Challenge Your Opponent

The Red Sox need to be agressive on the bases. While I agree that you should never make the first or last out at 3rd or home, Sheff made a perfect throw, and after looking at the replay turns out Manny was safe. When you need to give your offense a lift, sometimes its necessary to take chances. I will defend Manny on that point. Nice to hear that no one made any comment on the fact that Sheff had to bare hand the ball and make a perfect throw to "get him".

Arroyo looks to be settling down. He made two mistakes when he was ahead in the count. He had Sheff 0-2 and got him on a long fly, and as soon as I saw that pitch I said - "you can't throw that pitch on that count". Sure enough, he did it again to Matsui on a 1-2 and he made him pay.