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No first inning blues today for Clay

Email|Link|Comments (3) Posted by Gordon Edes, Globe Staff July 23, 2008 04:55 PM

With the help of an inattentive Ichiro, who was caught napping after his leadoff single, Clay Buchholz breezed through the first inning, after being touched for a total of five first inning runs in his previous two starts.

Ichiro led off by lining a single just past Jed Lowrie, but wasn't paying attention when he took a walking lead and was picked off.

Buchholz proceeded to strike out the next two hitters, Jose Lopez and Raul Ibanez.

Sox did not cash in on back to back walks to Dustin Pedroia and J.D. Drew, so it was scoreless after one.

There are trade rumors swirling through the Sox clubhouse. Some players are amused by the notion of planting false rumors, hoping to make reporters look stupid--Lance Berkman to the Rays fit in that category--but there may be a legit one involving the Sox. We'll keep you posted.

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3 comments so far...

Nothing to do with the progress of today's game, but I just logged in to Yahoo! Sports and their fantasy listings identify Pedroia as one of three "not hot" batters, despite a recent .429 batting average. What the heck are they smoking over there?

Posted by David in Toledo July 23, 08 05:12 PM

Well hooray for Clay. Seriously, if we have to trot Clay Bucholz out there every fifth game in a playoff race, the Sox are going to have to win 75 percent of the other four games.

Posted by Who Ray July 23, 08 05:15 PM

Let's see now, the sox won today and buchholz struck out seven batters in 5.1 innings. And they'll have to win 3 out of 4 of the other games, huh ? As long as they win, who cares if your formula makes any sense at all or not. Don't sell clay short just yet.

Posted by Dalton Jones July 24, 08 12:54 AM