Entertaining come from behind win last night. If you combine that with Youk's extra inning smash over the weekend, the Sox have had a flair for the dramatic recently.
During the postgame, Caron and Eckersley were making a big deal about how this is already the nineteenth come from behind victory for the Sox this season. Impressive, sure, but is this necessarily a good thing? We can all enjoy the eighth inning mojo of Sweet Caroline, but if your team is routinely playing catch up it usually means (a) you aren't very good in the first place and (b) at some point, your luck will run out and you will regress to the mean (I am looking at you Tampa Bay).
Sabermetric types claim to have refuted the notion that players might be "clutch", but what about teams? Are certain teams more prone to the come from behind than others and does this correlate with overall talent / home field advantage / chicken sacrifices to Jobu?
Other random observations:
- Despite his blurred vision, Youk makes a late appearance as a defensive replacement. That guy is so clutchy.
- Eric Byrnes' porn stache makes a late disappearance.
- Expandicate your vocabulary: "molinas" and "the moyer effect".
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