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Well the Red Sox just wrapped up their opener at Texas Rangers and I have to say, they look GOOD!
Curt Shilling looked very healthy and was pitching in the 90-93 mph range all day. He also threw in some changeups and actually went inside on a few batters. All told he allowed two runs, only one walk and fanned out 5 in 7 innings while throwing 117 pitches. Jonathan Papelbon looked good, struck out one in an inning. On the other hand Keith Foulke looked a little off of his game and allowed a two big hits while getting out with one earned run.
David "Big Papi" Ortiz cranked a big two run homer and drove in another with an RBI double. Lowell also cranked one. Jason Varitek (my personal fave) had a good game going 2 for 4.
Defensiveley the Sox look amazing with the new blood they picked up on the offseason. Youkilis should be good at second and Alex Gonzalez made some nice plays at SS while Coco Crisp made the BIG plays in center.
Anyways...enough of my rambling. This was only one game in a 162 game season. Altho I gotta say that if this team "gels" like the '04 team was we citizens of the Red Sox Nation could be looking at another WS.
Oh yeah, Sox won 7-3....how could I leave that out!
Curt Shilling looked very healthy and was pitching in the 90-93 mph range all day. He also threw in some changeups and actually went inside on a few batters. All told he allowed two runs, only one walk and fanned out 5 in 7 innings while throwing 117 pitches. Jonathan Papelbon looked good, struck out one in an inning. On the other hand Keith Foulke looked a little off of his game and allowed a two big hits while getting out with one earned run.
David "Big Papi" Ortiz cranked a big two run homer and drove in another with an RBI double. Lowell also cranked one. Jason Varitek (my personal fave) had a good game going 2 for 4.
Defensiveley the Sox look amazing with the new blood they picked up on the offseason. Youkilis should be good at second and Alex Gonzalez made some nice plays at SS while Coco Crisp made the BIG plays in center.
Anyways...enough of my rambling. This was only one game in a 162 game season. Altho I gotta say that if this team "gels" like the '04 team was we citizens of the Red Sox Nation could be looking at another WS.
Oh yeah, Sox won 7-3....how could I leave that out!