Me: A win!
Kim: What? I don’t understand.
Me: You see, when our team scores more runs than the other team, we call that a “win.”
Kim: Really? I’ve never seen that before.
Me: Much like the northern spotted owl, they are very rare. it’s an endangered species.

What a strange game. First, Julian Tavarez was the Sox’s starting pitcher. Second, he didn’t lose against Cy Young candidate Roy Halladay. However, the strangest play of the game was Alex Cora’s “Home Run.”

Cora hit a ball in the 7th that was about 10 feet from the wall in right field. Rios got twisted around on the play and didn’t catch the ball cleanly. To try to make up for the error, as the ball was falling out of his glove he tried to bare-hand it. I say “tried” because what he actually did was swat it into the seats for a go-ahead two run home run. Cora’s first of the season.

Timlin tried to screw things up again in the 8th, but PBR wouldn’t let him as he earned his 35th save.

I give the Sox bullpen a lot of shit. Tonight they put out a gutsy performance. Especially considering the emergency start they had to make as a result of Boomer Wells being traded right before gametime. So Tavarez, Bryan Corey, Delcarmen and PBR get a gold star for the day. Timlin, see me after class.

On the injury front it looks like Lester may have the worst injury yet. He was diagnosed with having enlarged lymph nodes, often a telltale sign of lymphoma. As Kim said, “I hope we don’t have to send him to the Jimmy Fund.” So do we all.