A Mother’s Day to remember
May 13th, 2007 by Bill Burt
Is this the beginning of something special?
The Red Sox come-from-behind win, 6-5, over the Orioles this late afternoon really felt that way.
I’d like to know your thoughts, observations and comments about the win, which put the Red Sox, coupled with the Brewers loss to the Mets, alone with baseball’s best record at 25-11.
8 reader comments to “A Mother’s Day to remember”
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1COD said:
I think if the Orioles let the kid go for the complete game we lose 5-0. I’d say they’ll be asking questions in Baltimore…but that would actually require somebody there to care about baseball
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3Dan said:
Well, to get back to the question at hand, it did feel like it was that kind of turning point, or moment when you realize that this team can do something special. Kind of like the A-Rod-Tek-Billy Mueller game in 2004 (even though the team floundered for another couple of weeks afterwards). However, the fact that Beckett had a reappearance of his blister problems and seems realistically doubtful for at least his next start, puts a serious damper on the excitement that the stunning win engendered.
To me, its critical that Beckett
A) Never revert to last year’s model
B) Continue to avoid the DL while being the best pitcher in the rotation.I’m glad that we’ve reached a season high eight game lead, because heading into Detroit, Atlanta and the Yankees, I feel much less confident if Beckett is on the shelf. This also makes it difficult to do what I’d hoped, which is run the dagger through the Yankees before Clemens even reports for duty/his part-time gig.
I’m going to hope we can get the lead over ten games by the time Clemens returns, but I’m not sure we’ll accomplish that without Beckett.
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5Liam said:
I totally agree with Dan on the Beckett issue. He has been our stud of the rotation and basically looked unhittable throughout the beginning of this year. If he doesn’t come out yesterday he still may have not picked up the win the way that kid from baltimore was throwin, but to put this division away and continue to win every series they play the sox are going to need Beckett. I would rather they play this one safe and make him miss his next start against the braves. I mean no matter how good the braves think they are, its still the national league and last year the sox absolutely dominated the NL. i would rather they get beckett back for new york next week. If we can push the lead to 10-12 games before roger gets back it will be a mental blow to a floundering new york team.
Bill, how long before Lester takes that spot from julian?
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7Patrick said:
I was SHOCKED when Guthrie was pulled. He’d thrown fewer than 100 pitches and had made the sox look foolish the whole day. I can see pulling him if he gives up a double or something, but why pull the pitcher when the catcher drops the ball? Even with the baserunner, you’re looking at inning ending DP potential now: Ortiz had already hit into one that day, and Guthrie had been getting nothing but ground balls.
I mean, the guy basically didn’t allow a runner to reach third, and you PULL HIM? The second he came out of the game I looked at my girlfriend and said “They have a chance now”.
I understand you’ve got to protect your pitching staff, but very many people have had successful careers pitching many complete games over the years, and 10 more pitches wasn’t going to kill this kid. It was asinine to take him out of that game….. but I’ll take a mark in the win column any way it wants to come.
