Spoke Too Soon

After an attaque écrit against M. Clement last night, Captain Inconsistency decided to come out and throw a solid game against the best team in baseball.

Who knew?

Six hits through six innings, 5 strikeouts, 2 walks and 3 earned runs on just under 100 pitches is, for Clement, the definition of efficiency these days. Granted, 3 ER is still more than you'd like to give up, but lets take baby steps, shall we? Offensively, picked up a number of long balls (4, to be exact) from Youk, Gonzalez, Ortiz and Ramirez, and hey! would you look at that, Youk even stole my fantasy team a base. Youk's dong was opposite field, too, which made it even cooler to look at.

Starting tomorrow the Sox head to the Bronx to take on their (yawn) hated rivals, the Yankees. Beckett will toe the rubber, and hopefully be a little better with his location than he was in Toronto. I realize I said a few posts ago that it wasn't as fun beating the Yankees when they were throwing the Trenton OF at us, but I was totally wrong. Probably because it still sucks when Trenton beats us. These are big games, 4 in the beginning of June with only one half game between them. If it were in any way possible to take 3 or even sweep, I would mess my pants. No lie. Problem with these teams is that their pitching is so streaky, anything can happen. That means the offense is going to factor in for serious, and with all the injuries to both clubs it looks like the Sox may have the advantage (with Jeter going day-to-day with his wrist plunking).

Stay tuned, boys and girls. Could be an interesting, though overdone, series.