Good morning! Did Jarren Duran’s three-run shot in the ninth last night feel surreal to anyone else or was that just me? I had forgotten that teams were allowed to score late-inning insurance runs.
The Red Sox scored more than three runs for the first time in nine games last night. It was just the fifth time they’ve done it in the last 19 games. Unsurprisingly, they are 4-1 in those games, which just hammers home a fact that has become painfully obvious: if this team could hit at all, it would be really,
really good.
Does this fact give you hope or despair? On one hand, they aren’t all that far off from being able to consistently win baseball games; just a little offensive improvement from a few guys in the lineup ought to do it. On the other hand, wishing that this Red Sox team could hit could be like wishing that Craig Breslow didn’t have the personality of a human sweater vest; some things just are what they are.
So with that said, what side of the hope fence are you sitting on: Do you think this Red Sox team will get back to .500 this year? Talk about that and whatever else you want and, as always, be good to one another.
