Here’s how not to win a ballgame: get 18 runners on base (10 hits, 8 BB), ground into one double play, get one guy picked off and leave 13 runners. Thirteen. For you non-math types that means only three guys crossed the plate. Combine that with a start from rub-a-dub Tavarez and you get a big ol L.

Tavarez is starting to remind me of mediocre football teams who will look great one day when they play up to their competition, and play like shit the next week when they play the Houston Texans. Against Santana, he gives up two measly runs. Against a guy who doesn’t have a major league win, he gives up five (and that easily should have been eight or nine). When is Lester coming back?