Well, overall, it was a team victory, with a number of players making key contributions. However, both at bat and on defense, the team was led by Vic and Lack. Vic, only recently off the DL from season start, went 4-4, including a ringing double and drove in a pair of ribbies. Pierzynski and Bradley each had a pair of hits, driving three more between them, and the team picked up a total of thirteen hits, five of them for extra bases.
Defensively, Lack was stellar! He allowed just six hits in eight innings and had a game WHIP of 0.875--excellent! He also K'd five Rays batters along the way. Mujica came in to start the 9th, and after giving up a pair of runs to the Rays along with getting two outs, gave way to Koji. Then, three pitches, all strikes, and the game was over! Koji got his sixth save in six tries.
This win gives the Hose their third in the last four games, and gets them a bit of space between them and the bottom of the division. In fact, it leaves them, once again, within a game of .500, and in third, half a game behind the O's and 2.5 back of the Stripes, who lost tonight to the M's.
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