Coco Crisp/80s night

Last time I mentioned Crisp was to point out how much he sucks and yet he's not even one of the top two problems in the Red Sox lineup. Ever since then he's been going on a tear. His last 8 games, he's 15 for 27 with three homeruns. Plus, it seems like every night he makes a stupendous diving catch. His average has sored to .258. Coco Crisp, I solute you!

Diasuke took the mound last night against Greg Maddux, both teams in their throwback 80s uniforms. Yes, the Red Sox had a different uniform in the 80s. The BOSTON on the away jerseys were blue. And there was a HUGE space between the S and the T. Every time a Red Sox got up, the Padres messed around with their pictures to make them like 80s heavy metal guitar heroes, with long hair and nose rings and make up and whatnot. Except for Big Papi. He looked like Mr. T.

Speaking of T, I still can't believe the space was that big.
"BOS TON".

Anyway, Diasuke got in trouble early. In the bottom of the first, he walked the bases loaded with no one out, and somehow, some way managed to get out of the jam only allowing one run. The Red Sox got two in the fourth, on a two strike single by Youkilis (vote for Youk!) and a RBI single by Varitek. Maddux thought he had strike three to Youk, but the umpire didn't give it to him. The announcers brought up the fact that the home plate ump was a minor league guy who sometimes fills in for vacationing Major League Umps. Probably a good thing for Maddux, because he was screaming at him and would have been tossed by a Major League guy. Though Maddux always gets those calls a foot off the plate, so the Major League guy would have probably rung Youk up. Anyway, Maddux hit in the bottom of the fourth and struck out looking. When he heard strike three called I thought he was gonna explode.


Diasuke pitched six, giving way to Lopez and Delcarmen in the eight. Manny Delcarmen was called up recently since Donnally went on the DL and though he hasn't really pitched in many jams, he's been pretty good. That's a good thing. The future of the Red Sox bullpen depends heavily on Delcarmen and Craig Hanson.

Okajima came out for the eight and was his usual 1-2-3 self, striking out two in the process before yielding to Jonathan Papelbon who struck out 2 to earn the save.