The Return of Automatic Win Day
Tavarez takes the mound tomorrow against Roy Halliday and the Toronto Blue Jays. I have to work, so I'll miss a vast majority of the game. No matter. I've already chaulked it up in the win column for the Bo-Sox.
Today's game was pretty good. Wakefield pitched extremely well before yielding to Brendan Donnelly. Donnelly also was effective in the 8th, setting things up for Papelbon in the ninth. If Donelly has another good outing next time, I'll reconsider my position on him as a set up man.
The Red Sox offense was dependant on the Long Ball Tonight. Doug Mirabelli went deep for the second time in his past two games, meaning he's hit two more homers than Varitek this year...in a fifth of the games. Mike Lowell and David Ortiz also contributed with round trippers.
So yeah...automatic win day tomorrow means Red Sox take two of three from Toronto. This Friday, the Yankees are coming. The Yankees are coming.
2 comments:
I'm kind of curious how Julian Tavarez has become associated with "automatic win" in your mind...I appreciated him in our pen a couple years back, but came to associate him with "automatic meltdown", like when he broke his hand in the playoffs after repeatedly giving up homeruns to Carlos Beltran (who didn't during that playoffs).
Maybe he will be what you think, who knows?
Automatic Win Day derives from late August of last season when everyone in a Red Sox uniform not named Julian Tavarez decided to cash it in for the year. Tavarez on the other hand went on a tear. Because of injuries, he was forced into the starting rotation. In his starts, a struggling Sox team went 5-1. In September, he had an ERA of 3.60, which included a complete game 1 run gem against the eventual second place Toronto Blue Jays. He also hustled covering first and even ran down a few ground balls pitchers normally let go. It got myself and some friends thinking "Tavarez would've had it" any time anyone messed up defensively. That evolved to "Tavarez would have hit it" anytime anyone got out. For some reason, this continued during the Patriots season. "Tavarez would've caught it..." or "Tavarez would've sacked him..." "Tavarez would've had the pick..." Basically, his hard work made him kind of a Cult Hero amoung me and my two best friends. I don't think many others were watching at the time, which is why every five days isn't nationally recognized as automatic win day...yet.
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