September Sweep

After an abysmal offensive month in August, the Sox have started the month of September off with a bang by sweeping the Detroit Tigers. With their 29 runs in the four game series vs. Detroit, the Sox produced the equivalent of 30% of the runs they generated in the entire month of August. (98 runs in 28 games for an avg. of 3.5 RPG)
I attended Friday nights contest, if you would like to call it a contest, and I took note of a few things. First off, Uribe's new timing toe-tap seemed to be paying dividends as evidenced by his 3R HR in the 2nd. Second, since being called back up Willie Harris seems to be a new man. He hit his first HR of the season on Friday and has been hitting the ball with authority in nearly every at-bat. Finally, to me the key to our offense scoring has become production out of the bottom half of our order. When the only guys collecting hits are Paulie, the Gooch, Crazy and sPod, the offense struggles to put up more than a couple of runs. When guys like JD, Rowand, Uribe, and AJ are hitting, the Sox seem to score in bunches.
One last thing about that game on Friday....I was looking forward to seeing Maggs play in person for the first time since May of last season, but for some reason he was given the night off. Bummer. I'm not sure if I would have joined in on the jeers, but it would have at least been entertaining to be there to hear. At least it was mullet night. That's enough entertainment to last me a month. What turned out to be the best part of the game was seeing the game end on a 100MPH fastball from Bobby Jenks. (I'd never seen someone throw that fast in person before...the ball is moving so fast that you see a trail behind it)
Tomorrow the Sox head to Boston to play a make-up game which was rescheduled from Aug. 14 due to a rainout. The Pale Hose will be sending the rook Brandon McCarthy out to the bump to face off against the Carmine's Curt Schilling, who has not been the same pitcher since returning from the DL earlier this season.
Sox Magic Number: 18
Side note: For any football fans out there.....Last week when playing a round of golf at Cog Hill I was paired up with a former NFL cornerback for the 49ers, Bruce Taylor. He said he played 9 years for San Fran and 1 in the CFL. Just to be sure he wasn't FOS, I looked him up on the net and sure enough, he was a ROY in '70 or '71. He played way before my time, but he must have been a pretty solid player to last 9 years with the same team in the NFL.