If you replace "Bears" with "Scott Kazmir," you get a pretty good idea of what just went down in Game 2.
In his first post-season start Kazmir was crappy. He his Orlando Carbera, walked Nick Swisher, and allowed a single to Jermaine Dye. Bases loaded. No outs. Meat of the order coming up. And they scored... Two fucking runs, on a single and sacrifice fly. Garbage.
Mark Buehrle came up pretty big. I can't say he came up huge, because he is going to get hung with a loss in a must-win game, but damnit, he held a 90-win team to 3 runs for nearly 8 innings. So, while Buehrle doesn't get an A+ with a star for this effort (his line is worse than he pitched, as he wore down toward the end and the bullpen allowed 4 more runs to score in the 8th), but the story of the night... No offense.
So, the Sox are down 0-2 to Tampa Bay. But we're coming home to a real ballpark. It's not over, Danks and Floyd have been huge, and if we can send it back to Florida tied at 2, I don't dislike our chances.
More later... Maybe tonight, maybe not.
Fairweathers.
