Sox win the series with an all around constant hammering away at the Royals. Sox piled up 10 hits and 3 walks on the game while Lester, Bard, and Wheeler held the Royals to just 3 hits and 4 walks. McDonald and Crawford each hit solo home runs and McDonald had a three hit game. Lavarnway had another 2 hit game too. In fact, Pedroia and Reddick were the only starters that went hitless. All joking aside, Crawford really has start to look like a different player lately. He's still swinging at some bad pitches and is behind on some fastballs but he's really squaring up the breaking balls well. Hopefully good things are coming up.
Lester looked fantastic getting 1-2-3 innings while the Sox chipped away against the Royals' pitching. Bard pitched 2 innings. I'm really surprised with how much work he's had all season already. Tito's gotta get him so rest so he's fresh in October. Sox got three runs in the top of the 8th so that would have seemed like the ideal time to send someone besides Bard back out there. Someone like Wheeler who came in the 9th.
Good thing we got the series win as we've got 4 against the Rangers in Texas next. It's gonna be hot. Maybe even hotter than it was here today (my car thermometer said 94)!
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