In the movie “Kill Bill: Volume 1” director Quentin Tarantino gave the audience the masked Yakuza gang known as the Crazy 88’s. The Red Sox pitching staff in the last week presented their own version of the 88’s as two stellar pitchers both had the ignominious statistical line of allowing eight runs – all earned in a start.
Steven Wright managed his gifting in just 1.1 innings in which four servings left the yard. Wright’s early season earned run average suddenly ballooned into four figures. Wright’s first start of the season was a rather pedestrian effort of 6.