well…*sigh* the Red Sox got swept by the Yankees at home and are now under .500 for the first time this season. This is just not how I envisioned this team. They have a killer offense that we basically haven’t even seen yet, and a pitching staff that’s just straight out awful. At this point, I am not sure what they are going to do, but they better figure it out fast before they slip too far in the standings. It’s only a month into the season but still something needs to be done.

Joe Kelly just didn’t have it yet again last night. It is BEYOND frustrating to see that every single starter in the rotation has an ERA over 4. Let me tell you something, you aren’t going to win games when your starters give up four or more runs EVERY GAME. Of course the Yankees got the offense going early with a Mark Teixeira home run in the first inning, and they really never looked back after that, going up 8-0 at one point.

In the bottom of the sixth, it looked as though the Red Sox offense had finally come alive when they scored 5 runs and got themselves right back into the game. Napoli crushed a 3-run home run into the monster seats, and for a second I thought that the Red Sox might just come back and win this game. Of course I thought wrong.

There was however a little bit of drama in this game between the two AL east rivals. The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry just hasn’t been the same the last few years to me, but last night there seemed to be a spark ignited between these two clubs when Hanley Ramirez was drilled with a pitch by Adam Warren. Ramirez took exception to it and walked very slowly down to first base clearly showing his frustration. Later on the game Edward Mujica intentionally throw at Jacoby Ellsbury on a 3-0 count and he was not pleased. Warnings were then issued to both sides. This was the final game of this particular series, but the Red Sox and Yankees will meet 13 more times in 2015 so it will be interesting to see what happens next. Maybe their rivalry is coming alive again.

The Red Sox will now welcome the Tampa Bay Rays to town to start a 3 game series tonight. It will be Buchholz matched against Jake Odorizzi in the first game of the series. Lets see if Buchholz can make it past the second inning this time. The Red Sox have got to get back in the win column tonight, before they start slipping even more in the standings.