Three Nights in Boston, Pt. 3

Sox 8, Yanks 0 is the frequency, Kenneth.
And the immediate response is, How does this keep happening?

Yeah, yeah, OK, the obvious: Our starting pitching's been better, our bullpen's been better and last night we got the sort of late-game pluck and timely hitting that the Yankees have been heaping on the hapless heads of everyone else in the Western hemisphere.

You know what, too? Our manager's better.

In the big picture, though, here's what I'm seeing: one team that's an ideal blend of home-grown talent and smart trade/free agent acquisitions enjoying a deserved upper hand on a team that's a Frankenstein, lumbering around and terrorizing the countryside until inevitably being laid low for the affront to nature that it is.

At least I'd like to think that.
We'll have to wait until all is said and done in October (and it will come down to that) to give the final assessment.

For now, it it is interesting to note that, this week in Beantown, the Yankees were not the team hitting on all cylinders that they were coming into the series.
To wit:
*Mark Teixeira tears it up one night, but the bats behind him are quiet.
*The bottom of the order and Jeter at the top hit well the next night, only to have Damon and Teixeira fall silent or hit long, harmless outs.

The Sox, on the other hand, had that pick-me-up Mojo, particularly when it came to the vaunted relief pitching that hardly was lights out across the board.
*Ramirez bombs on Wednesday, Oki bails him out.
*Delcarmen struggles Thursday, Saito saves the day.

And Pap closing both out was a welcome sight.
As was Papi hitting two home runs.

And here's one other thing: Is it a given that we must deal Penny? The dude's only shown a steady arc of improvement. Six scoreless last night.
Question is, did Penny feel like he was pitching for his Boston job or auditioning for his next employer?

Hate to beat a tired drum, but Penny is not the guy to come out of the rotation upon the arrival of John Smoltz.
But, hey, this issue of excess pitching is a good problem to have on June 12, sitting at 36-24 and two games up.