Why? Why? Why Would You Throw That Pitch?

This was not a good pitch to throw

For those who didn’t know, those were the words that AJ Burnett said to himself (you could read his lips on TV) as he watched the once again frightening David Ortiz’s 20th home run of the year (raise your hand if on May first you thought he’d get to 20. Nobody? I thought so) sail out of Fenway yesterday afternoon. The homer was one of four hit by the Sox, as the Steinbrenner clan watched some ungodly amount of their money flow down the toilet on a guy who they paid to beat the Sox on the strength of his previous record. Youkzilla had two, every member of the starting nine other than Ells and the Captain had a hit, and Gonzo continued to prove how much he loves being back in a Red Sox uniform (and a pennant race) by hitting a bomb of his own.

Youk pointed to the sky after each of his two homers in tribute to fallen former temmate Greg Montalbono, who lost his battle with cancer a few days ago.

What really struck me about the game (other than the fact that Junichi was awesome, mostly thanks to SMC’s reverse cheer) was the amount of Cluthitude® on display by the Sox. They scored 13 runs with two outs, getting hit after hit when the Yanks pitching staff only needed one break. Of course, if your catcher (that pear shaped bastard) kkeps calling for fastballs and disagreeing with his pitcher it makes the day alot easier for the Sox hitters. A dollar says that Molina catches Fatbathia tonight after the display of shitty pitch calling that Posada put on (Burnett thought he should have thrown more curveballs, but after Gonzo blasted a hanger over the monster I can understand why Jorge would have wanted to shy away from it). Junichi himself was pretty clutch, getting out of a few jams and making Douche-Rod look foolish on more than one pitch (did you see him basically back away and step out of the box before that curveball broke back over the plate for a strike?).

And so today we say good bye to Brad Penny for the forseeable future, because the Elder Statesman is on his way back and Junichi won that spot in the rotation. I personally hope that they create an interesting injury for him as opposed to sending him to the pen, because the only thing worse than a Brad Penny start at this point would be Brad Penny coming out of the bullpen in a tight spot.

Beckett takes the hill tonight against the guy who he dominated in the fifth game of the ALCS two years ago. Fatbathia won the Cy that year over Beckett, payback can be a bitch though.

Go Sox.

Done.