Hannes was hit by a Randy Johnson fastball for uttering:
 HZ> Twenty in a game twice makes a differnece.
You can't win if you allow 1 run and your team scores 0. This year, the Sox 
averaged 4.41 runs per 9 innings for Clemens. For this year, that's not very 
good to start off and half a run a game less than the second worst on his 
team. The best support that I've seen him have was last year, when he got 
5.85 runs per game, which was considerably higher than his 5-year average of 
4.38 (His support the year before that was 4.06).
 HZ> Frye and Nomar Garcipiara. They added Mark Brandenburg and Kerry Lacy to
 HZ> the Bullpen.
They didn't add an Aguilera. Slocumb's best work came after they had fallen 
off the pace (At the beginning of August, with Boston 15 1/2 games out, 
Slocumb had 15 saves and 7 blown saves. He did far better from then on when 
he had 16 saves and 1 blown save. If you take away his first 22 save 
opportunties, you get a pretty good year but if you figure it all in, it 
doesn't look as good). The one thing that Aguilera did was move people out of 
positions that they couldn't handle. Slocumb didn't really do that until the 
Sox were well out of it. They could have put any number of pitchers into the 
closer's role and gotten the same kind of results that they got out of 
Slocumb up until then (Which is what they were doing last year before they 
acquired Aguilera). It remains to be seen if Slocumb can put together a WHOLE 
year instead of being great in parts. He slumped in the second half of last 
year and didn't pick up the pace this year until the middle of August.
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