Game 24: Red Sox 2, A's 4: The "Hey, At least we have Will middlebrooks" Game



This guy...is here!!! via Getty Images

He's Here! He's Here! Will Middlebrooks is finally here,
Y'all!

But, Bad news, his efforts were lost in the sea of the horrible at bats by Dustin Pedroia and Adrian Gonzalez in TWO big situations.

The Red Sox simply cannot afford guys missing in big situations, especially ones who are paid hundreds of millions of dollars to do so.

Also, another bright surprise lost in the crowd was one of Clayton Mortenson (who?). Yeah, you're right, Who. Clayton Mortenson was acquired via the trade with Colorado that sent Marco Scutaro in exchange for a reliver and cash. Cash that was going to go towards bringing Roy Oswalt in from Free Agency, but since that didn't happen, it went back in the back pocket for the trade deadline.

Mortenson has bounced around a bit since being a first rounder in 2007 by the St. Louis Cardinals. A few years and several mechanic changes, He was given the chance to start, but it never seemed to click.
Now that he is a Red Sox, he has been given free range to go back to his old mechanics and it's certainly paying off.

Now, on to the game. If I said it was a total disaster, I would be lying.

It was a total Offensive disaster. I understand that by watching baseball, it is not like any other sport. You ARE going to lose games, and you ARE going to have bad nights. But two in a row like this is unacceptable. A couple swings of the bat could have changed this to a W.

First, the defense. Let's just say Cody Ross has 3 runs he needs to find a way to give back to Daniel Bard, who pitched fairly decent, until the errors. I know Ross was acquired to platoon outfield at first, and his bat second, and defense 3rd, but it's not like catching a fly ball is a real challenge for this guy.

Second, Ummm, Hey, Adrian. You feeling okay? 0-17 is non Adrain-eque.

A loss, is a loss, which is a loss. And a series loss at home to the Oakland Athletics. These are the kind of things that we have to pay for come September. And from the looks of things, we will need to write a whole bunch of checks that will hopefully not bounce.

Go Red Sox!