What’s stranger than a sweep in Toronto? Where do we start? Well, for one, I’m talking about the Sox sweeping the Jays, not the other way around. Buchholz beat Halladay (who only lasted five innings). Big Papi went deep twice. So did Nancy (who hit his on consecutive ABs). Brett Cecil pulled a Benny Agbayani into his own dugout. And Beckett looked like the reincarnated John Smoltz. If I was still in elementary school I’d say this was “opposite week.”

Plus the first game of the series, the one where Beckett allowed seven ER and the pen allowed another two, pretty much broke my whole “pick two” theory. I guess I shouldn’t quit my day job to become the next Bill James quite yet.

So the Sox enter another showdown series with the MFY up one game in the Wild Card and down, carry the two, six and a half in the East. As Allan at Joy of Sox pointed out, it’s a good thing we all didn’t jump off a bridge after the Texas series. However, if they take another pounding from the MFY this weekend, there might be a few 911 calls from above the Charles.