“Momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher” is one of baseball’s more annoying cliches for two reasons. First, it’s essentially a way of saying “calm the fuck down,” and no one wants to calm down. Calming down is for toddlers; I’m not a toddler, so I’d like to enjoy the previous day’s ninth inning comeback for as long as I want, thank you very much. And secondly, the maxim is annoying because it’s extremely true, and no one likes a know-it-all.
The Red Sox starting pitcher today was Josh Winckowski, the man who entered the season seventh on the depth chart (or eighth, if you want to count Lucas Giolio). Sometimes you have no choice but to start that dude, and when that happens all you can hope is that he either pleasantly surprises, or that your bullpen is rested enough to keep the lineup in the game. Winckowski did not pleasantly surprise — giving up a homer to lead-off the game and then failing to get out of the fourth — and the bullpen was extremely not rested, having just completed back-to-back extra innings games. In that sense, I suppose, today’s game made sense. Today, momentum was a quad-A quality starter and an overworked bullpen. As a result, some Yankee rookie from Cohasset hit three homers, Alex Verdugo joined him by going yard, and the Sox got smacked down less than 24 hours after the biggest win of the season.
You suck, momentum.
The Only Stud
Rafael Devers: 2-4, 2 R, 2 RBI, HR, SB, K
If I owned anyone the way Raffy Devers owns Gerritt Cole, I’d be on some kind of Amnesty International watch list.
The Three Duds
Brennan Bernardino: 0.2 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
Greg Weissert: 0.1 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, 4 ER
Man, do we need Dick Fitts to turn into a useful piece so Yankees fans don’t think they already won the Verdugo trade.
Ceddanne Rafaela: 0-4, 3 K
Life comes at you fast, kid.
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