Back to Winning Again

Well, as those of you who visit regularly know, I've been AWOL for the past week or so. No excuses, but late work hours have taken their toll. Anyway, we missed three consecutive games in which our heroes only managed 3 hits per game, and while winning one of those on Jake's home run, left the Sox out of first by a half game and winning only two of their last seven. Yesterday's game, hopefully, began a return to normalcy, although the injury bug that ruined last year, suddenly appears to have returned to some degree. I'm hoping that it's now at its worst and things will get better for the final forty-odd games. Yesterday, it was a combo of post-early innings JB and The Dustman that won things for the Sox. Having a bit of trouble adjusting from the bullpen mound to the real one due to the dramatic differences in slopes of the mounds, JB gave up three early runs, but then settled down, allowing just a total of seven hits over seven innings and no freebies at all. Got his 10th W. The offense was dominated by a combination of Sox base speed, four swipes overall, including a pair by Crawford, and some timely hitting by the Dustman that accounted for three of the Sox four runs.