Who Can I Blame for This?

That was one awful way to lose the last game of the Yankees series and hopefully the last game the Red Sox will play at this incarnation of Yankee Stadium. After a game like this, it’s easy to look for someone to blame. If player X had only hustled on that play, if the manager had only pullled the starter at the right time, etc. But you know what? The Red Sox are going to lose some games from time to time. They’re even going to lose some close ones in the late innings. And they’ll win some that way too.

In the end, they took 2 out of 3 from the Yankees in NY, and put themselves up by 6 with 29 to go. That’s a pretty nice result. I hope they can keep their winning ways rolling over the next 23 games, and make the final series with NY meaningless.

(Sidenote: The whole series of events before Giambi’s HR was awfully strange. Francona puts in a lefty to face righthanded Molina, most likely because he figures putting in a righty will result in Giambi pinch-hitting. Then Girardi says ‘to hell with it’ and goes with Giambi anyway, who takes the lefty deep. I wonder, if Lester remained in the game, if Giambi would have been used. I’m guessing not, but who knows. At least the Yankees fans got to give a curtain call to the guy whose contract they wanted to void because they were so offended by his steroid use.)