Mad Max.....

 So the beauty and glory of returning home is now officially over.  After blanking the Tigers in game one, the Sox's and thier mediocre pitching staff may have awakened a sleeping tiger.  Detroit scored a season high seven runs last night, against pitching that would have to be described as aaa level at best.  Jon Lester continues his helter skelter like ways, as seems to be his pattern.  Lester, for the second time this year, failed to qualify for a quality start going 5.1 innings.  The bullpen was equally as bad last night, as Bryan(I am heading back to Pawtucket) Corey failed to record two outs for the second time in four days.

  The Boston pitching staff is not alone in it's mediocre ways.  The Sox left a small farm team on the base paths last night.  Twice leaving them loaded, and once with two aboard.  It is early, and it's hard to tell how much is fatigue from the Japan trip, but this Red Sox squad looks very average, and very inconsistant in every phase of the game.  The only good news from last nights game was it looks like Mike Lowell's injury is only a day-to-day deal, and Sean Casey was 2-4 in his place last night.