Red Sox 14, Blue Jays 1: OK, That Was Even Worse.

Pictured: Kyle Drabek and Jacoby Ellsbury. Not Pictured: Any Smoke At  All.

If you're going to get swept in a three-game series, it might as well be by a total combined score of 35-6. Against the team you are, theoretically at least, chasing. At home. On the weekend. With the big crowds.


The only run for the Blue Jays yesterday came, fittingly, off the bat of Jose Bautista, who hit his twenty-first home run of the season. That Jose Bautista has cooled off slightly, and is no longer performing at a level better than Barry Bonds and just a tick below Babe Ruth, is entirely fine. We might have to content ourselves with a player who falls short of that standard, and instead will merely contend for both a batting title and the home run championship, while running away with every advanced metric. 


It's not particularly cheering that Kyle Drabek continues to get pounded while throwing a pretty amazing number of wild pitches and walking pretty much everybody, but every time it happens I remind myself that aside from that miracle game early, Roy Halladay was no great shakes in his rookie season, either. Lots of good pitchers take a while to figure it out, so I don't need to worry about what might otherwise be a worrying lack of smoke of late, right? 


Right?


KS