Apparently a $42M bullpen buys you 3.2 IP, 9 R, 9H, 3BB. If I worked on Wall Street I’d tell you that is a very bad investment, especially for Jon Leicester (pronounced Lester…I was pretty confused listening to the game). Leicester gets out of the 5th, gives up the go-ahead run to Youks in the 6th, and then collapses like soft shit in the rain when he walks the bases loaded to start the inning. I guess it could be worse for the O’s. Their former closer, who is getting paid $47M by the other birds of the AL East, is having Tommy John surgery.

Schilling acted as if he was allergic to the lead today. The Sox get him one, he gives it right back. The Sox get him three more, he gives those right back. However the bats bailed him out of this one by turning a close game into a snoozefest in the 7th and 8th innings.

Tomorrow Beckett continues in his quest to go 35-0.