That was not exactly what I consider to be a productive road trip, unless the production was “Red Sox 2006: The Remake.” The good news is that the Sox only lost four straight to the MFY this time, although this may have been even more painful. AAAA teams could have at least put up a single run in 31 innings in the new MFY Stadium. Even Tek should have been able to pop one up to the second baseman for a home run. But not the 2009 Red Sox. They go 15 scoreless innings in the Friday game, then get shut out in a simple nine innings game on Saturday and don’t put up a run until the 8th on Sunday. Since I’m a visual person and a big fan of numbers, this may be a better way to describe it:

000 000 000 000 000
000 000 000
000 000 0

or:

000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 0

or:

(0 * 331)3 (I know, it doesn’t have the same effect)

Really the only people you can’t blame are the starting pitchers who are still on the 25-man roster. (The Sox made enough roster moves during the series that you’d think Theo confused his fantasy team with the real team.) So, basically that’s Lester, Beckett and Buchholz. Lester and Beckett were both fantastic. Buchholz was good, and considering his last outing at Baltimore, certainly turned in a performance better than expected. The bullpen was either fantastic or awful (6.2 IP, 2 ER on Friday vs 1 IP, 4 ER on Sunday), but again, the real bane of the team were the bats.

One week ago the Sox were 0.5 game out of first place, and now they’re 6.5 games back. Three years ago, the Sox were 1.5 games back heading into the Boston Massacre and ended up 6.5 games out. I was hoping for some deja vu from the beginning of the season, not 2006.