Red Sox woes
Jul. 19th, 2007 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prowler1971Nice to see Julio Lugo starting to get some hits. Nice if someone else would.
Ortiz and Youkilis are both playing hurt right now, this is not helping.
The Sox are 20-22 since the start of June. This is not helping. In that stretch they've only one one series against an AL opponent and that was Tampa Bay. They 4 series wins against NL teams. In that stretch they are 6-6-2 in those 14 series. And it all started losing 2 of 3 to the Yankees.
For reference, in May they were 16-8 and in April 20-8. In that time they lost only 3 series.
June 13-14
July 7-8
For comparison sake, last year by this time, the Sox were 57-36 having just swept the Royals. This year they are 56-38. Going into the all start break, their record was identical to this year. The difference? The Yankees were a lot closer and eventually, the Sox didn't even make the post season.
The lineups have been juggled around quite a bit. But when Julio was leading off and NOT hitting, the Red Sox were WINNING! When Drew was hitting 5th, the Sox were WINNING! Never mind individual slumps.
Anyway, if I were making up the lineup card, it'd look more like this:
Pedroia
Youkilis
Ortiz
Ramirez
Lowell
Drew
Veritek
Crisp
Lugo
Yeah, the only real changes from the start of the season for me would be swapping Pedroia and Lugo and Drew and Lowell. And I might rotate Crisp/Lugo/Pedroia through the lead-off spot depending on who was hot. They all have had spurts and droughts. And I will always have faith in Ortiz and Ramirez. Course, this year I have faith Ortiz will hit it to the warning track.
Ortiz and Youkilis are both playing hurt right now, this is not helping.
The Sox are 20-22 since the start of June. This is not helping. In that stretch they've only one one series against an AL opponent and that was Tampa Bay. They 4 series wins against NL teams. In that stretch they are 6-6-2 in those 14 series. And it all started losing 2 of 3 to the Yankees.
For reference, in May they were 16-8 and in April 20-8. In that time they lost only 3 series.
June 13-14
July 7-8
For comparison sake, last year by this time, the Sox were 57-36 having just swept the Royals. This year they are 56-38. Going into the all start break, their record was identical to this year. The difference? The Yankees were a lot closer and eventually, the Sox didn't even make the post season.
The lineups have been juggled around quite a bit. But when Julio was leading off and NOT hitting, the Red Sox were WINNING! When Drew was hitting 5th, the Sox were WINNING! Never mind individual slumps.
Anyway, if I were making up the lineup card, it'd look more like this:
Pedroia
Youkilis
Ortiz
Ramirez
Lowell
Drew
Veritek
Crisp
Lugo
Yeah, the only real changes from the start of the season for me would be swapping Pedroia and Lugo and Drew and Lowell. And I might rotate Crisp/Lugo/Pedroia through the lead-off spot depending on who was hot. They all have had spurts and droughts. And I will always have faith in Ortiz and Ramirez. Course, this year I have faith Ortiz will hit it to the warning track.
