Sox: 8 Jays: 2
I don't have any illusions that the Sox or anyone connected to them reads this blog. That said, it was nice to have my wish for more Sox runs granted. On top of that, a great outing for Jon Lester, who threw six innings, allowing one run, and set a new personal best with 12 Ks. The one run came in the first inning and Lester blanked 'em the rest of the way. Next step for Lester is to follow today's performance up with another solid start the next time he toes the rubber. Stringing quality starts together is key to getting back on track. Masterson pitched the seventh and eighth in relief of Lester and allowed an Alex Rios homer in the eighth. Ramon Ramirez pitched a scoreless ninth, giving Lester his fourth win of the season.
Now for the offense, which seemed to rise like a phoenix from the ashes in this series finale. Youk started things off in the first inning with a long ball to center. The next three runs came after Papi (yes, Papi!) dusted off the ol' stick with a double to lead off the fourth. Tek walked and Jake, hitting out of the 8-hole today in a lineup shakeup, sac-bunted the runners along to second and third. Green whiffed and up to the plate strode Pedey and whaddaya know? He went yard for the first time since his very first at-bat of the season on Opening Day, when he sent one into the Monster seats off James Shields. This time, the victim of Pedey Power was Jays lefty Ricky Romero. In the fifth, Youk and Bay walked and Romero was lifted for Scott Richmond. Lowell promptly doubled to drive in Youk for the fifth Sox run. The Jays pen quiets the Sox down until the eighth, when Green led off with a double, Pedey bunted him over to third and Drew sac-flied Green home. Youk and Bay lined back-to-back homers into the Jays' bullpen to give the Sox an 8-1 lead. Nice to see the team alter their strategy a little to manufacture runs in this game. We don't see very many sac bunts by the Sox and today they both resulted in runs scored.
After tomorrow's off day, the Sox finish off this road trip with a three-gamer in Detroit. Dice-K takes the hill on Tuesday and I sure hope Tek is behind the dish for that one.
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!! WAY TO SCORE SOME RUNS!!!!!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
For Whatever It's Worth
On this road trip, with the single exception of game 1 of the Twins series, the Sox have been unable to score more than 3 runs in a game. They have a DH that doesn't H and his struggles at the plate are spreading to the entire team. Hitting may be contagious, but I think lack of hitting is even more so. When a pitcher surrenders a lead, the bats have already thrown in the towel, making the games excruciatingly depressing to watch. The Evil Empire has taken over first place and if the Sox bats don't crawl out of their hole tomorrow, the Jays will have caught up to them and third place may not be far behind. If the Rays heat up, the Sox could even be looking at fourth if they continue their woeful play on the road. The team's defense is scuffling just as badly as their offense with the Shortstop Horror Show, not to mention the Dice-Kottaras debacle this past week. Starting pitching is hit or miss and even some of the first-class bullpen is showing signs of wear. The only bright spots on the team right now are Tek's newfound power, Bard's five-strikeout performance, and the improved pitching of Beckett and Penny. Wake is starting to come back to earth, as are J-Bay and Youk. Big Papi's mega-slump is just heartbreaking. Something needs to be done if this team is to play after the beginning of October. A big bat is a must, but the whole team needs to step it up and play at least .500 ball away from Fenway. Dice-K and Lester need to give the team some quality starts without the meltdown innings. It's almost June and it's getting too late to say "it's early." So, please, boys, just play better ball, will ya?
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!! SCORE SOME MORE DOGGONE RUNS!!!!!
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!! SCORE SOME MORE DOGGONE RUNS!!!!!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Lester Zapped, Offense Sapped
Sox: 2 Twins: 5
What is it about Lester and the fifth inning? After shutting the Minny dome-dwellers out through the first four, the fifth is once again his Waterloo. That is, he flushed a Sox win down the loo with a five-run fifth on four hits and a walk. One of those hits happened to be a three-run dinger by Morneau. These nuclear innings are becoming all-too-frequent with Lester this season. Are all the innings he pitched last year catching up with him? Is he fatiguing by the fifth inning and, consequently, losing command? He had a great start last time out against Toronto, but I don't remember any time this season where he has put two good starts in a row. That's troublesome for a #2 starter.
The loss can't be pinned solely on Lester, however. The offense came up short and squandered too many scoring opportunities, putting up a paltry two runs and letting Twins starter Nick Blackburn off the hook inning after inning. They managed to score a run in the 7th, but they have to score runs more consistently on the road. It was good to see Papi get the double in his first at-bat out of the six-hole, though.
Tomorrow, Dice-K makes his second post-DL start. Let's hope the defense backs him up better this time around (no more botched double plays!).
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!!
What is it about Lester and the fifth inning? After shutting the Minny dome-dwellers out through the first four, the fifth is once again his Waterloo. That is, he flushed a Sox win down the loo with a five-run fifth on four hits and a walk. One of those hits happened to be a three-run dinger by Morneau. These nuclear innings are becoming all-too-frequent with Lester this season. Are all the innings he pitched last year catching up with him? Is he fatiguing by the fifth inning and, consequently, losing command? He had a great start last time out against Toronto, but I don't remember any time this season where he has put two good starts in a row. That's troublesome for a #2 starter.
The loss can't be pinned solely on Lester, however. The offense came up short and squandered too many scoring opportunities, putting up a paltry two runs and letting Twins starter Nick Blackburn off the hook inning after inning. They managed to score a run in the 7th, but they have to score runs more consistently on the road. It was good to see Papi get the double in his first at-bat out of the six-hole, though.
Tomorrow, Dice-K makes his second post-DL start. Let's hope the defense backs him up better this time around (no more botched double plays!).
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!!
Monday, May 25, 2009
DH-ing Up A Storm
Sox: 6 Twins: 5
As much as I wish I could say it was Papi I was referring to in the title of this blog, it was Mikey Lowell who was punishing the ball this afternoon in Minny. Lowell, in the DH spot to give him a "half day" of rest and to rest the still slumping Papi, did not rest at the plate, getting four knocks today out of the five hole. Penny, who was feeling a little under the weather, put together a decent outing, allowing three runs over five and a third innings, earning his fifth W as a Red Sox. He outlasted Liriano, who was chased after giving up five runs in just four innings, thanks to an offense that produced timely hits over a two inning span beginning in the third.
Jake extended his hitting streak to 20 games with an infield hit in the third, went 2 for 5 today and Pedey went 3 for 5. Youk and Bay each had two hits and two RBI. We know what Lowell did. Rocco Baldelli had two hits of his own, but had to leave the game because he, too, was feeling not quite right. Surprisingly, RightyTek, who has been tearing it up so far this season, went hitless this afternoon, as did Lugo. The sixth run of the game was a solo shot by Jeff Bailey, his third long ball of the season. Say what you want about Bailey's average (and it's all justified), but the guy can knock one out every now and then.
Tomorrow, Jon Lester looks to build off his strong start last week against Toronto when he faces Nick Blackburn. The question of where Papi will hit in the lineup will most likely be answered, but the issue of who should get the bulk of the starts at short until Lowrie (who played a little T-ball today) returns still remains. Lugo, while he did not make an error today, went 0 for 4 and I can't remember when his last hit was. Green, who is almost as scary in the field as Lugo, is at least getting some consistent hits. Lugo's got the big, gigantic salary, but Green is the better performer of the two overall, even considering the Seattle fiasco.
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!!!
As much as I wish I could say it was Papi I was referring to in the title of this blog, it was Mikey Lowell who was punishing the ball this afternoon in Minny. Lowell, in the DH spot to give him a "half day" of rest and to rest the still slumping Papi, did not rest at the plate, getting four knocks today out of the five hole. Penny, who was feeling a little under the weather, put together a decent outing, allowing three runs over five and a third innings, earning his fifth W as a Red Sox. He outlasted Liriano, who was chased after giving up five runs in just four innings, thanks to an offense that produced timely hits over a two inning span beginning in the third.
Jake extended his hitting streak to 20 games with an infield hit in the third, went 2 for 5 today and Pedey went 3 for 5. Youk and Bay each had two hits and two RBI. We know what Lowell did. Rocco Baldelli had two hits of his own, but had to leave the game because he, too, was feeling not quite right. Surprisingly, RightyTek, who has been tearing it up so far this season, went hitless this afternoon, as did Lugo. The sixth run of the game was a solo shot by Jeff Bailey, his third long ball of the season. Say what you want about Bailey's average (and it's all justified), but the guy can knock one out every now and then.
Tomorrow, Jon Lester looks to build off his strong start last week against Toronto when he faces Nick Blackburn. The question of where Papi will hit in the lineup will most likely be answered, but the issue of who should get the bulk of the starts at short until Lowrie (who played a little T-ball today) returns still remains. Lugo, while he did not make an error today, went 0 for 4 and I can't remember when his last hit was. Green, who is almost as scary in the field as Lugo, is at least getting some consistent hits. Lugo's got the big, gigantic salary, but Green is the better performer of the two overall, even considering the Seattle fiasco.
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!!!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
All's Well That Ends Well
Sox: 12 Mets: 5
In a series that had two home run calls reviewed (and neither going in favor of the home team), a pitcher throwing a phantom ball plateward, Eck's vocabulary venturing into the netherworld, and the Sox losing the first two games, they really needed a game like the one that took place today. With Dwight Evans pinch hitting for Eck, who's moonlighting for TBS, the Sox gave Wake his team-leading sixth win of the year in a 12-5 rout of the denizens of Citi Field. Yes, the same Citi Field where last week someone got their hand stuck in the toilet trying to retrieve a gold tooth. Oh, what the recession will make one do! Now, thanks to losses by the Yanks and the Jays, our Fenway friends are sitting in first place in the AL Beast!
Wake's outing was not one of his best, but, thanks to his stick-wielding teammates, it was enough to win. He gave up five runs in six innings. Due to a rain (or was it hail?) delay in the bottom of the first, he had a good 45 minutes between his first two innings of work. His most troublesome inning was the third, when he gave up three runs, erasing the lead the Sox had given him via Lowell's 3-run blast in the second. Added to the run the Mets scored in the second inning on a solo homer by Ramon Castro, this gave the visitors the lead. Wake gave up a fifth Mets run in the fifth inning, but came out to pitch a clean sixth after the Sox gave him back the lead in the bottom of the fifth.
The Sox bats, who had been dormant for the first two games of the series, broke out today, starting with the Lowell tater in the second. The fifth inning started with Youk knocking one out of the park just a hair away from the Fisk pole on the Monster. Youk thought he had himself a dong, but the umps ruled it foul. After Tito came out of the dugout and argued, the umps decided to go to the review room for the second time in 24 hours. The first time was last night, when an Omir Santos fly was ruled a dinger and not, as it was initially called, a double, after bouncing off the red rim of the Monster. That call meant a blown save for Pap and a stinging loss for the Sox. The call on Youk's questionable homer didn't go any better for the Boston squad. It was ruled a foul ball and Youk, after fouling off a few more pitches, ended the at-bat by flying out to right. To me, the replay they showed on NESN made it look like the ball was just a teeny tiny bit to the right of the pole and fair, but the umps had the final call.
Two batters after the home run that wasn't, JD Drew, he of the four-hit afternoon, and Mikey Lowell singled. George Kottaras, who hit a ground-rule double in his first at-bat, followed it up with another double, this time with a ribbie thrown in. Nick Green followed the backstop's feat up with a hit that I guess would be called a single: Lowell scored and Nick Green found himself in no man's land between first and second, staying in the run-down long enough to score Kottaras and give the lead back to the Sox. The ball changed hands so many times on that play that it was ruled a 9-3-6-4-5-3. Translation: Right field to first baseman to shortstop to second baseman to third baseman back to first.
The sixth inning saw Mets reliever Ken Takahashi (not to be confused with Sox reliever Takashi Saito) pitch a phantom ball to the plate when he lost his grip on the ball as he was getting ready to throw it. The "real" ball ended up a few feet away from the mound to the pitcher's right. It was ruled a balk and Pedey, who reached first on a walk, was awarded second. After Papi, who was at bat during this bizarre occurrence, struck out, Youk walked and Bay singled, briging Pedey home. JD followed up with a double that plated Youk and gave the Sox a three-run advantage. The following inning saw Green get his second hit, Jake draw a walk and Pedey singling Green home before Youk went deep again. For real this time and scoring three times as many runs as the fifth inning long foul would have had it stayed fair. It was his way of saying "Take that, umps!" The score after that big fly: 12-5 and that's where it stayed when Takashi Saito recorded the final out of the ninth.
Tomorrow night, back to the AL and back on the road. It feels like they just got to Fenway and now they have to leave again! Penny pitches against Liriano in Minnesota. Will Papi remain in the 3-hole after yet another quiet day at the plate? We shall see...
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!!
In a series that had two home run calls reviewed (and neither going in favor of the home team), a pitcher throwing a phantom ball plateward, Eck's vocabulary venturing into the netherworld, and the Sox losing the first two games, they really needed a game like the one that took place today. With Dwight Evans pinch hitting for Eck, who's moonlighting for TBS, the Sox gave Wake his team-leading sixth win of the year in a 12-5 rout of the denizens of Citi Field. Yes, the same Citi Field where last week someone got their hand stuck in the toilet trying to retrieve a gold tooth. Oh, what the recession will make one do! Now, thanks to losses by the Yanks and the Jays, our Fenway friends are sitting in first place in the AL Beast!
Wake's outing was not one of his best, but, thanks to his stick-wielding teammates, it was enough to win. He gave up five runs in six innings. Due to a rain (or was it hail?) delay in the bottom of the first, he had a good 45 minutes between his first two innings of work. His most troublesome inning was the third, when he gave up three runs, erasing the lead the Sox had given him via Lowell's 3-run blast in the second. Added to the run the Mets scored in the second inning on a solo homer by Ramon Castro, this gave the visitors the lead. Wake gave up a fifth Mets run in the fifth inning, but came out to pitch a clean sixth after the Sox gave him back the lead in the bottom of the fifth.
The Sox bats, who had been dormant for the first two games of the series, broke out today, starting with the Lowell tater in the second. The fifth inning started with Youk knocking one out of the park just a hair away from the Fisk pole on the Monster. Youk thought he had himself a dong, but the umps ruled it foul. After Tito came out of the dugout and argued, the umps decided to go to the review room for the second time in 24 hours. The first time was last night, when an Omir Santos fly was ruled a dinger and not, as it was initially called, a double, after bouncing off the red rim of the Monster. That call meant a blown save for Pap and a stinging loss for the Sox. The call on Youk's questionable homer didn't go any better for the Boston squad. It was ruled a foul ball and Youk, after fouling off a few more pitches, ended the at-bat by flying out to right. To me, the replay they showed on NESN made it look like the ball was just a teeny tiny bit to the right of the pole and fair, but the umps had the final call.
Two batters after the home run that wasn't, JD Drew, he of the four-hit afternoon, and Mikey Lowell singled. George Kottaras, who hit a ground-rule double in his first at-bat, followed it up with another double, this time with a ribbie thrown in. Nick Green followed the backstop's feat up with a hit that I guess would be called a single: Lowell scored and Nick Green found himself in no man's land between first and second, staying in the run-down long enough to score Kottaras and give the lead back to the Sox. The ball changed hands so many times on that play that it was ruled a 9-3-6-4-5-3. Translation: Right field to first baseman to shortstop to second baseman to third baseman back to first.
The sixth inning saw Mets reliever Ken Takahashi (not to be confused with Sox reliever Takashi Saito) pitch a phantom ball to the plate when he lost his grip on the ball as he was getting ready to throw it. The "real" ball ended up a few feet away from the mound to the pitcher's right. It was ruled a balk and Pedey, who reached first on a walk, was awarded second. After Papi, who was at bat during this bizarre occurrence, struck out, Youk walked and Bay singled, briging Pedey home. JD followed up with a double that plated Youk and gave the Sox a three-run advantage. The following inning saw Green get his second hit, Jake draw a walk and Pedey singling Green home before Youk went deep again. For real this time and scoring three times as many runs as the fifth inning long foul would have had it stayed fair. It was his way of saying "Take that, umps!" The score after that big fly: 12-5 and that's where it stayed when Takashi Saito recorded the final out of the ninth.
Tomorrow night, back to the AL and back on the road. It feels like they just got to Fenway and now they have to leave again! Penny pitches against Liriano in Minnesota. Will Papi remain in the 3-hole after yet another quiet day at the plate? We shall see...
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!!
Friday, May 22, 2009
Sox Lose. Eck Swears.
Sox: 3 Mets: 5
If the Sox had to lose tonight, it might as well be to one of the best pitchers in the game. Hey, at least they scored some runs off of him. Granted, not all of them were earned, but it was great to see Tek take him deep in the second. Tek drove Santana and the Mets crazy the better part of the game, with the homer and then two liners that were mishandled by the Mets' second-string shortstop. One of those two errors caused two runs to score, but since it was ruled an error, Tek got credit for only one RBI.
Dice-K, while he took the loss, didn't do all that bad in his first post-DL start. He sailed through the first three, with the only blemish being a homer by Gary Sheffield in the second. In the fourth inning, after allowing a one-out double and then a walk and an RBI single to score the Mets' second run, his defense burned him when Lugo couldn't turn a double play on a ball hit to Pedey. Murphy's law of baseball says that when an inning-ending double play is botched, you will pay dearly and they paid to the tune of two more runs. Dice-K also got burned by the home plate ump when the 1-2 pitch he threw to Santos was ruled a ball, even though the pitch tracker showed it was clearly a strike. Santos went on to single and then Ramon Ramirez (no, not our ace reliever) also singled. Had that critical double play been turned, Dice would have been out of the fourth only having allowed one more Mets run instead of three. Had the ump correctly called that third strike on Santos, Dice-K would have also been out of that inning with only one run.
Now for the Eck swearing part. It's the bottom of the fifth with two outs and no one on, thanks to Papi grounding into a double play that was not flubbed. Santana drills Youk in the hand and words are exchanged between the pitcher and batter as Youk takes his base. Youk mouths something that Eck interprets out loud as "sh!t". Oops! Tsk tsk, Eck! The FCC's gonna slap ya for that one. Back to Youk and Santana: fortunately the umps intervened and no fracas took place.
Tomorrow night, Beckett faces Mike Pelfrey. The Sox need to win these next two games, as a road trip which includes two domes starts Monday. Domes, like the west coast, have not been kind to the Sox. First comes the "Homerdome" in Minnesota, then the Rogers Center in Toronto. The Sox would have to be very lucky to miss Halladay again. After Toronto, they head to Comerica in Detroit, which is, thankfully, not a dome.
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!
If the Sox had to lose tonight, it might as well be to one of the best pitchers in the game. Hey, at least they scored some runs off of him. Granted, not all of them were earned, but it was great to see Tek take him deep in the second. Tek drove Santana and the Mets crazy the better part of the game, with the homer and then two liners that were mishandled by the Mets' second-string shortstop. One of those two errors caused two runs to score, but since it was ruled an error, Tek got credit for only one RBI.
Dice-K, while he took the loss, didn't do all that bad in his first post-DL start. He sailed through the first three, with the only blemish being a homer by Gary Sheffield in the second. In the fourth inning, after allowing a one-out double and then a walk and an RBI single to score the Mets' second run, his defense burned him when Lugo couldn't turn a double play on a ball hit to Pedey. Murphy's law of baseball says that when an inning-ending double play is botched, you will pay dearly and they paid to the tune of two more runs. Dice-K also got burned by the home plate ump when the 1-2 pitch he threw to Santos was ruled a ball, even though the pitch tracker showed it was clearly a strike. Santos went on to single and then Ramon Ramirez (no, not our ace reliever) also singled. Had that critical double play been turned, Dice would have been out of the fourth only having allowed one more Mets run instead of three. Had the ump correctly called that third strike on Santos, Dice-K would have also been out of that inning with only one run.
Now for the Eck swearing part. It's the bottom of the fifth with two outs and no one on, thanks to Papi grounding into a double play that was not flubbed. Santana drills Youk in the hand and words are exchanged between the pitcher and batter as Youk takes his base. Youk mouths something that Eck interprets out loud as "sh!t". Oops! Tsk tsk, Eck! The FCC's gonna slap ya for that one. Back to Youk and Santana: fortunately the umps intervened and no fracas took place.
Tomorrow night, Beckett faces Mike Pelfrey. The Sox need to win these next two games, as a road trip which includes two domes starts Monday. Domes, like the west coast, have not been kind to the Sox. First comes the "Homerdome" in Minnesota, then the Rogers Center in Toronto. The Sox would have to be very lucky to miss Halladay again. After Toronto, they head to Comerica in Detroit, which is, thankfully, not a dome.
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Sweep Success!
Sox: 5 Broomed Jays: 1
There's nothing like sweeping the team you're looking up at in the standings and that's just what the Sox did tonight. The Jays came cruising into Fenway riding high with a 3 1/2 game lead over the Red Sox. Three days and three losses later, the lead has been whittled to 1/2 game as Sox pitching limited the first place team from up north to five runs over the entire series. It's a very good sign from a beleaguered rotation that they could stifle a hot, league-leading offense like Wake, Penny, and Lester were able to do this week.
Lester rebounded from his back-to-back implosions and held the Jays to just one run, that was surrendered by Ramon Ramirez after he [Lester] left the mound. He worked his way in and out of jams, the "out" part being key, with the help of timely pitches and excellent defense behind him. His first few innings were a trifle tentative, but he really got in a groove in the fifth and sixth, his pitch count in the single digits for those two frames. The next step for him is following this outing up with another solid performance in his next start.
At the dish, the Sox had some early success off Jays rookie Robert Ray, including a two-run Bay dinger that bounced off the top of the wall in right-center and into the pen. It's clear that Bay likes to save his biggest hits for when guys are on base; he just set a Red Sox team record for most consecutive multi-run homers. The Sox had better be prepared to shell out major dough for this guy, as his stock is skyrocketing with every big clutch hit he makes. At 30, he's in his prime and he's thriving in the high-intensity, pennant-chasing Boston baseball atmosphere. He has a highly professional work ethic and is an ideal player for this team.
Jake continued his hitting streak at his first at-bat with a double down the first base line. He scored on two straight ground-outs by Pedey and Papi. Speaking of Papi, no, he did not hit another one out tonight, but he got himself a single in the fifth and two of the outs he made were productive, moving runners along. Youk followed up his three-hit welcome back night last night with an RBI single in the third, plating Pedey, who doubled off the wall. Pedey also had a single in the fifth. Drew also had a single on the night. The 7-9 batters, Lowell, Tek and Lugo, went hitless.
Tomorrow, the Mets are in town for a little interleague play. The pitching match-up is an interesting one: a returning-from-the-DL Dice-K goes head to head with Mets ace Johan Santana. Keep rolling, Boston boys!
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!! CONGRATS ON THE SWEEP!!!
There's nothing like sweeping the team you're looking up at in the standings and that's just what the Sox did tonight. The Jays came cruising into Fenway riding high with a 3 1/2 game lead over the Red Sox. Three days and three losses later, the lead has been whittled to 1/2 game as Sox pitching limited the first place team from up north to five runs over the entire series. It's a very good sign from a beleaguered rotation that they could stifle a hot, league-leading offense like Wake, Penny, and Lester were able to do this week.
Lester rebounded from his back-to-back implosions and held the Jays to just one run, that was surrendered by Ramon Ramirez after he [Lester] left the mound. He worked his way in and out of jams, the "out" part being key, with the help of timely pitches and excellent defense behind him. His first few innings were a trifle tentative, but he really got in a groove in the fifth and sixth, his pitch count in the single digits for those two frames. The next step for him is following this outing up with another solid performance in his next start.
At the dish, the Sox had some early success off Jays rookie Robert Ray, including a two-run Bay dinger that bounced off the top of the wall in right-center and into the pen. It's clear that Bay likes to save his biggest hits for when guys are on base; he just set a Red Sox team record for most consecutive multi-run homers. The Sox had better be prepared to shell out major dough for this guy, as his stock is skyrocketing with every big clutch hit he makes. At 30, he's in his prime and he's thriving in the high-intensity, pennant-chasing Boston baseball atmosphere. He has a highly professional work ethic and is an ideal player for this team.
Jake continued his hitting streak at his first at-bat with a double down the first base line. He scored on two straight ground-outs by Pedey and Papi. Speaking of Papi, no, he did not hit another one out tonight, but he got himself a single in the fifth and two of the outs he made were productive, moving runners along. Youk followed up his three-hit welcome back night last night with an RBI single in the third, plating Pedey, who doubled off the wall. Pedey also had a single in the fifth. Drew also had a single on the night. The 7-9 batters, Lowell, Tek and Lugo, went hitless.
Tomorrow, the Mets are in town for a little interleague play. The pitching match-up is an interesting one: a returning-from-the-DL Dice-K goes head to head with Mets ace Johan Santana. Keep rolling, Boston boys!
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!! CONGRATS ON THE SWEEP!!!
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