...and the Dodgers join the Diamondbacks on the receiving end. The Sox pulled off back-to-back sweeps of two NL West teams and pull into a tie for second place in the division with the Tampa Bay Rays. The six-game winning streak is the longest so far this season and it saw the Sox return to dominance at Fenway. While they'd been having trouble closing out the weaker AL teams, beating up on the NL has come a lot more easily to them. The Sox have, in recent years, enjoyed success in interleague play and this year they're taking advantage of it to make up ground in the division while the Rays, and to a lesser extent, the Yankees, have faltered.
Key to the Sox' winning streak and 8-1 homestand is the resurgence of Pedey's bat and Papi breaking out of the slump he was on the last road trip. Nava gave the team a spark with his first-pitch-in-the-big-show grand slam, among other key hits. The pitching has kept the Sox in the ballgame, even if it wasn't necessarily dominant. The team is performing as a team, rather than the collection of individuals that scuffled along in April.
After an off-day tomorrow, the Sox leave the friendly confines and venture back out on the road, first to Coors Field in Colorado-- the same Coors Field where they celebrated their World Series victory on a cool October night in 2007. It might be a little more challenging this time out because on Wednesday night they face the buzzsaw known as Ubaldo Jimenez. Ubaldo of the 13-1 record and the microscopic ERA. After Colorado, they play a set in San Francisco before heading home to face the Rays.
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!! CONGRATS ON BACK-TO-BACK SWEEPS!!!!
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