The Red Sox lost to the Phillies 4-3 Wednesday night and had a little 9th inning rally. The Red Sox got on board first making it 1-0, but the Phillies would get 3 runs between the 2nd and 4th inning off of 3 solo home runs. Lackey's (3-5) outing was 6 innings, 6 hits, 3 runs, 3 walks, and 5 strikeouts. Basically his biggest problem was leaving the ball over the plate because when he did that, he gave up home runs. He picked up the loss as the Sox could not tie the game or win it. Our offense was OK, getting 7 hits and 3 runs. Ellsbury went 2-5 with an RBI, and was the only Sox player to get 2 hits. Also, if you wanted to know, Lackey went 0-1 at the plate. As I mentioned earlier, the Sox had a small 9th inning rally for former closer, Jonathan Papelbon, in which they picked up 2 hits and 1 run to make it 4-3 but Papelbon got Daniel Nava to ground out to first base on the first pitch, in which he should have been more patient.
You know with this recent loss, it would feel so great to have one of those big blowout wins. I mean, c'mon, when's the last time we had one of those? Anyways, pitcher Franklin Morales will finally be making his season debut tonight, getting the nod to start tonight's game. This situation with Buchholz not pitching kind of works out perfect right now as Morales is just coming off the DL and will be fresh to start a couple games, if he has to. Also, the Red Sox remain in first place in the standings at a 32-22 record, 1 game ahead of the Yankees as they have lost 4 straight. Well, let's hope Morales gets that win and does good tonight!
- DJ
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