It wasn't really that bad of an outing for Tim Wakefield. He pitched five score-less innings to start the game. During which he gave up only two hits and one walk. To start the sixth inning he threw a knuckle ball that didn't appear to do anything and Stairs knocked it back for a home run. He followed that up with a walk, a strike out, another walk, and three base hits before inducing a double play off Zaun.
What the Jays did (and what the Red Sox failed to do) was to beat up the bullpen. The three runs off Wakefield were answered almost immediately by three runs off Marcum and things were all tied up heading into the bottom of the seventh. David Aardsma came in, in relief of Wakefield, and walked Eckstein. Lopez came in, in relief of Aardsma, and gave up a base hit to Stewart. Manny Del came in, in relief of Lopez, and got two quick outs before throwing a bad change up to Thomas that resulted in a two run double. He got the last out as a put out at first.
The Red Sox answered those two runs with a pop out, a strike out, and another pop out. Manny Del came back in and promptly gave up a base hit before getting a put out, a strike out, and allowing another hit (that knocked in the last Jays run.) Manny Del was relieved by the cartoon-ish Corey who struck out the last batter.
In the ninth inning, the Red Sox bats couldn't come up with anything useful against Accardo. Youkilis flied to right and Ortiz was put out at first. Manny did get a base hit but Lowell popped up for the final out.
The bright spots of the game were J.D. Drew's three run homer and Kevin Cash's double. I think I must have really low expectations of those two guys. Cash's double was less useful production wise but it was good to see. He should be careful though I might start expecting him to be able to hit and not just be any easy out. Drew's home run was both useful and a pretty thing to see-especially since he had struck out twice earlier in the game.
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