And The Two Point Conversion is Good

The Red Sox gave up 15 runs in the Bronx tonight to the Yankees. Clay Buchholz looked lost on the mound tonight giving up 7 runs in 3 2/3 innings. The Red Sox will have to decide if Buchholz can remain in the rotation after failing to build on his one good outing this season. The bad pitching for the Red Sox did not end with Buchholz; Tavarez and Timlin struggled mightily on the mound. Aardsma was the only one who was not lit up tonight.

Offensively the Sox were good, scoring 9 runs on 14 hits. As good as the offense was it could have been better; 11 runners were left on base. The only starter without a hit was Ellsbury (0-5).
David Ortiz is still not hitting well and looked like the slump was starting to get to him.

Overall it was a long slugfest with a bad outcome. On top of that, ESPN took a page out of Fox's playbook and felt the need to show Jeter's parents every 5 minutes. Luckily since it was such a long game we don't have to wait long until Beckett takes the hill and shuts down the Yankees tomorrow.

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