Dispatch from the 16th Floor

I write to you now from the sixteenth floor of the Arlington Wyndham Hotel where we are staying in a Suite after getting a free upgrade. We have a kitchenette and a living area with a sofa; all so we can relax between baseball games.

We walked to the park extremely early today so that we could go to the Legends museum. The picture above is of a jersey and a bat that belonged to Ted Williams. Unfortunately, his head is still in a freezer. That's what I'd really like to see. So, to the game.

The game didn't begin until 9:00 due to a rain delay. By that time, we'd been at the park almost six hours. The good part of all this time is that Charissa was able to get an autograph from Sox reliever Kyle Snyder (who would pitch an entire two thirds of an inning: .2 1 0 0 0 1). Rangers starter Brandon McCarthy went only two innings allowing four runs on only one hit with four walks. Matsuzaka cruised for the first three innings but then he began feeling nauseous and allowed five runs in the fourth inning (he had allowed five runs in his last three starts...combined). He left after a strong fifth, just long enough to get the win after the Sox scored two more in the fifth. The Sox then t-ed off on Frank Francisco who allowed four more runs on four hits in one third of an inning. Sox win 10-6, incidentally, the same score that the Yankees lost to the Angels with which moves the Sox to 10.5 ahead of the second place Yankees in the AL East.

By the way, I gave Sammy Sosa an error in the second allowing Lugo to reach. Sosa then through Pedroia out who had remained close to first so that he could tag. The home town score keeper saw it differently and spared Sosa the error, calling the play a fielder's choice. It remains an error on my score card and I refuse to change it.