Red Sox Game 68 recap: Chris Davis in extras. What a shock.

Highest WPA: Junichi Tazawa, .201 (1 1/3 IP, H)
Lowest WPA: Felix Doubront, -.222 (4 2/3 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 5 K, BB, HR, 2 HBP)

Well, that was an ordeal. Alex Wilson was lucky for 8 crucial outs with Andrew Bailey available because you have to save the closer in case there’s a save situation after infinite innings of inferior pitching. That luck ran out, appropriately enough, when the BABIP gods gave Davis a bloop single. And Wilson still doesn’t come close to the losing WPA title!

In Doubront’s defense, the world makes no damn sense when Danny Valencia’s on the James Loney “I sucked even worse for Boston than for the team that dumped me in 2012, but I’ll have a career year for another AL East team in 2013!” program. Not in Felix’s defense: my general impatience with his control continues to grow, and my fuse was shortened thanks to an annoying color commentator. If Dennis Eckersley takes over for Jerry Remy full-time in the near future, it might just be the last straw for me watching the NESN streams of Sox games.

Meanwhile, Shane Victorino looks as useless as Goog expected; Stephen Drew is surprising the entire blog by being a terrible hitter; and Mike Napoli is “ill” (probably by looking at his stats for the week). The last was actually a blessing in disguise, as Mike Carp’s fourth inning homer looked pretty big at the time, but Napoli’s cold streak is extremely frustrating during a run of close, long games.