Sox snap three game skid...

The offense finally showed some life with men on base Saturday night, scoring three runs in the 7th off a HBP, 3 singles and a sac bunt to put the Sox ahead 4-3. After last nights victory the Sox upped their record in one run games to 10-3 for the season. El Duque, as always, battled the entire night, but kept us in the game surrendering only 3 runs, one of which came on a wild pitch in the first. He managed to stick around long enough to earn the victory. Ozzie's handling of the bullpen has pleased me for the most part thus far, with last nights sticking point coming after Marte gave up a walk with 2 out in the 8th. Ozzie wasted no time in getting Hermy in to end the inning, and the game. I think we might have found our new closer. 0ER in 11IP so far. That looks a whole lot better than Shingo's bloated snowman ERA of over 8 after blowing the hold in Friday nights game.

Side note: After a record of 3-86 in games where we scored less than 3 runs last year, the Sox are already 3-3 in that catagory this year. I find it pretty unbelievable that with all the runs we scored last year, we still had 89 ballgames where we barely scored at all.

Due up:
Ledezma 1-1 5.82 ERA 04' vs. Sox: 2-1 20 IP 4.05 ERA
Garland 4-0 1.80 ERA 04' vs. Tigers: 1-2 21.2 IP 6.23 ERA