Follow Up Statements From Bobby Jenks

As a follow up to the Bobby Jenks arrest posted earlier in the week. Jenks was arrested for driving under the influence of muscle relaxers in Fort Myers, FL Friday morning. Jenks released the following statement earlier today:

"I am embarrassed by the situation and apologize to my teammates and to the Red Sox organization for any distractions I may have caused. I still need to let the leagal process run its course and until it does, I will not be able to make any further comment," Jenks said.

This statement was expect from the reliever as a public relations move.

Jenks Arrested for DUI

Bobby Jenks has been nothing but disappointment since coming to the Red Sox. This morning but the final stamp on the disappointment when he was arrested around 3:43 am for driving under the influence as well as hit and run  property damage. Jenks was charged with four misdemeanor charges.

Jenks told the Lee County police that he was driving wild because "I took to many muscle relaxers."

In the passed Jenks has had issues with alcohol in the past and was demoted inside the Angels organization. Though Jenks has been quoted in 2010 saying.

"I no longer drink," he said. "No alcohol at all. Not even a beer here or there. Just things like that, really focusing on the future. It was a personal choice. It hadn't gotten too much. I just found myself not wanting to [drink] anymore. I just wanted to be more of a family man. Then this last year, I came to Christ and that was a big influence on my life."

Jenks was leaving Babes nightclub when the incident occurred. Jenks was not under the influence of alcohol as he blew a 0.00 but was of course high on his medication.

Jenks pitched in 19 games in 2011 after which he went on the disabled list. He also starts this season on the 60-day DL after having back surgery on December 31st.

The Red Sox will deal with this situation and are aware of it.

It Makes Me Physical Sick to Lose

I have been in the bed all day with a Migraine and after this most recent lose by the Sox I feel like everything is getting worse. So if I go to the doctors and he ask what is wrong I am going to tell him the Red Sox can't win a game and they are killing me.

Last night the Sox lost to the Blue Jays 7-6 in a game we could have won. Clay Buchholz had a 3-0 lead going into the top of fifth. Dustin Pedroia had just put a laser show on a knocked a solo home run into the stands at Fenway followed by a two-run homer for Kevin Youkilis. With one out Buchholz walks two start batters to bring Corey Patterson up to the plate with two on with men on second and third hits a bases clearing triple to get the ball rolling for the Jays.

After Buchholz had been roughed up in the fifth he gets the ok to back on the mound for a sixth well that was a poor idea. He gives up a lead off walk and a single before Tito says enough is enough. Brings Alfedo Aceves from the bullpen thinking he can control a win well he is unable to and allows Adam Lind to score giving another earned run to Buchholz.

With the game tied Bobby Jenks comes to the mound he has been a soild pitcher so far this season but just not last night. Jenks comes to the mound and gives up the lead off walk to Jason Nix than a single to Yunel Escobar. As if this wasn't enough to he gives up not one but two more hits each for an RBI to make the game 5-3. At this point you think the fish hook has to be coming well instead a mound visit its sweet of the pitching coach to make the long trip to the mound to do nothing because he left Jenks in long enough to give up not one but two more runs!

The Sox are down 7-3 in the bottom of the eighth when a ray of light comes to Fenway. I think I may have even saw some kid in the outfield waving his arms like an angel was there but that could have been the migraine. But the bottom half starts with a ground out by Gonzalez followed by a walk to Youkilis and a walk to David Ortiz. With J.D. Drew at the plate he stikes out swinging. Jed Lowrie comes up to the plate to pinch hit for Jarrod Saltalamacchia, which was the best move Tito made all night. Lowrie singles which scored Youkilis and puts Ortiz at third and starts the rally. Marco Scutaro hits a double down the left field line for a double scoring both Oritz and Lowrie. With a chance for the win Jacoby Ellsbury comes up to the plate and flies out to end the inning.

The Red Sox would not score again to give the game the final score of 7-6. This has been a rough season so far that has left several people sick including myself. Fans are physically, mentally and emotional sick of the Red Sox losing and it is hard for this blogger to be possitive in times like this. I love the Red Sox but to quote Fever Pitch "You love the Sox, but have they ever loved you back?" I know the Red Sox have loved me back in the past but this years group needs to show fans some love quick and start winning some games. They are currently the worst team in baseball and it breaks my heart.

Home is Where the Red Sox Heart is: Red Sox Get First Win

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Today was opening day at Fenway Park and the Evil Empire New York Yankees are in town. With their rival in town what better time to pick up the first win of the year. Well it happened the Red Sox defeated the Yankees 9-6.

Coming into the game today fans was restless and some even starting to panic wondering when the first win would happen. I think the management even was thinking like that to because GM Theo Epstein held a closed-door meet with the team ready to play and it worked. Red Sox set up man Daniel Bard “On a scale of 1 to awesome, it was awesome. It was like Rudy, except there was no prayer at the end.” If it takes pep talks like this all season I say get in their everyday Theo and do work.

Today’s game was like a boxing match that was split up into nine rounds because both teams came out swinging early. The first inning the Yankees put up two runs in the first inning thanks to Robinson Cano knocking in a pair of runs in. The Red Sox could not allow them to steal the show at the home opener so Dustin Pedroia gets up to bat and starts his 2011 Laser Show by knocking a home run into the monster seats.

The top of the second Brett Gardner hit a double to score a run making it 3-1 at the middle of the second. This is when the Red Sox bats decided to go nuts as they would score 5 runs off of Yankee right hander Phil Hughes. All nine Red Sox batters saw action in this inning as Hughes gave up six hits, a fielder’s choice and a walk. After all that action it would be the end of Hughes day.

So with the offense being in full sync you would assume pitching would be as well. Well you know what happens when you assume it makes an ass out of you and me. Most people would think after Jon Lester went seven innings of shut-out ball Thursday that John Lackey would follow with a similar performance not at all. Lackey pitched so poorly that he gave up at least one run in all five innings of work. Lackey was charged with six runs on seven hits, while walking two and striking out a pair and giving up a home run to A-Rod.

Following the Lackey disaster Jarrod Saltalamacchia gets an RBI to give the sox a 7-6 lead and gives Lackey the undeserved win. The seventh inning was another big one for the Sox as they put two more runs on the board. The Seventh started with Adrian Gonzalez hitting a leadoff single followed by Big Papi hitting a green monster double for his third hit of the day. J.D. Drew comes up to the plate and blast a base hit that would allow both Gonzalez and Ortiz to score.

The Red Sox bullpen looked amazing today with the newly addition Alfredo Aceves pitching the sixth, Bobby Jenks in the seventh, Daniel Bard in the eighth and Jonathon Papelbon getting the Save. The four of these guys combined for one hit and five strike outs and most important no runs.

The Red Sox are finally getting in gear for the season getting their bats going, now if pitching can get in gear the Sox are going to be a force to be recon with. Getting home was just what the doctors ordered.

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.