First, this whole bloody/painted sock thing really needs to stop. But you’ve got to love Kevin Millar’s take on the situation: he painted his sanitary sock red before going out for stretching last night. Sometimes I really miss that guy. Of course, he then rips three fastballs foul, Ks on a changeup, and suddenly I don’t miss him so much.

Speaking of people who can only hit the fastball, welcome back Wily-Mo! Hitting an 8th inning grand-slam to take the lead certainly gets you back in the good graces of Red Sox Nation. Chris Ray apparently didn’t read the scouting report, because this is what he said about the grand-slam:

I tried to go inside and didn’t go inside far enough, and he was just sitting on a fastball.

I’ll give you some free advice Chris, Wily-Mo is ALWAYS sitting on a fastball. He doesn’t know how to sit on anything else.

Beckett looked really good again, and became the first pitcher to get five wins this season. This new Josh “I can throw the changeup for strikes” Beckett is much more enjoyable to watch than the Josh “see if you can hit this fastball” Beckett. How good is he right now? Well, let’s take a look at the fun-but-completely-useless-statistics folder and see what we can find. Ah! Here you go: