Sweeping Up Interleague Play

We swept the Milwaukee Brewers over the weekend and regained sole possession of first place in the East. Tampa couldn't keep up with St. Louis and fell to second place and the Mets swept the Yanks as well. The Yankees are now in last place and are the only team in our division under .500.

David Ortiz looks like he is snapping out of his slump as he hit two home runs Sunday to help us to a 11-7 win. He went 3-4 with 4 rbi's and scored twice. Youk also hit one and so did Minny Manny (Pedroia). Beckett started off a little shaky allowing 2 first inning runs and he eventually gave up 4 home runs on the day, but he did strike out 9 in his 7 innings and picked up the win.

We swept the Saturday double header 5-3 and 7-6 over the Brewers as well. We almost blew the nightcap giving up 3 unearned runs in the 7th but in the bottom of the frame, Youk drove in Pedroia with the go ahead run. Timlin came in to get the save, his first of the year. The teams combined for 7 errors in the game. It looked like we were watching the Bad News Bears out there.

The early game we won 5-3 on the strong pitching performance of DiceK. He didn't give up an earned run and only walked 2. Paps came in to get the save and Papi hit a home run to give us an early lead.

Coming up, we have a four game set with Kansas City, then we will be off to the west coast for a 6 game set with Oakland and Seattle. It means the games won't be starting until 9 o'clock my time so I will have to try to get an afternoon nap in somewhere next week.

Bartolo Colon is set to make his Red Sox debut Wednesday against the Royals. He is 2-0 with a 0.64 ERA in three starts for the PawSox. In his last start on Thursday in Buffalo, he went six scoreless innings, giving up one hit and striking out four. I hope he does well, it will be nice to see him in the rotation at least until Schilling comes back.

With all the injuries we have had along with the slow start of Ortiz, I am glad we are in first coming up to the end of May. In fact, we have the best record in the American League. I would like to see the Yankees be double digits behind us by the end of the month. We all know, that somehow, someway, they will be there, hanging around at the end of the season. We just know it. The bigger the lead, the more comfortable I will be.

In other tidbits, Arod has apparently taped a congratulations to Manny and it will be played when Manny hits his 500th home run. What is the deal with Arod even being involved here? I can just see it, Manny hits his 500th, the Fenway crowd is going crazy, then a chorus of boos will fill the park when Arods purple lips start talking about good luck and hope you hit many more. It will ruin the moment. Why is he always getting involved with our big moments? Is he sorry he didn't become a Sox player back in 04 and this is his only way to feel part of the team? Remember when we were winning the world series and he had to interrupt the game and announce he wasn't going to stay with the Yankees? Of course, a couple weeks later, he changed his mind and stayed, but he still got himself on there during our world series. My message for Slappy would be to worry about his last place team and leave us alone. We don't need your congratulations, in fact we don't care to see you at all except when they show replays of Varitek giving you a catchers mitt sandwich or maybe that play you made in 04 when you slapped the ball like a little girl from Bronson Arroyo. Do you remember those? Now leave us alone.