Will we be seeing this kind of celebrating tonight???It's possible!!!
Going into tonights game our magic number is 2 for the Division Title.
If the Sox beat the Twins and the Yankees loose to the Rays we will have clinched the Eastern Division!!!
Pitching for the Sox tonight is Mr. Joshua Patrick Beckett 20-6 ERA 3.14.
Pitching for the Twins we have Boof Bonser
( with a name like that he gets no MR. ) 7-12 ERA 5.09.
Well not much of a match up there Boof's ERA for September with three games is a wopping 11.17!!!
Joshua Patrick's ERA for September with 4 games is a wee 2.25
OK...I bet the farm on Joshua Patrick tonight!!!
Looking at the MFY at the Rays.....
Pitching for the Yankers is Philip J. Hughes ( No Yankee player gets a MR. ) 4-3 ERA 4.80.
Pitching for the Rays is Mr. Scott Edward Kazmir ( Rays players get the MR. for scrappyness) 13-9 ERA 3.54.
Hughes ERA for September with 4 games is 3.18.
Kazmir ( who we Sox fans know all too well) whos Era for September is 2.16 with 4 games.
Kazmir faced the Yankers 3 times , 2 in April ( both losses ) and once in July for a win.
While Hughs has faced the Rays only once in August for the loss.
This matchup is on the fence for me. Kazmir's win was in July when the Yankers started their surge. So he might be able to shut them down if his control is spot-on. He did not win any games against the Sox.
Hughs was called up in August and has done a good job on the mound.
So Sox fans.. lets send positive vibes to the Rays so the Kazmir can get the ball dancing and the Ray's bats get so hot that they bust into flames with ball contact!!!
Also lets send good vibes to Lugo and hope his bat starts to sing ;>)
GO SOX!!!
4 comments:
jmp, man I sure hope we see a scene like that tonight. But that Devil Ray game has me concerned. Hopefully they can jump on Hughes early, get him out of there, and get that bullpen of gascans into the game.
Beckett will roll I'm sure: wonder if they'll have him on any sort of pitch count with the playoffs around the corner?
JMP: My lips are zipped. I live in fear of any sort of jinx. After all, look what happened to the Yanks Thuesday night when the YES annoucers declared their playoff berth clinched... ::gulp::
Ted: No pitch count on Joshy tonight. I don't espect he'll be allowed to pitch a complete game unless he does it in 80 pitches, but according to Francona, there is no reduced-innings plan in effect for this evening.
Thanks Dawn: my television is on Sponge Bob or Hanna Montanna unless the game is on, so I missed all the pre game stuff.
UGH!!! I jinxed the team!!!!
Well, not really... but I did loose the farm!!!
Yankers won... we lost....total reversal of how we wanted it to be.
No problem.. we will jus tdo it tomorrow!!!
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