Game 27: M's 2 Sox 3

Baseball is a weird game. The Sox can't manage to get anything going against Fister but got two runs early off of Felix today. Wakefield makes the pinch start for Buchholz and the old man looked fantastic giving up only 3 hits and a walk in 5 2/3. Jenks blows it in the 5th coming in with two outs to give up 1 hit and 3 walks before getting the third out. But Albers and Papelbon hold the line until Lowrie reaches third base on a triple Ichiro lost in the sun and with two outs, Carl Crawford delivers a rope up the middle to win the game.

What a game. Certainly losing 2 out of three wasn't what we had hoped for but to beat Felix to avoid the sweep was nice. I thought for sure after losing the first two, we were playing so poorly we didn't have a chance at beating the King. But that just goes to show you, baseball's a weird game.