 3 runs. (We know Timmeh, you did the same thing but didn’t get any run support). Cora was the real star though. He gets the ground out to push the Sox lead to 2-0 in the 3rd. Then he bloops a HR to right to give the Sox a 4-3 lead in the 5th. (Only in Yankee Stadium can you “bloop” a home run). In the 7th he got the Sox a much needed insurance run by hitting a triple and scoring. It’s always fun to beat the MFY “ace” with our number five starter.
The Sox have taken the first five of six against the MFY. Going into May, you can’t ask for much more than the best record in baseball (16-8) and a 6.5 game lead over the last place MFY. That’s got a nice ring to it.
