Game 75: Sox 1 Pit Rats 3

Man oh man. Where has the offense gone? One run on 9 hits and 4 walks? Sox had golden opprtunities in the 7th and the 8th managing to score no runs with guys on 1st and 2nd with 1 out in the 7th and 2nd and 3rd with 1 out in the 8th. Yeesh. Both Gonzalez and Ortiz were in the middle of those inept innings.

Lester pitched okay. Eight hits over 6 innings was too many for the Pirates and walking the pitcher (the pitcher!) of all people to load the bases with no outs in the 2-run third was unbearable. Really, he seemed to be lucky to get out with what he did. Albers, Hottovy, and Wheeler pitched cleanly to finish the game but only one run against the Pirates is not going to win games.

Let's get this losing streak done with and start kicking butt again. We want wins!