Last weekend I took a break from watching Phillies baseball to travel to New York, where old friend Ranger Suarez was pitching against the Yankees. Sadly, Ranger did not have one of his better days; the result was that the BoSox found themselves putting a position player, Andruw Monasterio, on the mound to finish off their series against their arch-rival. It went about as well as you’d expect, with Monasterio surrendering five runs on three hits (two of them homers) and a pair of walks. The main source of entertainment in the ninth inning was the stunning slowness of Monasterio’s pitches; they were officially classified as sliders, but at…
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