A three game losing streak and being four games out of first made me a bit cranky last night, I’ll admit.  Especially when those three games are lost to division rivals.  I wasn’t “mad” but I was certainly cranky enough to just shut off the television and the computer and not think about baseball for a little while.* Which, I know, is pretty ridiculous.  The AL East is a tight race right now and the team is going to lose some games and there has been a lot of good to take out of these recent series (Beckett for starters) as well as the bad (let’s not talk about Daniel Bard right now). Beckett didn’t face the media last night.  He left before they got to their seats in front of the table where managers and starting pitchers are forced to rehash a game that ended moments before, for better or worse. I can’t give him grief for bolting last night.  After his last start against another division rival, Tampa Bay, where he pitched well but got a no-decision even as the Red Sox got the win thanks to a Jarrod Saltalamacchia walk-off homer, he said that he’d take the [...]

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