The Red Sox are losing to the Twins, I’m shocked. Instead I thought I’d talk about the Red Sox game I watched last night. That would be the Los Angeles Red Sox vs the San Diego Red Sox (or Red Sox Nation Southwest vs. Red Sox Nation Southerwest).

This is one of those games ESPN should have on their “instant classics” TODAY. It had everything: offense, defense, squanders. Oh, and a home run or two.

First, a quick list of all of the former Red Sox who appeared in this game:

• Alan Embree
• Cla Meredith
• Rudy Seanez
• Todd Walker
• Dave Roberts
• Josh Bard
• Mark Bellhorn
• Nomah (This blog is called Dirty Watah after all)

As a Sox fan this game had some poetic justice, because every player who sucked on the Sox, sucked in this game (except for Meredith). When Embree entered the game in the bottom of the 6th and the game tied 4-4, I fully expected that there would not be a tie at the end of the inning. He really did his best too, loading the bases with no outs, but Cla Meredith was able to work out of the jam.

But the real fun came in the bottom of the ninth with the LA Red Sox down 9-5. Yes, that’s four runs. The poets of the baseball world, such as Peter Gammons and in this case Eric Neel, can probably write words that will do this inning justice. I can’t. So instead, I’m just going let a scorecard do the talking:

Yeah, that’s back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs to tie the game. The last time four players hit home runs in succession was 1964. This is the type of thing you’d expect from the 2004 Red Sox, so I guess it’s fitting that about half of that team was playing in this game.

To make sure you couldn’t fall asleep, the San Diego Sox got a two-out run in the top of the 10th. But our old friend Rudy Seanez entered the game for San Diego in the bottom of the 10th. He led off by walking Kenny Lofton, and followed that by grooving one of his famous straight-as-an-arrow fastballs to Nomah on a 3-1 count. No matter what you say about Nomah, he can hit the fastball. And soon Dodger Stadium was going crazy as the ball travelled into the left field pavilion seats.

What is the moral of this story? If you are a San Diego fan, we know your pain. But if you want to watch your Red Sox in a pennant race this year, I highly recommend the NL West. You won’t be disappointed.