1.) It's nice to win a game that way, isn't it? Jonathan Van Every had the game of his life, with not one, but two spectacular catches in the field, and there was that little home run in the top of the ninth that provided the Sox with their margin of victory. Van Every, interestingly enough, was initially drafted by Cleveland, but never made it further than their Triple-A affiliate, making his major league debut with the Sox last season after he was signed as a minor-league free agent. Last night's blast was Van Every's first career home run.
2.) There's a column on weei.com called "Five Things We Learned..." and it recaps the previous night's game (I never miss it, and highly recommend it). However, in today's column, Rob Bradford seems to be implying that Ellsbury is a good leadoff man because his OBP is seventeenth in the majors... Is it just me, or does "good" seem to mean he's be better than most regular leadoff hitters, not somewhere in the lower-middle? The other part of the Ellsbury piece talks about how he's becoming affective with two strikes... at least that's something that bodes well for a leadoff hitter. Seventeenth out of thirty? Seriously?
3.) The sun [won't] come out, tomorrow (or today, or all weekend). That's right, the Red Sox are headed to Tampa for a four-game series with the floundering Rays in that godawful dome. The Rays are back to their once-familiar place a the bottom of the American League East with an 8-14 record, having just lost a series to the Minnesota Twins. Thus far, the Rays have lost to the Sox (1), Baltimore (2), New York (2), Chicago (3), Seattle (2), Oakland (2), and Minnesota (2). Only five of these losses have come at home however, where the Rays enjoyed a .704 winning percentage last year... it should be a good series.
4.) Who would have thought that, 20+ games into the season, the AL East would look like it does. Boston on top? Check. New York in third? Understandable. Baltimore in fourth? Yep. But... the Rays last? Toronto in second? Huh? Toronto, we all decided during the offseason, couldn't compete; the only good piece they had was Roy Halladay, and he can only take the ball every fifth day. The Rays hadn't lost anyone terribly important, and had even added a true cleanup man in Pat Burrell... Well, that's the beauty of baseball: the games aren't played on paper, becasue if they were, everyone would concede to the Yankees, every year.
5.) This:
Allegedly, A*Roid did take steroids while in the Bronx, and even as early as high school... Tsk, Tsk, Alex, can't you ever stay out of the papers??
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