June 21, Red Sox vs. Nationals - Third Inning Sox 4, Nats 0

I just noticed that I have a bump along the underside of my jaw. Yeah, that's what happens when you don't feel for the fence. I ran into it trying to rob a homer in softball after work today. Needless to say, the fence won...I had the ball and then helped it over.
Speaking of not looking where you're going, Damien Jackson leads off the third. Lester starts him off 3-0, but I thought the first pitch was a strike. Yep, looked just like the fourth pitch that was called a strike. 3-1. Full count. Gotta love how he battles. Jackson just tattooed the wall in left. Didn't carom off the wall...bounced off it and over Manny, who took his sweet time to pick it up and lob it in as Jackson coasts into second for the leadoff double.
Here's Brian Schneider. This is the guy that the Sox were rumored to be looking at if they didn't re-sign Tek. Yeah, he just fanned on three pitches. Thanks for coming.
Soriano just hit a flare over Youk's head at first as Jackson scores. It looked like someone just threw it over Youk's head like an overthrow on a screen pass or one of those fake fly balls over Roy Hobbs' head in The Natural.
Jose Vidro up. Man, Lester's curveball just sets all of his other pitches up. 0-2 to Vidro after he fouls one off and Lester comes right back with a fast ball on the inside corner. Two dead.
Here's Jose Guillen. This guy was just a ray of sunshine that the Angels actually released him in the last month of a pennant race in 2004, when he was having a really good year. That really says something. First pitch, first strike fastball. *Jerry Remy playing days story alert* How many times have we heard about how Dick Williams was RemDawg's first manager and how hard he was? Everyone knows he was a hardass to play for! Why not tell the story about how the cops found him in his underwear a few years ago at a hotel. Kind of brought the Hall of Fame support to a screeching halt. 3-1 on Guillen, by the way. Deep fly to left at the wall and....Manny just kind of sticks his glove out as he's trotting to the wall, chewing his gum and the ball lands in his glove, kind of like when you get lucky and toss a sugar cube into your coffee from 15 feet away. Well, maybe you don't do that, but I'm sure that someone does. Onto the bottom of the third, Sox lead 4-1.
Tek leads it off. Nipper's in the dugout talking to Lester. I always wonder what big time stud pitchers think when they have a pitching coach, who was mediocore (sp) at best or just plain stunk, talking to them. Tek grounds out to second.
Here's Tina Cervasio, the anti-Hazel Mae. Tito talking about Lester and being young and blah, blah, blah...how cliche is this? We know he's young, we know this is all new to him. Sheesh.
Oh yeah, Lowell, just grounded out to short. Two outs.
Here's Coco. I wonder if he learned how to hit by watching video of Carl Everett. Everytime he bats lefthanded (he's a switch hitter), he always jerks his head toward the Sox dugout, like he's trying to get some mustard off of his chin. Ground out to second, inning over. Oh, here's Hazel. At least she's looking G-rated during the promo for tonight's NESN sportsdesk, but we all know the Red Sox Rewind commercial is coming.