Yuck

That was a disaster. Not one of the pitchers exhibited anything that resembled "good." Pedroia and Drew were the only ones that showed any signs of life.

Georgia better come through for me at the College World Series, because today has been a very bad baseball day.

The Goodness Lives On

Pretty much everyone was awesome today. After a 9-0 win, how could they not be? Homeruns coming from Ellsbury, Pedroia, Drew, and Crisp + fantastic pitching from Beckett and the bullpen = another win.

Potentially Good News (But Let's Not Get Our Hopes Up): David Ortiz is making progress as he heals the torn tendon sheath in his left wrist, and the hard cast, running from elbow to hand, could come off his left arm as soon as this week. "The pain is actually gone, which is good news," said Red Sox manager Terry Francona.
I miss Ortiz but I am pretty amazed by everyone (especially Mr. Drew) playing so great in his absence. What a team we have here!

Funny Quote of the Day: "Who cares about Beckett? Let's talk about me." -- Coco Crisp (joked!)

Important Bits and Pieces

Updates That I Deem Important:

a) No significant damage to Jacoby's wrist and the boy may be back this weekend! Absolutely my favorite news of the day.

b) Crisp was given a 7-game suspension for his fighting action the other night. Jon Lester got 5 games and Sean Casey got 3. All for defending a teammate. Hmph.

c) Things are cool with Manny and Youkilis. "It was a misunderstanding," said Ramirez. "Even in the best family, you fight and stuff like that. But it's done. It's over with. We got everything straightened out."

d) We're losing 7-0 right now. That is pretty bad news, guess we can't win 'em all.

Djokovic lost to stupid Nadal. And that was the worst news of the day.

I Love a Good Fight

We had a bit of an incident at Fenway tonight! Retaliation from James Shields after Coco Crisp mistakenly tried to take out a Ray last night instead of just making his out. Shields threw at Coco, so Coco starts walking to first to take his base when he changes his mind and runs right at him! So Shields takes a swing, Coco ducks and hits Shields, and then it's like a gang fight with like 5 Rays on Coco all punching him. Not so pretty! Benches clear, fight ensues, Coco and Shields are gone. Fun over!

Good news: Manny had 5 RBIs

Horrible news: My boy Ellsbury left the game after a painful-looking wrist rollover mishap. I hear it looks negative on x-ray, I hope he will be back soon. We need him!