Far And Away the Worst Games of the Season
On Friday Sox pitching issued 10 BB's. 2 with the bases loaded. JC had 3 WP's and at least one with a man on 3rd. He refused to use his fastball throughout his 5, 5+, or however many innings pitched, and this was after Ozzie decided to "let the "kid" throw his own game and see what happens". Rather than throw the heat, JC thought it would be wise to throw splitters for around 90% of his pitches, 10% of which were for strikes.
What a great trade by the Sox. An $8M dollar headcase in exchange for a guy who has thrown QS's in 80% of his starts this year, and by the way he is making about $2.5M this season and it's paid by a team without an owner. It'd sure be nice to have Loiaza pitching the way he has this season for the Sox instead of the Nationals. At least he isn't afraid to throw strikes and challenge the hitters, somewhat.
Then on Sunday, a costly and uncharacteristic throwing error by Mark Buehrle led to 4 A's runs after the Sox had been leading 2-0 in the 6th inning. Need I say more?
The question for Sox fans everywhere is, which game was harder to watch? My money goes on Friday's game. No doubt.
BTW, the lone bright spot coming out of the Sox hell hole, otherwise known as the Oakland Collesiuem, is that Jon Garland won his ML leading 13th game on Saturday.
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Without a doubt Friday's game was harder. You can only yell "Throw a damn strike!" so many times.
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