Dragnet Double Trouble: Brewers at Sox

Ahhh, now comes the part of the day where the rain delay bites Boston in the butt, right?


After watching Daisuke Matsuzaka do his part - a solid 6.2 inning performance that should have been a full seven, if not for a rare Kevin Youkilis error over at 3B - Boston now has to find a way to win a second game less than two hours after finishing the first. There aren't any lineups yet, but the defensive substitutions used for the ninth inning in Game 1 - Youkilis to first, Mike Lowell in at 3B, Alex Cora at short - will probably prove prolific when it comes to whom plays tonight.

The Sox do, in fact, have one big thing going for them in Game 2: The pitcher is exactly the right guy to put on the mound. By having Tim Wakefield toss game two, the Sox avoid either using Jason Varitek for a second game - which they would have been tempted to do, given his hot streak in game 1 - or use Kevin Cash two days in a row, which they WOULDN'T have been likely to do, particularly with tomorrow's pitching matchup. Now they don't have to, AND they get the additional benefit of throwing Wake's knuckler out there, which is just about the only pitch Dice-K doesn't use on a daily basis.

For what it's worth, here's your pitching matchup. Yes, Dave Bush really has been hit around that badly, though it hardly means he'll get clobbered again tonight. Well, hopefully it means he'll get clobbered around tonight. We'll see.

The one thing that can't happen, of course, is more rain. As much as WMYM loves to use photos of Doppler Radar, it's just not worth it for the headache it'll create with the rest of the season's schedule. It really isn't.

Anyone else feel like ordering up another Big Papi blast? Would work pretty well in the nightcap, no? Or maybe 498 from ManRam. That would probably do the trick, too.

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