Sox 0-4 Fans Need to Relax it's Only April

After yet another lose last night making them 0-4. Red Sox fans all over are going to record books, cussing players and some thinking of jumping off a building. But don’t do it there are still 158 more games to play and it just April and at the first week of the season.

Last night’s game against the Indians was not a great one as the bats wasn’t popping and Beckett wasn’t pitching. Though Josh Beckett did not pitch well enough to get the win, he did bring the best performance of the season. He started out strong early in the game but had a rocky fourth inning and after that wasn’t good for anything. Beckett gave up five hits and three runs all earned but were able to find the zone. He struck out four batters and issued 65 strikes out of a 106 pitches in the game in five innings of work.

There was one thing that was great last night and that was the bullpen. The Red Sox had three complete innings of no hit baseball out of the pen. Matt Albers came in the sixth innings after Beckett gave up his third run in the game. Albers pitching was amazing as he issued three strike outs while walking one batter. He thought 22 pitches and 11 of them were in for strike. The seventh brought Bobby Jenks who also faced four batters while striking out three and a walk. The eighth has Daniel Bard going three up and three down. This is the kind of pitching we need from the bullpen if our starts aren’t going to be able to go the extra innings to win the game.

Though pitching was good the offense was non-existent again for the fourth straight game. The team only had four hits in this game and two of them were from Dustin Pedroia as he attempts to fuel the offense. Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia finally got his first hit of the season which resulted in an RBI as David Ortiz scored the only run of the game.

The Red Sox weakness came in the leadoff roles as Jacoby Ellsbury and Carl Crawford went 0-8 together in the top of the order.

As I said earlier the Red Sox are off to a poor start but it is still early in the season and there is plenty of baseball left. Everyone is freaking out about this but historically our pitching staff has bad Aprils and Carl Crawford who everyone is freaking out over always gets off to a bad start, just ask the dozen Rays fans out there. Things will turn around and the Red Sox will be the team everyone predicted them to be at the start of the season. So just relax, grab a brew and wait for the lasor show that is the Red Sox to get started.