Cash Makes a Splash!

Sox: 5 Snakes: 0

Wake took the bite out of the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight, holding them to two hits in his 7 shutout innings. The Big Unit did a pretty good job himself, but Brandon Moss was his bugaboo as he drove in the two runs the Sox would score off the legendary hurler. Mossy drove in those 2 RBI without the benefit of a hit, but two highly productive outs.

Coco gave the Snakes pitching staff some "double trouble", scoring not one, not two, but THREE doubles and each inning when Coco doubled, the Sox scored. It was Wake's knuckle catcher Cash who was the biggest story of the game. First, he's intentionally walked in the 6th so that The Unit could induce a double play off the bat of Mossy (who hits a sac fly with the bases loaded to grab his second ribbie of the night). Later, in the 8th, an inning that has been magic for the Sox the past two nights, Cashy escorts a hanging slider over the monster and into the parking lot across the street for a 3-run sayonara. Sox on top 5 to nada! Hansen comes in to finish it off and gets himself into a bases-loaded pickle and it's Pap to the Rescue! The recent music video sensation of Fenway Park (whose partner in crime mowed the D-Backs down in order in the 8th) punched out the last batter to give the Sox the series victory.

Next up: Dice-K looks to bounce back from last Saturday's horror show when he takes the mound in Houston. The Sox are back on the road and face the 'Stros, the Rays, and the Yanks.

LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!