Red Sox 8 Pirates 0- Disgusting

Well, it's appropriate to end this nightmarish road trip with a bookend shutout to go with the 9-0 plastering we got on Tuesday. I didn't see a lot of today's game, but I did turn in for the abomination of the third inning. I saw David Ortiz hit a triple, then score on a sac fly. I saw Kip Wells fail to cover first on a grounder to Ward, but the real disgrace was Tike giving Ortiz the triple. Jason Bay took extra fly balls off the Monster on Friday and seemed to do a fairly good job in the series of playing balls off the wall, so where were Tike and Matt Lawton during that session? They definitely failed to learn the quirks of Fenway that they needed to know for this series. Today Tike chased a ball ripped by Ortiz to the fence, forgetting that the fence was some 15 feet high in center at Fenway, watching the ball ricochet off the wall over his head and fly behind him, turning a ball hit by possibly the slowest man alive into a triple. The fact that somehow Jason Bay couldn't throw Ortiz out at the plate on a flyball at the next batter didn't help things. Just a very disheartening end to a disheartening week.