Game 17: Sox 5 A's 3

I don't know how we won this game. Seemed like every inning the A's were threatening but every inning the Sox found some way to sneak their way out of it. The A's got 12 hits and 5 walks to the Sox 10 and 1 but the biggest difference was probably 1 HR for the A's, 3 for the Sox (Drew, Lowrie, and Youkilis).

Sox faced another lefty (they've now faced 9 LH starters and 8 RH starters by my count) and had mixed success. The curveball gave them a lot of trouble again and they struck out 12 times in the game. Lowrie and Youkilis were both hitting the ball hard. I'm going to stop the Crawford update; he's starting to turn it around and I've made my point. I may need to start a Varitek Update though. He has all of one hit in 23 at bats so far and looks like he can't catch up to the heat.