Hey! Where are our bats?

Oh great.
The Red Sox take a 3 game winning streak into Oakland, get a solid start from John Lackey… and the left their bats in Boston.

Fannnntastic! Look, it is encouraging that Lackey had a good solid start right after Dice-K’s start. But should the Sox really be WASTING them?

And Okajima didn’t exactly look great.
I gave him a tearful good bye last December. That would be a more fitting ending to his Red Sox career than being put on waivers.

The Sox play tomorrow afternoon. Let’s hope their bats showed up.
Lets update the tally.

DODGED BULLET GAMES – 2

April 8 – 9-6 win against the Yankees. (The Sox end their 6 game losing streak with a slugfest. John Lackey stinks but Phil Hughes stinks even more.)
April 10 – 4-0 win against the Yankees. (Beckett and Sabathia duel in a game that was 1-0 until the late innings.)

TEETH GRINDER GAMES – 6

April 1 – 9-5 loss in Texas. (The Sox tie Opening Day in the 8th with an Ortiz homer only to have Bard implode and the Sox let up 4 in the bottom of the 8th.)

April 5 – 3-1 loss in Cleveland. (The Sox drop their 4th straight as the bats are dead in Cleveland.)
April 7 – 1-0 loss in Cleveland. (Sox blow a great Lester performance on a squeeze bunt and Darnell McDonald overrunning the bag to end the game.)
April 12 – 3-2 loss to Tampa Bay. (A solid Lester performance is wasted as Kyle Farnsworth of all people shuts down the Sox.)
April 15 – 7-6 loss to Toronto. (Bobby Jenks implodes with a 4 run seventh inning as the Red Sox waste Pedroia and Youkilis homers and a clutch RBI double by Scuatro.
April 19 – 5-0 loss in Oakland. (Pedroia gets picke doff, the Sox bats go dead and waste a solid Lackey start.)

-4.

The Red Sox are not the worst team in baseball right now. (That would be the Mets.)
But is THAT really the standard we are going for?