Red Sox outfielder
Mike Cameron:
unwitting metaphor
The Boston Red Sox passed the first two weeks of the 2010 season as if they were a kidney stone: with much anticipation, discomfort, and relief when it was over.
Sure, the metaphor is obvious, but it is just too fitting given center fielder Mike Cameron’s abdominal pain – which, as it happens, actually was caused by a kidney stone.
Consider, if you will, even these few salient facts:
- They lost seven of 11 games, four at the hand of their bullpen.
- They committed seven errors and suffered other uncredited lapses as their new outfielders learned on the job and their new third baseman lost a grounder in the lights (or so it seemed).
- They saw Jon Lester post a 7.20 ERA and Manny Delcarmen barely top 90 mph.
- They endured struggles by David Ortiz and J.D. Drew to stay above .100.
- They watched Adrian Beltre drive a knee into Jacoby Ellsbury and drive him out of the lineup for a week.
So much for the club’s improved defense, powerful pitching, and professional hitting – and perhaps my prediction that the Sox will win 93 games. Playing this way, they’ll be lucky to win 80.
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