It is difficult to find the correct spelling of how a sound start. It ggggaaahhh? O ccccccchhhhh? Perhaps aaaaaack? Instead of an appropriate response, perhaps it is best to go with something everyone can write and in which all must agree: BOSTON.
Now the Boston Red Sox in the catastrophic fall of the League East American leaders at all time artists gag still far from complete. After losing their third game in four days against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday, said Red Sox lead the AL wild card in two games with 10 left. This is a significant margin for a team that finishes with seven for 10 against the Baltimore Orioles sad. This makes it no less formidable.
Now the Boston Red Sox in the catastrophic fall of the League East American leaders at all time artists gag still far from complete. After losing their third game in four days against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday, said Red Sox lead the AL wild card in two games with 10 left. This is a significant margin for a team that finishes with seven for 10 against the Baltimore Orioles sad. This makes it no less formidable.
These are not the Red Sox, which is April 16 and August 9 won the 70 103 games. It is a remarkable achievement, 0.680 winning percentage, the size of the domain name. The last team to 103-game stretch was the New York Yankees 2009. They won the World Series. The team was before the 2006 Detroit Tigers. They made the World Series. Same thing with the 2004 Cardinals. Since 1994, a strike, a dozen teams have gone 70-33 jag. Nothing has succeeded in the playoffs.
What is different is not a matter of heart or the will or desire or wish, or one of the things that play so well on the radio talking about Boston. The Red Sox are choking because they are dominated, as they were dominated when they started the season 10/02 and sent the city into panic, and they play, because sometimes even the best of team. There is no single, dramatic failures as much as a collection of small failures snowballed into an Indiana Jones sized rocks of destruction.
Of course, some are more guilty than others. When an opposing team away from its worst weekends of the year, heads directly to a doubleheader with the first half started with a rookie with a 7.58 ERA and the other half in the hands of a veteran with a 6.19 ERA, it is no accident. It's bad management. And for the first time in his career ...
1. Theo Epstein is facing criticism - all justified - a franchise out of his hands in the middle of a playoff.
It is very simple: No team with the ability to spend $ 170 million on their payroll should start Kyle Weiland (notes) in September. Period. Weiland is the first rookie to start Monday's game against Baltimore. He allowed 34 runners in 19 rounds, while the elimination of six years. It can be good one day. You can see the criticism of him now and throw a gem. As good teams can lose, jugs of evil can not win.
Weiland is nothing but a systematic failure at this point was a team made none. Epstein led the Red Sox with efficiency and intelligence in his nine seasons as general manager. What makes it more difficult for irreducible and pink hats alike.
It 'easy to be wise after the event, when the Epstein Kevin Millwood (notes), who left the Red Sox Triple-affiliate to sign with the Colorado Rockies Day in Boston ended a stretch phenomenal, no contender has thrown a lot. Millwood wanted to pitch in the major leagues, Epstein never booked him a chance.
Millwood is the thing, according to scouts who have seen, nothing special, and between him and Erik Bedard (notes) of trade appears to strengthen the Boston rotation, Millwood reprimand seemed understandable. It seems short-sighted, especially with eminent Optionable Randy Williams (notes) on the list at the time.
Without the safety valve, the Red Sox will turn into Weiland and the man who takes the cake worst mistake of his career Epstein unique ...
2nd John Lackey (notes) and his menacing ruin. If the Red Sox do not blow this lead, they might as well put panels whose face Lackey around the city with the slogan: "The Red Sox 2012: Only three years of this"
Hey, we play a game.
G IP H BB K HR ERA HBP
Pitcher 26 149 2 / 3 187 51 101 20 19 6.19
Pitcher B 27 145 2 / 3 182 30 75 23 12 5.00
A pitcher, as you know, John Lackey this season. Pitcher B while the more gruesome the fans of the Yankees, Carl Pavano (notes) from 2005-08.
Boston can look in two ways. One is that, at least Lackey has time to save his five-year, $ 82.5 million deal after a poor year before and a poor second. Another is that his numbers this year are terrible neighbors Pavano LOL and SMH.
If only Lackey was the worst contract on the Red Sox. No, that honor goes to ...
3. Carl Crawford (notes), a very good player who had to pay so much. Boston made an initial bet of up to seven years and $ 142 million last offseason to ensure he never left, Fielder hit 20 home runs, the biggest asset (his speed) was certain to decrease with age and the wear of years of artificial turf, a rate hike to its best season was ranked 108 and 154 batters who qualified under joke.
Crawford syvende bats for the Red Sox these days. He knocks and 0255 based on a percentage not once this season cracking .300. He stole a base in September and 18 for the season, his previous career low was 25 when he lost nearly a third of 2008 with injuries.
There may be an explanation. Boston center fielder, Jacoby Ellsbury (notes), has struggled to stay healthy in 2010 and has struggled even worse, when he played. He healed, and has the right to MVP candidate this season. Lingering injuries to do, and if this is the relic of the crippling rate, which sent him to the disabled list in June, that makes sense. Otherwise, it will be a long six years in Boston, who almost certainly will not see in its entirety.
Crawford is lucky, the offense was so good. Red Sox, the first list of baseball runs, on a percentage basis and the proportion of ineffective this season, and ...
4. Dustin Pedroia (notes) is the balance of electrons. So for all the valence leave in September - is surprising .215/.235/.415 in the month to stand at .308/.397/.470 - not exactly help.
Sufficient to cover the recent problems of ice Pedroia. From Ellsbury (.358/.413/.642), Adrian Gonzalez (Notes) (.275/.435/.542), Marco Scutari (Notes) (.385/.424/.558), who rose to power is left. Pitching is a problem, and ...
5. Jon Lester (notes) to create Stinkers back to back in his last two starts against lightning is a real sin, knowing what's behind the Red Sox rotation.
Lester is to set up a typical season Lester: about 200 innings, an era just over 3.00, a good number of strikeouts, walks too. If not an ace, it is at the top of the next category. And these are the pitchers who have chairs to stop blunders.
On September 11, Lester threw 111 pitches in four innings and left to rot Boston Bullpen. Six days later, his pitch efficiency is improved, but the results were not: four runs in seven innings in one of its worst start in years, and certainly the least punctual. The Red Sox had a chance to force, at worst, a series of Split and exit the series, where they started: a comfortable four games ahead. Instead they lost 4-3 Lester played to 8-5 Sunday, and now they have dynamite duo Weiland-Lackey, followed by ...
6. Erik Bédard try to go back injury. Stop us if you have heard before.
Bedard last slope on 3 September. Lat a knee injury on the sidelines and painful. Bedard was strong enough as the Red Sox in five starts, averaging just over five innings with an ERA of 3.66. It was striking a batter an appointment. It was better than Rich Harden (note), the Red Sox originally negotiated within, and has a 5.08 ERA since July 31 at the Port of Oakland pitchers. Erik Bedard was: well when healthy.
Bedard then got sick and yang, as always, broke the yin. As uncomfortable as Weiland and sending Lackey to the mound Monday, the spread of Bedard on Tuesday is the type of bet that someone is incredibly drunk. Maybe it's a perfect theme for ...
7. Franco, Terry: Managing Director as the person drunk. In fact, all those for whom failure is spreading - and does so "contagious" - Franco did not earn nearly as much as he is coming, and this should be continued.
The old adage is true: baseball managers get too much credit when they win and too much blame when they lose. Francona manages a group of adult men. There is only so much he can do to motivate them. Finally, their performances dictate the success of the team. Football coaches break down film to exploit weaknesses. Basketball coaches preparing to play the opponent apart. In baseball, there are only so many strategies a manager can do.
The work of Franco pitching staff, imperfect, and that's enough to make any manager, seems to have lost the team. That did not happen. In fact, if the Red Sox hang on to make winning bets, one for consuming the story of how Terry will be Franco's team had one of his worst moments, as he did ...
8. Kevin Youkilis (Notes) and Clay Buchholz (Notes) and JD Drew (notes) and Daisuke Matsuzaki (Notes) and Bobby Jenks (notes), the injured foot. The last four have not played in recent months. Youkilis tried to gut their way to an accident in September 0167 only to hit .222 and slug more than 36 at-bats.
Yes, injuries happen to all teams. They have no excuse. Updating them on the other hand, evasion is equal and opposite bit. If the Red Sox Yankees remained healthy "Tiger", the Rangers and the rays' rotation, they look like:
No. 1: Jon Lester
No. 2: Josh Beckett (notes)
# 3: Clay Buchholz
4: Erik Bedard
5: Daisuke Matsuzaka / John Lackey
Instead, they started with Tim Wakefield (record) 22 times, by Andrew Miller (Notes), and a dozen are in the process of ...
9. Kyle Weiland debut fifth. Weiland, in many ways, unwittingly became the face of the fall in Boston - and to a lesser extent, the operating system of the craters of Boston. Gonzalez trade for winter left, performance thin, and the poor in a number of best pitching prospects in Boston - most of whom have signed more money, a Red Sox rewards used with great success in the past - Weiland meant to call instead of a prospectus with the seasoning and the right pedigree.
When he made his first start Red Sox game will be held July 10 to bring in the East. On his return in September, Boston had wasted Increased advantage and depends on 24-year-old man with an inning of Major League dozen Prevent the game one team All Collapse epic time.
Monday afternoon, it can be a hero just as quickly it turned into a goat. Weiland fastball is a tick above average speed, the Curveball to be a good location and he throws a cutter and poor shifting. The Orioles should be able to hit him, just as they should lackeys.
Yet what seems to make sense of the end, perhaps not out of the way of a lesson ...
10. Theo Epstein learned from past experiences and once again this season. Epstein once told me, his goal is to make soccer October 7-year intervals, and I hope that the team the chance to win one or two. His eight full years, Epstein Red Sox have six playoff appearances.
In the seventh will have 10 games, in contrast to 10, where they went 2-8. September 2, the Red Sox held a 9 ½ game lead over Tampa Bay. Just over two weeks later, two.
It would take a more significant in the history of sport. Not as bad as the Yankees dropped four straight Red Sox in 2004 ALCS, but certainly the right side of the 2007 Mets to give up seven game lead over Philadelphia in the final 16 games and the '64 Phillies wasted a 6 ½-game lead with 13 to left, or the '95 Angels blowing 9 ½-game lead on August 20.
Rays head to New York four games against the Yankees (which hooks to five 11 times this year), then return to Tropicana Field for three, with three in Toronto and the Yankees. Rays Playoff Odds Coolstandings.com still only 8.6 per cent chance of making the playoffs.
It is not a share of mathematical permutation of damage to the reactor is made not only in Boston, but it leads to the psyche. How true that is - and if, in the end, will more than could have been - is revealed next week and a half.
The chicken bone is half of the throat of the Red Sox. Cough good match and will not be nothing more than spitting into oblivion, only one point on his way to a playoff series that emphasizes the top criminal defense line launch, and stellar booming, they have in abundance.
A few more losses and it may be too late for the Heimlich or CPR. It is only the 2011 Boston Red Sox, legends whose season is only three words to describe: ggggaaahhh, ccccccchhhhh, aaaaaack.
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