With time growing short on the 2009 baseball season, Boston pulled into Tampa Bay to try and take out the Tampa Bay Naughty Fish, thus clarifying the playoff picture a bit. They took one step closer tonight with an 8-4 win, Jon Lester pitching 6 fine innings while his mates stomped poor Andy Sonnanstine for 5 runs over four innings. New friend Billy Wagner pitched another scoreless inning, and when the Okey Doke gave up a couple of counters to tighten the score a tad, the Lord of The Dance came in to lock down a rare 2 inning save.
Jason Bay, JD Drew, and Kevin Youkilis homered, and Jacoby Ellsbury chipped in with a triple and two tremendous catches in center field. Boston ends the day 3 1/2 games in front of the Rangers and 6 full games ahead of the Rays for the wild card slot.
Wahoo! Very cool beans. :-)
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