Twentyfour Hour Turnaround

One day after what was arguably the worst team, performance of the year, the Sox went overseas (so to speak) and took out all their frustrations from last night's abortion against the Yankees on the Jays. From terrible pitching and worse fielding (all those errors), the Hub Hose put Jake Peavy on the hill and let him hurl them past the Jays. Result: last night's 14-5 loss to the Stripes was replaced, happily, by tonight's 8-1 victory in Canada. In fact, but for one pitch late in the game by Peavy, the Hose would have had a shutout against their rivals from the north. Middlebrooks, in his second game back from the DL, went 2 for 4, including a double and drove in a pair of runs. Papi drove his fifth shot into the cheaps, while Pedey and Nap each collected a pair of hits.  To round it all out, Brad really let loose on Toronto pitching, going 3 for 4, all of them extra bases. He had a pair of ripping two baggers and a trip for the evening, and drove home a ribbie.
The offense collected its highest total of hits for a game so far this year, accounting for sixteen knocks, nine of them for extra bases.  Keeping right in stride with the hitters, Peavy and his followers from the pen were sparkling. Jake had a game WHIP of 1.0, K'ing seven and allowing only a single run, a bases empty shot late in the game. While it is just his first win of the 2014 season, his ERA of 2.87 shows how well he's been doing, and how a lack of timely hits has deprived him and the Sox from a better record.
Sox relievers finished out the game, each tossing an inning of shutout relief. Capuano continued his perfect ERA, throwing just 12 pitches to strike out the side, while Miller threw 19 pitches, but allowed only a single and quickly eliminated that risk with a pair of K's and an easy pop to the Dustman. Game over!