Was at Fenway last night to see the Sox beat the Yankees 9-5 in a sloppy game that saw seven errors (plus a couple of other plays that could have been scored as errors)l. Since five of them were by the Yanks and it's always fun when it's not your team I enjoyed it. If you look at the box score it claims that 11 of the 14 runs were earned but at least eight were really unearned. The game started out bad, with the Sox third baseman (Mauro Gomez - who?) botching plays on the first two batters and then Texeira hitting a 3-run homer for the Yankees.
The good times for Sox fans (and boy, have they been few this year) arrived in the form of Granderson and McDonald botching a routine fly ball, Jeter screwing up a double play grounder, the right fielder falling down on a play and Nix, the third baseball making an error (third base was a black hole for both teams).
The hitting, fielding and base running star for the Sox was Pedro Ciriaco (Who? I never heard of him before last night either) playing his second game with the team.
By the way, before the season began who would have bet that the Pirates, Nationals and Mets would all be at least seven games above .500 going into the All-Star break?
I've often wondered about the psychology causing those errors, but If I had it figured out it might reduce the drama.
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