Where Has The Magic Gone?

I sure do hope so, but right now it seems unlikely. 

The first problem, in my eyes, lies with a player whom I gave great praise too several weeks ago.

Jacoby Ellsbury, one of the fastest and most exciting players in the game, is simply not getting on base.  He is not getting hits, which would be okay if he could stay patient and take a walk once in awhile.

With Ellsbury seemingly always walking back to the dugout after three pitches, the smoking hot Dustin Pedroia has no one to drive in.

J.D. Drew and Manny Ramirez following in the line-up, is almost becoming two more guaranteed outs.

Yes, Drew is still having is occasion two-hit game with a homer, but he is not the J.D. Drew of early June.

Manny, as previously stated, is having one of the worst slumps I have witnessed, in my short career as a Red Sox and baseball fan, in general.

Second, I would like to address the pitching.

The starting pitching has not been horrendous.

Yes, Lester had a rough go in Houston, but other than that the Sox are getting about what they expect out of the rotation.

Dice-K is providing his typical aggravating five innings of one run ball; Masterson is trying his best; Wakefield is, well, Wakefield; and Beckett has been pitching closer to last year's form.

It has been the bullpen that has fallen apart.

Last season, if the game got to the seventh or eighth inning it was over.

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