Red Sox Blog: Game 2 observations

All is still well. Tough one yesterday but here's what I got;

Pettitte did not have good stuff to start the game. Home plate umpire was squeezing him pretty good. Sox could not capitalize during the first two innings. Jeter's play on Lowell's grounder in the hole proved to be a big time play.

Manny's hustle? Manny did get down the line pretty good on his rbi ground out in the first.

My semi-annual CoCo bashing. In the 2nd inning bunt situation and he squares and let's two strikes go by. Between him and Ellsbury, they have something like ten hits this entire month.

MacCarver's Musings. #1 "The best way to catch, call and hit a knuckle ball is to wait on it." Okay, I am assuming he is talking about the umpire "calling" the pitch but isn't this true for all pitched balls? #2 Both him and Buck could not tell the difference between Wakefield's slow curve ball and his knuckle ball. How about watching on the slow motion whether the ball is spinning or not? #3 Ball hit off the Monster and Pedroia is deking the runner going from first. MacCarver said Pedroia was faking a fly ball when obviously he was trying to get the runner to slide as if it was a ground ball. #4 My personal favorite : "The biggest hit in Atlanta sports history" was the Francisco Cabrera pinch hit game winner in the 1993 ALCS that propelled the Braves to the World Series over the Pirates. How about Hank Aaron's 715th career home run? The most startling thing about all this is that neither he or Buck ever correct these statements. Buck treats them like they were never said.

ARod takes one. I would like to think Hansen did that on purpose but I have seen him pitch enough to know otherwise.

Game 3- A ticket opportunity. Taking my oldest daughter tonight because I won a dutch auction on MLB.com for standing room only Monster "seats". If you want to got to a Sox game this may be your best bet. There were 70 packages of two available up until Friday. MLB has other Sox game packages on auction right now. These SRO tickets are pretty good especially if you have never been up on the Monster. It can get a little pricey though. Let me know how you make out.

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