Dice-K (1-2) has found out the hard way – if he ever doubted it – that Baseball is a *team* game.
After his first game win – a 10 ‘K’ performance – he’s pitched two more ‘quality’ starts, yet picked up two losses as his batters fell silent, posting only a solo David Ortiz home run in those two outings.
With Boston peppering runs in games Dice-K hasn’t pitched it begs the question: why?
It seems facing Dice-K is just the tonic opposing pitchers need to bring their ‘A’ game to new levels of excellence. An unfortunate turn of events for a batting line-up that whilst potent is also patchy, with Crisp, Pedroia, Varitek and strangely Ramirez all getting off to sluggish starts.
Dice-K’s next start is Sunday against the Yankees for whom a suddenly slap happy A-Rod is leading the league in prompting inane home-run calls ‘an Aaaa-bomb for Aaaa-Rod’ (aaargghh!).
So, DK is going to have to find a way to waken the Bean Town bats and still the Yankee timber there could be an international incident … because if A-Rod A-Bombs … well …
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