Game 15: Jays 1 Sox 9

Sox bats stay alive and bury the Jays to take the series. Lowrie keeps up the hit streak with four more hits today including a home run. Most of his hits lately have seemed like seeing eye singles to me but today he was really driving the ball. The home run was to deep left field, into the Monster seats. Youkilis and Ellsbury added home runs as well. Jacoby has 4 home runs on the season now; I think I projected 8 for him all season.

Crawford update: Batting 7th (Drew led off), 1-5 with an RBI double. Nice to see the solid contact; hopefully he's turning it around. A friend brought my attention to this tid bit today:

2010 Crawford: 16.5% LD, 35.6% outside swing, 82.8% contact, 0.342 BABIP

2011 Crawford: 15.9% LD, 33.3% outside swing, 84.1% contact, 0.156 BABIP

One of those stats doesn't fit with the rest. I don't know that I've ever seen a batter's LD% higher than his BABIP before. Gonzalez had a rough day today with 3 Ks and Varitek was the lone 0-fer. As long as the pitchers keep pitching gems when he's catching though, I don't mind.

Matsuzaka got the win going 7 innings giving up 1 hit and 1 walk to 3 Ks and blanking the Jays. Wakefield gave up a pop up solo home run over the Monster in the ninth. Matsuzaka looked better today but I thought he was really helped by the aggressive swings by the Jays. He was still throwing the breaking balls all over the place but this time the batters chased them. Seems like if he had been facing a patient team the walk total would have been higher and the game may have been in jeopardy.

But that's neither here nor there. Sox start a road trip tomorrow in Oakland. Let's hope Lackey can make it 4 in a row.