Too little, too late

George Sherill looks like a high school math teacher. Yet, while giving up 3 runs in the ninth, he managed to strikeout Alex Rodriguez - no surprise, A-Rod looked as if he was trying to hit a 7-run homerun when a 2-run single would have done just as well - Robinson Cano who shouldn't have bothered and Wilson Bettemit, same thing. Those two didn't look interested in anything other than getting back to the dugout.

Let's set that all aside for a moment and wonder why Daniel Cabrera, who once again stuck it to our Yankees, would hit Alex Rodriguez while enjoying a 5-run lead, jeopardizing his start and his team's likely win. Answer: he wouldn't, yet some trigger-happy yayhoo of an umpire decided Cabrera's traditionally awful control was reason enough to run the young starter. What was said umpire thinking? Who knows, but at least that decision was overshadowed by his inability to pick up the no-so-subtle pitch framing of O's catcher Ramon Hernandez.

Note to umpires: when the catcher's glove moves more than 4 inches back toward the plate, it's highly likely the pitch WASN'T a strike.

This, while the Red Sox were getting smoked, again, by the Angels and John Lackey.

ANOTHER wasted opportunity to gain ground.

Argh.