Obviously the main story of this horrifying weekend is the performance by the Red Sox pitching staff. Despite solid outings from David Wells and Curt Schilling, the rotation totally blew it, as they have been doing for quite some time now.
The Red Sox used seven pitchers over this weekend who they expected would play important roles this year: Schilling, Wells, Josh Beckett, Jonathan Papelbon, Keith Foulke, Mike Timlin and Julian Tavarez. Those pitchers threw 28 2/3 innings, allowed 20 runs, all earned (6.28 ERA), struck out 23 men, walked 16 and allowed just two home runs. Not exactly what you're looking for, but not dreadful considering how bad Beckett's perfomance was -9 walks in 5 2/3 innings?!?
The Sox used seven other guys, including both starters last Friday. Those pitchers threw 17 1/3 innings, allowed 29 runs, 28 earned (14.54 ERA), walked 15, struck out 17 and allowed five homers.
As Joe Sheehan points out, the Sox are last year's Yankees, but without Shawn Chacon and Aaron Small. Before they were acquired by their respective teams, there was virtually no difference between Jason Johnson and Chicon or Kyle Snyder and Small.
Here are their numbers up to the time they were signed by NY and Boston:
Player ERA K/9 BB/9 HR/9 K/BB
Johnson 5.96 3.7 2.6 1.17 1.45
Snyder 5.91 4.4 2.3 1.09 1.88
Chacon 5.20 6.3 4.8 1.34 1.31
Small 6.35 5.2 5.2 2.38 1.00As you can see, the Yankees got over 150 innings of quality starting pitching while the Sox got a steaming pile of shit.
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