Schilling Looks For League Leading 5th Win Tonight
As always, you never want to move on to the next city coming off from a loss. Hopefully the Sox can turn around their misfortune that started this lengthy road trip by using their latest win over Toronto as a catalyst to get back in gear.
The Red Sox are first in the AL East, but it’s still very early in the season. The pitching, led by tonight’s hurler (Curt Schilling), came out of the gates of spring training in a mid-season sprint. Play of late, with Wells never being effective and DiNardo basically a “6th” starter at this point, has lead the Sox to drop a few more games than they should have.
At the moment the Sox are a game and a half up on Baltimore, but pretty much the entire league isn’t far behind at this point. So, rather than looking over the shoulder I think it’s much more important for this team to keep pressing. Manny might be getting his swing back for good and go on a tear, and Foulke might be finding himself in 2004 form again. All needed elements for this team to make it happen.
Schilling has been lights out this year. He has certainly cemented himself as the early season ace of this staff after Beckett was unable to close the door on his last outing. Curt Schilling is 4-0 and could possibly go to 5-0 and win 5 games in the month of April (if he does, he would be only the 3rd Red Sox pitcher to do so). The catch: Schilling has never won at Jacobs field.