Game 28: Halos 5 Sox 9

Exciting game! This one was close while Weaver and Buchholz were in, duking it out. Sox had a big inning in the 5th, getting two runs to take a 3-2 lead. Pedroia hit a 2-run single with two outs on a 13 pitch marathon at bat against Weaver. That was the game changer. If Pedroia strikes out there, it's a different game.

After that though the Sox offense explodes in the 7th for 6 runs to put the game away. Gonzalez hit a three run double followed by an RBI double by Youkilis and a two run homer by Ortiz. The Sox really showed off what everyone thought they were capable of. Even Crawford was hitting the ball with authority. It's nice to finally see the offense we expected 1/6th of the way into the season.

Also nice to beat Weaver who has started the season 6-0 with a 0.99 ERA. But the one dark cloud: Wheeler and Okajima give up three runs in 2 innings. With a 7 run lead, you'd really like to see them mowing guys down but instead they gave up 5 hits including a home run. The bullpen as a whole needs to be better at holding leads if we're going to turn this season around.