Game 54: ChiSox 7 BoSox 3

Boy, Lester looked terrible in this game. Couldn't find the strike zone all day and got beat around hard. Eight hits, 4 walks, and 2 HBPs in 5 and 2/3 innings. I blame some of that on Francona though. Lester was obviously exhausted in the 6th inning and couldn't find the strike zone to save his life. But instead of pulling him and bringing in a reliever to get us out of the jam, he left Lester in to get tagged for four more runs. Sheesh. I guess he wanted to give Lester a chance to earn the win but instead Lester ended up earning the loss.

Batters weren't looking bad against Peavy but once the White Sox took the 4 run lead they lost all their steam. A-Gon hit a beautiful solo shot to right in the first. Pedroia had a great battle of an at bat against Peavy in the 3rd that brought in two runs to knot the game at 3. But then Lester imploded and we couldn't put anything together to make it exciting.

I was watching this game live since I have today off. Most games I've watched after the fact so on the one hand it was annoying to have to sit through all of the commercial breaks and the pitching changes. On the other hand, it was definitely more exciting. It's hard for me to watch the games after the fact without MLB.tv telling me what will happen next. So live definitely upped the anticipation. I was also talking to Dad for the last three innings or so. He was watching the game on Gameday and I was surprised to find that Gameday was a pitch ahead of MLB.tv. Fun to commiserate with Dad during the loss though and share some complaints/insights.