The Red Sox have lost six of their last seven games, including a sweep at the hand's of the Nationals this weekend. After Sunday's loss manager Bobby Valentine, who was ejected in the bottom of the ninth inning, ripped the umpiring crew. "You have to talk to the hitters," he said. "The game is simple: Throw it over the plate, call it a strike; don't throw it over the plate, call it a ball. Simple. That's all anyone asks. I know it's been going on for 100 years, and I'm not the first one to say it, but this was a pretty lousy series." It wasn't solely the ninth inning that Valentine was concerned with; rather, it was an accumulation of calls throughout the series. "You've got guys busting their butts, battling their butts off and it's not right," he said. "Good umpires had a real bad series this series -- a real bad series. It went one way. There should be a review."