The Red Sox are coming! The Red Sox are coming!
Or, as my Boston-educated daughter corrects me, the “Sawx.”
Forget everything that has happened up to this point in the Phillies season. This is the series everyone has been waiting for.
The Boston Red Sox, anointed by many as the best team in baseball and fully recovered from an almost unexplainable miserable start to the season, invade Citizens Bank Park for a three-game set starting Tuesday night.
And the series will kick off with a dream matchup: Cliff Lee vs. Josh Beckett.
Just how important this series has become is probably best seen by what the Phils have done to their pitching rotation. Roy Halladay pitched a complete game shutout yesterday, so he is not available.
After Lee pitches the opener, the Phils were looking at the possibility of trotting Vance Worley and Kyle Kendrick out there.
Not any more. The team announced Sunday they will push up Cole Hamels’
next start and throw the ace lefty on Thursday night. Kendrick will then start the opener of a series in Toronto next weekend.
The Bosox might be thought as the best team in baseball, but it’s the Phils who still have the best record, sitting pretty at 49-30, a .620 winning clip, best in baseball.
Boston actually is a half game behind the Yankees in the AL East, at 45-32.
Let the games begin.
Or, as my Boston-educated daughter corrects me, the “Sawx.”
Forget everything that has happened up to this point in the Phillies season. This is the series everyone has been waiting for.
The Boston Red Sox, anointed by many as the best team in baseball and fully recovered from an almost unexplainable miserable start to the season, invade Citizens Bank Park for a three-game set starting Tuesday night.
And the series will kick off with a dream matchup: Cliff Lee vs. Josh Beckett.
Just how important this series has become is probably best seen by what the Phils have done to their pitching rotation. Roy Halladay pitched a complete game shutout yesterday, so he is not available.
After Lee pitches the opener, the Phils were looking at the possibility of trotting Vance Worley and Kyle Kendrick out there.
Not any more. The team announced Sunday they will push up Cole Hamels’
next start and throw the ace lefty on Thursday night. Kendrick will then start the opener of a series in Toronto next weekend.
The Bosox might be thought as the best team in baseball, but it’s the Phils who still have the best record, sitting pretty at 49-30, a .620 winning clip, best in baseball.
Boston actually is a half game behind the Yankees in the AL East, at 45-32.
Let the games begin.
Comments