The Boston Red Sox, after sweeping the Yankees again in New York, beat Toronto... then crushed the Jays 16-4 behind Jon Lackey. Lackey pitched 6 innings to grab the win, and with that win the Sox are 2 games up on the Yankees in the East and are tied for the best record in baseball with the Philadelphia Phillies. I find this amazing, considering they started 2-10. The Sox have gone 36-16 since their abysmal start, and even more surprising is the fact that they have equivalent records at home and on the road, at 19-13. This is amazing because they started 0-7 away from Fenway, which means that they have gone on a 19-6 streak on the road. Anyway, back to the game. Adrian Gonzalez started the scoring with an RBI double, and the Sox went up 5-2 before the fifth inning. They scored seven runs, including a three-run shot by Jason Varitek, then David Ortiz capped the inning with a three-run big fly of his own to make it 12-2. The Sox never looked back after that, and I find it great that these guys can keep scoring runs over and over. I mean, this is the second time in three days that they've scored seven runs in an inning! That's pretty good, and the way A-Gone is knocking in runs? 58 RBI in 64 games. Wow. He's pretty amazing.
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Ortiz has moved his average all the way up to .325, with 16 homers.
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