Friday, May 13, 2011

Matchup 5/13/11 - 5/15/11 Red Sox vs. Yankees

5/13/11  Clay Buchholz 3-3, 4.19 vs. Bartolo Colon 2-1, 3.86   Prediction: Randy- Sox Win   Brad: Sox Win!
  - This game is the key for the red sox. If they win they have a shot at taking 2 or possibly sweeping
  -  I've seen Clay pitch 2 times this year. First game was against the yankees at the Fens and he was God awful. However, he has started to turn it around recently and showed a lot of stones by coming back from a long rain delay to pitch as good as he has in his career.

5/14/11 Josh Beckett 2-1, 1.99 vs.  CC Sabathia 3-2, 2.89    Prediction: Randy: Sox Lose     Brad: Sox Win
- Josh Beckett has been a savior for this team. He pitched a gem agaainst yankees last series. Can he do it again?

5/15/11  Jon Lester 4-1, 2.96 vs. RHP Freddy Garcia 2-2, 2.61    Prediction: Randy Sox Win   Brad: Sox win
- Sox have a decidedly SP match up. Lester is the ace of this team
- Lester is coming off an awful game where he apologized to his teammates and fans on his twitter account @Jlester31
- It is early for must win games but this is close to one. If they lose this game fans may start lining up on bridges all over New England


Note: Over Last 10 years, Series Record 87-83 Yanks. That is crazy how close these series are and be prepared for a 4 hour a game!

3 comments:

  1. Brad- Game 2 why do you think the Sox pull this one out? (I hope you are right)

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  2. I will give a great bit of credit to Brad and Josh Beckett last night! What a great win and call. The sox need a big performance from Mr. Lester tonight and get this team to .500 something that has been elusive for this team!!

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  3. Great Job by the Red Sox offense to pull out the sweep agasint the aging men in the Bronx! I went 2-1 this series. Great job by Brad for predicting the Sweep! Welcome to .500 Sox fans! On to the next!

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