Sox 4/11/2006 - Toronto (home opener)

ESPN Box Score

Blue Jays - 100 000 020 - 3  5 0
Red Sox -   040 000 10x - 5 10 0

36 pitches in the first inning and ends up with 108 pitches total. It is obvious that if you let Beckett off the hook early in the game that he will settle down and pitch a good game. You have to like the competitiveness of Sir Beckett. Another fiery personality to go with the Big Schill is always welcome.

It would be nice if the offense decided to catch up with the pitching but if you told me before the season that after 7 games Manny and Big Papi would have only 2 home runs and 7 RBI's and the BoSox would still be 6 and 1, I would have laughed my head off.

Not sure about Coco's status, depending on who you believe he will be out 3 weeks or 2 months. I think that Stern will play a good center field in his place and even though he is not as fast as Coco (not many are) he still brings speed on the base paths. The injury to Nixon can be more troubling though since I do not have any faith in Pena, especially after this fiasco yesterday (all I could think at the time was "Another Canseco").

Did we really trade Arroyo for a guy who seems to strike out swinging on every at bat? So far it seems like every at bat he is over powered by the pitchers fast ball. It also seems like each at bat lasts 3 pitches, he may have potential but the Big Leagues is not where he needs to develop it, send him to Pawtucket and bring up Dustin Mohr.

Yankee Update

It would be nice if the other teams in this league besides the Angels, Red Sox and A's could hold the lead against the Yankees. Letting 5 runs score in the Bottom of the 8th doesn't help anybody win games, least of all the Royals.