The Sox may have lost on Sunday, but Dirty Watah was in full party mode. The travesty that is interleague play is over for another 11 months. The Sox may have won five of the six interleague series they played, good for an 11-7 record, but I’m a baseball purist. I don’t like instant replay and I hate interleague play. I’m sorry Natinals, I know that’s the only way you’ll ever come close to selling out a home baseball game, but I just can’t condone AL pitchers hitting or Big Papi playing first base.

On Friday, Josh Beckett was a disappointment. After throwing a complete game shutout in his previous start against the Braves, Beckett could only muster seven innings of shutout baseball against them this time. And this time he gave up six hits! Six! In the CG he only allowed five. You’re slipping, Beckett…

Although it makes me a hypocrite when I then praise Wakefield for his six shutout innings on Saturday. Wakefield pitched fantastic (and by fantastic I mean six shutout innings), and old friend Javier Vazquez did too. You may remember Vazquez from such postseason games as “2004 ALCS Game 3″ and more importantly “2004 ALCS Game 7.” Sadly no first pitch grand slams this time. But between Wake, Oki and Paps it was enough for Wake’s second career 1-0 victory. I can remember a couple of 1-0 losses that Timmeh had suffered, but you had to go all the way back to 1995 to find another 1-0 victory. Maybe he can regress back to the mean and get a couple more 1-0 wins before the end of the season.

Sadly the Sox couldn’t close out the sweep…again. The Sox have now had the opportunity to sweep in four of their last five series and couldn’t finish the job. When Chipper Jones hit a HR in the first off of Penny, I should have known the game was over. After all, one starter in each of the first two games of the series didn’t allow a run, so why should the last game be any different? Unfortunately the shutout pitcher on Sunday was Atlanta’s Tommy Hanson. If only Chip Caray could stop turning every Atlanta pitcher into the second coming of Cy Young, I might be able to listen to TBS games with sound.

But at least we didn’t lose two of three to the Natinals!