Texas Four Step

The Sox managed to go 10-2 during a stretch where I might have been happy with 8-4 or 7-5 since I posted last. Mike Lowell is still on the DL, David Ortiz is still batting like shit (but batted .281 in the last 7 games) and Josh Beckett will miss yet another start tonight.

After sweeping AL West cellar dweller Texas Rangers, the Sox will meet the antithesis of the Rangers, the Los Angeles Angels. The young David Pauley will get the start tonight in the stead of the ailing Beckett against the struggling Jered Weaver. Pauley has been called up from Triple-A Pawtucket and filled in not so nicely last year on a couple occasions when Shilling when down. He gave up 14 runs on 31 hits in only 16 innings, however he has started off nicely for the PawSox with a 1.17 ERA.

What did I miss? Well, I didn't miss much but I didn't post on here while the Sox quietly ripped off nine wins out of their last ten. They went 4-and-2 against the Yankees, swept the struggling Indians on a couple of comeback victories and swept the Rangers. Not bad for a team who's ace was not doing so hot and who's slugger was (is) slumping.