Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed

OK, show of hands who thought the Red Sox were going to get 3 homers out of Jed Lowrie ALL YEAR!I sure as hell didn't!I don't know how long this will last but having Lowrie hitting means that Marco Scutaro will be giving the Red Sox... wait for it... DEPTH!Of course today started off pretty badly with a leadoff homer by old friend Coco Crisp. And when the A's loaded the bases in the 6th, I

The Red Sox are Eric Liddell

The Red Sox are no longer the worst team in baseball. Today's win against the Blue Jays (with Dice-K dealing and Lowrie continuing to go nuts at the plate) put the Red Sox at 5-10.The Mets are 5-11 as are the Astros. So at least until tomorrow, the Sox are no longer at the bottom.Now the metaphor that people like to say about the baseball season is "It is not a sprint, it is a marathon." But

Welcome home Rich Hill

Boston native Rich Hill made his Red Sox debut today and it looked like a true mop up roll. They had blown a 4-2 lead and the newly acquired lefty finished up the 7th inning facing one batter.Naturally he got the win.Now people who hate the win stat will say "Was throwing to that one batter worth a win while David Price and CC Sabathia threw brilliantly yesterday and neither got a win?"And I

Nothing wrong with winning...

The Red Sox shouldn't have gone into extra innings today... and once against a good Dice-K outing was spoiled by one bad inning.And the Red Sox gained no ground because despite another lousy outing by Javy Vazquez (there's NO WAY the Yankees can pitch him in a playoff game, can they?) and a subpar outing by David Price... the Yankees and Rays both won.In other words they needed extra inning