Game 36: Sox 6 Jays 7

This L is brought to you by the pitching. Lester gets flustered by the umpire's strike zone in the 1st inning and gives up 3 runs. He settles down after that but takes on 2 more runs on two solo shots (Bautista in the 5th, Arrencibia in the 6th) over 5 1/3 innings. He also gave up a season high 5 walks to go with 7 hits and 5 Ks. Bard gives up another solo shot in the 8th inning to backup David Cooper.

Albers gives up the winning run in the 10th an a seeing eye single to Rajai Davis, 2 SBs (including 2nd on a pitch out), and a sacrifice fly by Cooper. Those SBs are on Varitek. Stealing on a called pitchout is inexcusable and the steal of third wasn't on a breaking ball. If that's the kind of SB prevention we're going to get, other teams are pretty much always going to have someone in scoring position against us.

The batting looked good though. Gonzalez hit two home runs and had three hits total. Ellsbury and Ortiz also had three hit nights (one of which was a HR for Papi). Pedroia is finally starting to make some contact too and Crawford extended his hitting streak to 10 games now. Sixteen hits as team and 6 runs so like I said, the hitting was not the problem tonight. Let's get 'em tomorrow.