Red Sox / Orioles - Game 21

Tonight's game looks like a pitchers duel in the making with Lopez and his 1.91 ERA going for Baltimore and Clement with his 2.13 ERA going for the Sox. That means it will probably be a slugfest.

Slugfest it was.

19 runs, 3 HR and Lopez saw his ERA double from 1.91 to 3.98 while Clement's went from 2.13 to 3.90. Unfortunately the Sox came up on the wrong side of an 11 to 8 score.

The Sox had leads of 5-1 and 8-3 but couldn't hold off the birds. I'm kinda disgusted with the pitching and I blame it on Blaine Neal who didn't pitch last night but sets a bad example for the other pitchers by allowing so many runs to score.

Anyway - let's turn our gaze to the Bronx where Alex Rodriguez hit three HR and drove in 10 runs. This came from nowhere - which is my point. Earlier when the eyes of baseball were upon him in the series against the Red Sox - A-Rod made the key error late in the game that cost his team a win. So far he's won one game with his bat and lost one game with his glove. Driving in 10 runs for a last place team is not impressive to me. Let's see how he does in a game with playoff implications.

As a Sox fan I can tell you that Jeter and Matsui scare me far more coming to bat in big situations than A-Rod does.

Put it this way - he's not Tony, he's Big Pussy.