Home Win Streak Snapped

I think we all saw this one coming. After last night's emotion and excitement, it was natural to expect a letdown. Add in the fact that the lineup was missing Manny, Big Papi and Ellsbury and facing a pitcher that has always been tough on the Sox and you get an 8-0 thrashing.

It started out bad and never got better. Big Bart didn't have his good stuff and couldn't make a good throw to second base. His two errors led to the Mariners' first three runs of the game.

However, if Lugo was even an average defensive shortstop, he would have caught the ball in the first and possibly turned an inning-ending double play instead of whiffing on it and opening the door to two unearned runs.

BOX SCORE: Mariners 8, Red Sox 0

Felix Hernandez was never really in trouble and breezed through six innings. The Sox did have the bases loaded with 2 outs in the 2nd, but Coco struck out on a weak check swing.

The Red Sox have now inexplicably dropped 3 of 4 to the worst team in baseball. At least they have only one more series with Seattle after this weekend.

Coco rightfully got suspended 7 games for inciting Thursday's brawl. It was a stupid thing to do, but Coco will never admit that. For some reason Lester was suspended 5 games, but he'll just be pushed back a day so it won't really affect the rotation.

The other big news from Thursday was the blow up between Youk and Manny in the dugout. Reports say Manny was reacting to Youk throwing another tirade after a bad at-bat. Apparently the team has spoken to Youk about this before, so after initially figuring Manny was at fault, it looks like Youk might have had this coming. Hopefully they can move past this and become one big happy family again.