Game 10: Rays 16 Sox 5

That was a good ol' fashioned butt whooping. It was a laugher from the start and I ended up falling asleep way before the 7th inning stretch. The Rays finally woke up from their slumber. Before this game, they had scored a total of 20 runs in 9 games. In this one game they scored 16. Sheesh, just the Sox's luck.

Dice-BB was infuriating in this game. He either threw pitches way out side the strike zone or right down the middle. Really he's an umpire's dream right now: every pitch is either easily a ball, swung at and missed, or swung at and hit hard. There's no such thing as a called strike with the way he pitches. It's hard to imagine how he stays on the team at this point but I guess on the flip side it's hard to imagine him staying this bad all season. And dumping him now would be the definition of selling low.

Wakefield fared slightly better and Wheeler got rocked in his one inning of work as well. They both seemed more victims of bad luck though as compared to Matsuzaka's incompetence. Aceves was really the only pitcher who seemed consistently in control. On the hitting side it was nice to see Crawford start to turn things around getting 2 hits and scorching a couple of other balls. And Ortiz beat the shift a few times (which the Rays oddly enough also employed against Drew, Saltalamacchia, and Gonzalez). But we still can't seem to get that big hit with runners on or 2 outs. Five runs today was good but another 11 LOB wasn't.

I'm a day behind with last night's slumber so I'll have to catch up on Thursday when the Sox have a day off. I'll post about today's game tomorrow.