Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Have I started to panic? Yes. No. I mean…perhaps.
The Red Sox are slumping at the worst possible time winning once out of their last six contests. BUT, two more games remain in Oaktown and three in Seattle before the boys come back home. No one should have expected the Sox to win both series out west. The cards are stacked against them: four lefty starters, pitchers parks, slumping offense. The Yanks played 500-ball on this same stretch (home and aways) in May and I was hoping for something similar. We shall see in about twelve days.
As for tonight’s starting pitcher,
"Apparently I'm the only way we're going to make the playoffs, even though Pedro [Martinez] and I won 42 games last year and we didn't make it," said Lowe. "It's up to me, apparently. The whole season depends on my 10 starts the rest of the year. That's what I understand."
"I expect to pitch better, but there's no formula [for making the playoffs]," he said. "If I lose [tonight], is the season over? Do we quit and go home?"
"I like the fact that everyone wants you to pitch [well], but everyone keeps talking about who's going to be the No. 2 guy in the playoffs," Lowe said. "We haven't made the playoffs in four years. You've got to get there first, and it takes everybody to make it there." (Hohler, Boston Globe)
Nice attitude – Donkey Boy!
DLowe, you are correct. It does take an entire team to make the playoffs, but you are an important Cogswell Cog. DLowe step it up and pitch better. The TEAM needs it now more than ever from their other “ace.” And if that doesn’t motivate you, then 30+ year-old starting pitchers with an ERA above 5 do not get their option picked up too often.
The Red Sox are slumping at the worst possible time winning once out of their last six contests. BUT, two more games remain in Oaktown and three in Seattle before the boys come back home. No one should have expected the Sox to win both series out west. The cards are stacked against them: four lefty starters, pitchers parks, slumping offense. The Yanks played 500-ball on this same stretch (home and aways) in May and I was hoping for something similar. We shall see in about twelve days.
As for tonight’s starting pitcher,
"Apparently I'm the only way we're going to make the playoffs, even though Pedro [Martinez] and I won 42 games last year and we didn't make it," said Lowe. "It's up to me, apparently. The whole season depends on my 10 starts the rest of the year. That's what I understand."
"I expect to pitch better, but there's no formula [for making the playoffs]," he said. "If I lose [tonight], is the season over? Do we quit and go home?"
"I like the fact that everyone wants you to pitch [well], but everyone keeps talking about who's going to be the No. 2 guy in the playoffs," Lowe said. "We haven't made the playoffs in four years. You've got to get there first, and it takes everybody to make it there." (Hohler, Boston Globe)
Nice attitude – Donkey Boy!
DLowe, you are correct. It does take an entire team to make the playoffs, but you are an important Cogswell Cog. DLowe step it up and pitch better. The TEAM needs it now more than ever from their other “ace.” And if that doesn’t motivate you, then 30+ year-old starting pitchers with an ERA above 5 do not get their option picked up too often.
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