Garland Earns 10th W

Last night the Sox, fresh off their sweep of the Rockies in Coors Field, took the first game of the series vs. the Padres 4-2. Jon Garland surrendered only one run and had a 2-hit shutout going until the 7th inning when he was touched up for a wall-scraping solo homer which was followed by 3 consecutive hits. Garland got lucky to escape further damage that inning thanks to Aaron Rowands spectacular diving catch saving 2 runs on a line drive hit by Khalil Greene to short center field to end the inning. Garland had a no-hitter going through 4 1/3 innings. JG is the first pitcher in the AL and the second in all of baseball to earn 10 victory's. (Dontrell Willis being the first)
The offense scored just enough to win yet again, with Jon Garland even chipping in with an RBI single. Crede went 2 for 3 and AJ hit a solo homer in the 7th off of Woody Williams to add what turned out to be the winning run.
At the plate the Sox collectively have looked better and better as of late, highlighted by the explosion in the 8th and 9th innings Wednesday in Colorado. The Sox scored 5+ runs in an inning for the first time this season and 10 runs altogether in those 2 innings. (The Sox scored 5+ runs in an inning twenty-something times last season) Players of note who have been on fire lately are Aaron Rowand, who has raised his average to .287 but had a 13 game hitting streak come to an end Friday night, and Jermaine Dye who is hitting .260, which does not sound very roubust unless you know that just one month ago he was at about .200, possibly below. JD was hitting over .400 in the last 8 ballgames going into last nights game, in which he went 1 for 4 with a run scored.
Due up: Buehrle 7-1, 3.15 goes up against Stauffer 1-2, 4.55