When Lester spoke to the media after his start in Oakland he told everybody that his pitches were good, but he was just unlucky. Considering that BABIP (batting average on balls in play) was not his friend that day, I believed him. I mean, bloop hits are just unlucky, right? Well, here’s a news flash for him, when you constantly fall behind batters, you’re going to get hit…hard. Do not look up to Dice-K. Just because he’s missing from the rotation doesn’t mean that you can replicate his WHIP of 3 but still give up only 1 run BS. Instead you end up putting your team in an early five run hole. Lucky for Lester, BABIP wasn’t Cleveland’s friend tonight either. The Sox squeaked out three runs in the 8th to tie the game by using 47-hop grounders as base hits.

Going into extra innings, I know all Sox fans have been waiting for a certain clutch Red Sox’s coming out party for this season. Wouldn’t it be appropriate for his first home run of the season to go to deep center in the top of the 10th with 2-down and nobody on? Yeah, I wish it was Papi too, but who can complain about Jonathan VAAAAn Every making his first major league home run to be a memorable one? Plus, he made some catches in right field that probably made JD limp just from watching them, and did it all against the team that kept him in AAA for seven years. Now that’s CLUTCH. (Credit to Castiglione for calling it: “This would be a good time for Van Every’s first major league home run…”.) Right now the Sox are both lucky and good. After all, when Javier Lopez throws a scoreless inning, you’ve got to be lucky.