Stupid is as Stupid Does

Nice to see Brooks Baldwin take my criticism to heart (yes, I think my reach is that great. Why not?) And Korey Lee. And Gavin Sheets. If only it added up to a win. Giants 5 Sad Sox 3. Sheets had an RBI pinch-hit single in the eighth while Lee had two hits with a double. Baldwin? Two singles, two walks, a run and a stolen base from the nine hole. If only some of that had rubbed off on Lenyn Sosa. Interim manager Grady Sizemore must have been channeling his inner Mickey Mouse when he made up last night’s lineup, with Sosa batting leadoff. Sosa is batting .091 over his last seven games, .120 over his last fifteen. The promise of mid-June is long faded, I’d say. Sosa batted in the top of the third, bases loaded nobody out; he struck out on three pitches. In the fifth with one out and one on, he popped to third. With two out and one on in the seventh, he flied out to right. Sox nation was spared a fourth Sosa at-bat in the ninth. Sosa has fourteen runs scored, seventeen RBIs and 48 hits in 227 at-bats vs. eight, eight and 20 in 90 at-bats for Baldwin, who’s also batting .261 over his last seven games and .241 over his last fifteen. These would seem to be two players headed in opposite directions. The smart thing to do would be to call up Colson Montgomery from Triple-A, his .206 BA be damned; .206 would fit perfectly in this lineup. Heck, Miguel Vargas looks clueless batting .179, and he still gets to play. That, or show some institutional loyalty to someone like Danny Mendick, who’d make a good coach in the not-too-distant future. Or get Bryan Ramos back up here. This is a team knocking at infamy’s door with its 30-96 record. Standing pat is the last thing it should be doing.