Friday Night recap: Bats go silent as Sox fall to Os for second straight night, 2-0

Well it was bound to happen eventually. After the offense lit the world on fire the first ten games or so of June, it was inevitable they were going to come crashing down at some point. A team cant sustain a .300+ batting average for more than a couple weeks, and even thats incredibly hard to do. The Red Sox would only manage three hits in this game, one from Shane Victorino, and two from who else but Jose Iglesias, who is now hitting .451 on the season. Iglesias is a guy I have neglected to talk about, bt considering he was the only bat that showed up for this game, now is a good time.

Jose Iglesias is not some young phenom, he has been around for a while. In well over 200 career games in the minors, he has hit an even .200. After it was apparent the Sox wouldnt make the playoffs last year, Iglesias was promoted to the majors to see what he could do. The answer: not much. In 25 games last season, Iglesias managed just 8 hits, hitting .118 in those 25 games. Any chance Iglesias had at being a mainstay in the majors appeared gone after that performance. After an injury to Stepehen Drew in spring training, the Sox had no chance but to give Iglesias a second chance to play until Drew recovered. Iglesias shockingly took off, and no one really knows how in the world this guy has improved so well in such a short time. In 25 games this year, same sample size as last season, iglesias has an eye popping 37 hits and is hitting .451. He always plays incredible defense, always making amazing plays with the glove. When the season started, everyone thought Iglesias was here temporarily, but now it appears hes here to stay.

The MVP of the game has to go to Ryan Dempster, who took the loss but it was by no fault of his own. Dempster went 7.2 innings, allowing just five hits and two runs, an ERA of 2.50 for the game.

Chris Davis got the Os on the board with a solo shot in the second innings, his 22nd of the season, most in the majors. Adam Jones infield single with two outs in the third made the lead 2-0, and that would be all the offense they would need.

Just chalk this one up as cant win them all, one of those tough games that are inevitable in a long season. This offense is to good for them to play like this every night, so expect a bounceback, hopefully in the next game.