Posted by:
Anonymous on
May 1, 2007 at
9:46PM EST
We all know baseball is a marathon, not a sprint. Often April's contenders are October's pretenders. With that said let's take a quick peek at the Red Sox after one full month. They own the best record in baseball at 16-8. Josh Beckett joined Babe Ruth and Pedro Martinez as the only pitchers in Red Sox history to win five games in the month of April. David Ortiz had his customary seven home runs in that same span. If I were to hand out a tenth player award for April it would be a split decison. The award would be shared by Alex Cora and Hideki Okajima. Cora hit .360 in 14 games with seven RBI, just one less than J.D. Drew. Okajima gave up a home run on his very first pitch in Kansas City on opening day but he has been perfect since. He hasn't given up a run and has 17 strikeouts in just under 13 innings. Pretty good stuff from a couple of irregulars.
