May 15 – Sox lose 7-2 vs. Tiggers
My plan for a 151-11 season is ruined. Before this game the Sox were unbeaten when Cora started at second. Then they have to go and screw it up. And who says statistics are meaningless?

May 17, game 1 – Sox win 2-1 vs. Tiggers
The Tiggers are too scared of Freddy Kruger when they have to look at him in daylight and allow him to go 7 IP giving up a single run. Coco’s brilliant base-running (sliding under the tag and then taking 3rd base on the overshift on the same play) get the Sox the first of their two runs. I’ll use a lot of adjectives for describing Coco this season, but I doubt I’ll use brilliant again.

May 17, game 2 – Sox win 4-2 vs Tiggers
Curt tries to steal Lowell’s nickname of “Doubles” by giving up seven of them in six innings. Miraculously, he only allows two runs through all of that. It would have been more if not for Eric Hinske’s full-sprint and jump, balls to the floor, parallel to the ground, head-snap catch in the right field corner. With the game tied in the 7th Hinske then crushes a ball into the wind that ends up in the Sox bullpen. The smile on his face as he rounded the bases was easily worth the price of admission (it was really worth the price of watching the game on TV). Of course the ‘pen makes it stick.