After Sunday's 12-2 shellacking of the reigning American League champion Rays, I began to feel a little more optimistic about this year's Sox. Small sample sizes be damned, it looks like we might have finally overcome our fear of domed stadiums. Over the four game set at Tropicana Field, the Sox scored 28 runs en route to tying the amount of victories we had there last year. The Sox weren't just relying on the long ball, though, and it seems this year's club may possess the situational hitting skills we had previously lacked.
Much of that optimism was dashed in last night's loss to AL East cellar-dwelling Baltimore Orioles. The Sox managed just three runs on four hits off rookie sinkerballer Brad Bergesen in his major league debut (when asked why he thought the Sox had such trouble against rookie pitchers Sox radio analyst Darin Jackson tried to blame it on a lack of available scouting reports).
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