It hasn’t been a good week for the Red Sox. Unless of course you’re looking at the Yankees’ box score every day, then I’m sure you’re getting a chuckle. The Red Sox went into Seattle and left with three straight losses and they’ve now lost four of their last five.
The good news is, nobody else is stepping up in the division so the Red Sox still have ten game lead in the loss column. And even better, the last place Rangers roll into town for four games in a wrap around series that ends on Monday. There’s no Curt Schilling but it might not matter much because everyone of these pitching matchups looks awesome.
Julio Lugo hasn’t gotten a hit since June 14. And before today’s game, he was hitting .089 in the month of June. That’s after hitting .209 in May. It’ll be fun to see what happens if Lugo can ever catch fire because the Red Sox have been winning without him so far.
Kevin Youkilis has come back down to earth in June. His last homerun came on May 29 and Youkilis has a mediocre .736 OPS in the month of June. He still has a .415 OBP and a .330 batting average, he’s just riding that outstanding May.
Josh Beckett is one of two players in the majors with 11 games and this was even with him hitting the disabled list. C.C. Sabathia is the other one but what’s been so awesome about Beckett’s season is how he hasn’t walked anyone. He has just 20 walks in 91 innings and he’s twelth in the American League in walks per game.
Here’s to hoping the Red Sox take care of the Rangers.
