Red Sox Journal Entries (Season Opens)

Game #1
Opening Day washed out. Played the next day, sleepily. Four base-runners. Stranded and silent. Orioles simply too good. If the season is a marathon, this team needs to find its sneakers.

Game #2
A run in the fourth. Sacrificial fly ball off the bat of Marwin. Radio guys discuss deadened ball. Hint of life from Plawecki. JD with leg-liner RBI. Shadows about to become a problem. Rally in 9th. And then silence. Season begins…or has it?

Game #3
A nightmare is the subconscious bubbling up images that frighten a person into consciousness. The nightmare series with Baltimore is over. But the season is just beginning.

Game #4
Pivetta walks four and the tightrope, but when it matters the slide piece slides past Tampa’s bats. A lead at last, that grounder turns two. Game gets easier with a lead, like the scoreboard tells them not to be scared. Then the runs come easy. The game is not a job. Eleven in all on this Monday. A Pesky pole shot for JD. Put one in the W column. Come back tomorrow.

Game #5
Every season needs a few dustings of magic. Bottom 9, down one, Vasquez sends one soaring…up and over the monster. Wait till the 12th, down one again….JD with a long drive to right…Arozarena gets twisted…