QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 27, 2012 -> 10:38 PM)
Of COURSE, the McDonald hit killed us, especially with 2 outs.
But the entire tenor of the entire game changes if we take a 3-0 lead early. We can argue about it, it can't be proven, it's just one of those things you feel in your gut from having watched and listened to hundreds of baseball games in a lifetime.
I don't believe there is an argument at all. Your opinion is a 3 run lead in the first inning would have mattered against what this offense did against Danks. Fine, take 3 runs in that first inning, it doesn't matter, the Sox still lose by 5 tonite.
Homerun or not, Danks was awful tonite. AJs at bat wouldn't have changed that