Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend the Red Sox v.s. the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. The Red Sox came out pounding, and played a complete game to pull out with an 8-2 victory. After dropping the first two games of the series, I was extremely happy to see them come out with a win.
Jon Lester was on the mound for the good guys, and threw a career high 12 strikeouts, against a normally potent Jays offense. Leading the charge along with Lester was Kevin Youkilis, who belted 2 Home Runs, Jason Bay, who knocked one out as well, and Dustin Pedroia, who hit only his second dinger of the year, but the 3-run shot proved to be all the Red Sox needed in order to secure the win.
All in all it was a great game and I was glad my Sox came through with me in attendance.
Yesterday afternoon Jacoby Ellsbury’s 22-game hitting streak came to an end. Jacoby was on fire, batting a whopping .340 while on his streak. During that time he managed to tag 6 doubles, one triple, 4 RBI’s, 16 runs, 5 walks and 11 stolen bases. Congratulations on a job well done!
Here’s to him starting up another one tonight, against those pesky Canadians, the Toronto Blue Jays. Thanks Jacoby!
The Red Sox taught the current division leader, the Toronto Blue Jays, a lesson this week. By sweeping the Jays out of town in rather dominant fashion, the Sox moved within half a game of first place. I guess we showed the high flying Jays who’s the boss?
The Jays threw 3 inexperienced starters to the mound, and the Red Sox took advantage of the young hurlers, tagging each for 2, 8 and 5 runs respectively. On the home side, all three Red Sox starters (Wakefield, Penny & Lester) dominated the best hitting team in baseball at Fenway this past week. Way to go guys!
The Red Sox will open up the first series of Inter-League play at home this weekend, as the New York Mets stroll into town for a classic re-match of the the 1986 World Series. At least we don’t have Buckner at first. Send’em packing boys!
