Garland Shoots Himself In The Foot

Jon Garland had a flashback to past seasons in the 6th inning of Sunday's ballgame when he allowed the leathal and all to familiar big inning to ruin an otherwise solid outing. Going into the innng he held a 3-1 lead over the heavy hitting Rangers but it would not last long. After giving up a couple of hits to start off the inning he allowed a run to score on a fielders choice to trim the Sox lead to 3-2. Then, after getting the second out, he allowed another hit to Soriano setting the stage for Mench to hit a 3 run bomb to put Texas ahead 5-3. After that Garland was still unable to stop the bleeding, giving up 2 more runs before the inning was over. So he held a 2 run lead going into the 6th and came out of it down by 4. It was only one inning of one game, but I'm think that Garland's bubble might have burst this afternoon. BTW, Shingo came on to give up 4 runs in the 8th, 3 coming on a HR he allowed.
The one bit of good news coming out Sunday is that The Big Hurt will be joining the Sox on Monday and that he should be in the lineup tomorow vs. the Angels. OK, maybe there is one more piece of good news...The Twins were shut out by Roy Halladay today, remaining 3.5 games behind the Sox. Today was the 3rd straight loss for the Sox, matching their longest losing streak of the season for the 2nd time (3 times in all), and it was the 8th straight victory for the Rangers.