What's that sound?

[BrandoFan]

Ah, yes- it's the sound of Sox hitters padding their stats on mediocre (awful to be more accurate) pitching.

 

 

I am lovin' it though. Go Sox!

[Molto]

four runs is hardly "padding", but I get what you are saying. Thing is, they get beat by a suprising amount of mediocre pitchers too.

[BrandoFan]

four runs is hardly "padding", but I get what you are saying.

 

Considering ohow many balls were hit right AT (Jimenez, Val, Maggs) people or to the warning track (Frank, Val, Paulie, Olivo to name a few) BEFORE the 7th inning, it could have easily been blown wide open, say, 8-2, and with knuckleballer Sparks out of there, hit parade might have continued into the morning. Easily.

 

Thing is, they get beat by a suprising amount of mediocre pitchers too.

 

Then how do you explain Sox normally being one of the leading teams in runs scored? I mean it can't all come against good pitching in important pennant games

 

Outside of Crede (hits any pitching ala Sweeney) and Valentin (seems to come up with a big hit after big hit, but pretty inadequate with bases empty), Sox hitters have this tendency to pad their stats for the lack of a better word, even more so than othe contending teams. I think it has something to do with us being one of the youngest teams in the majors (read: impatience and overswinging, something that doesn't fly against good pitching, but goes real well with mediocre fastballs and hanging curves that come from teams like Detroit and Tampa Bay and Baltimore. Also, Sox often lose 2 out of 3 but the one that they win, they score 8+ runs, thus making the overall offtnsive stats appear better than they actually should be. Example: we absolutely killed Minnesota at the Cell late last year only to be swept by a total of 4 friggin' runs a week later.