Let me get this straight. The Sox pitchers on Saturday and Sunday put up the following lines:

Buchholz (Sat): 8IP, 3H, 2R (both earned), 2 BB, 9 K
Beckett (Sun): 7IP, 4H, 2R (1ER), 1 BB, 13!!! K

and they both get the loss because the Sox could only muster one run in 23 innings. So far the Sox have now surpassed the longest winning AND losing streak from the 07 team. This is not what we want boys. Consistency is the name of the game over 162+ games.

Oh, and I’d like to thank the geniuses at MLB who thought that since a trip to Japan to start the season wasn’t tough enough, they also gave the Sox a stretch of 21 straight games to end April. Effing brilliant.