Did Hell Just Freeze Over?

July 21, 2007 - Saturday

Did hell just freeze over?

Beautiful win last night, Gentlemen. Beckett, Drew, Crispy....Major! (as a side note, I find myself quite enchanted with Mrs. Victoria Beckham)

Kudos to Tito for getting tossed....it had to be done, the umps blatantly robbed us of 2 precious runs and you were justified to not take that one lying down. Further, we all know that each time you get thrown out, we win. Good call. Luckily....in the long run, the two runs didn't matter....the offense certainly locked in the win.

Most interestingly....Julio Lugo hit a grandslam in the 8th?!?! OMG, did Hell just freeze over?!?! I'm not sure I would've believed it if I hadn't seen with my own eyes. For someone who hit .308 last year with the Devil Rays, he'd slumped to a pathetic .089 in June. Around the time of my last blog/call for his trade, he was hitting around .142 and had been 1 for 27 - don't hold me to those exact stats, but I'm pretty freakin' close, aren't I? Don't deny it. But, the most recent Cinderella story about Lugo since my last blog is undeniably amazing and deserves a bit of credit, even from the most obnoxious of fans, like me. Suddenly, he's 19-38, hitting .225....and, 3-4 last night alone - the most mighty of those at bats - doing the "Monster Mash" and driving in 4 rbis. Wow. Just wow. Way to go, Julio. I'd "officially" get off your back, but you know what happened the last time I declared peace with Tavares. :-)

In other Red Sox news: Thanks for the win on Monday night, guys. I was there, you were awesome. I'd thought this game might have rivaled the record for the shortest game in history - just slighly over 2 hours (it took me that long just to get there!)....but, nope - thanks to my friends at http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ - I discovered the shortest night game in history is just 1 hour, 29 minutes. Nevertheless, this was a clean, quick, decisive win with 3 home runs (Ortiz, Ramirez and yup, Pedroia) and amazing pitching from Kason Gabbard, the new leftie. The first rookie shutout since 1993! A great big high-five, Kason. I'm feelin' the love.
And, because I am feelin' the love....I'm going to cut you some slack on the 2 losses to Kansas City. Nuff said. The Evil Empire lost again last night - combined with our win, puts us back to 8 in the lead. I'm good with that. Today.

Play Ball!