Giddy Up

It has officially started: the nailbiting and the rally nachos. I even watered the lucky plant for clutch hits (and it worked).

The Red Sox pulled off a nice clean 6-3 win last night over the lamo Orioles. Trot and Manny provided the clutch hitting. There was good starting pitching, a solid performance by the bullpen and only the mildest scare in the bottom of the 9th -- nothing that a couple of Tums couldn't take care of.

My favorite play of the game though was when Jason Varitek almost beat out a routine ground ball to the first baseman in the top of the fourth inning. Given, Tek always runs his ass off, but this was something more...a message to his teammates: "This is the way that we are going to play."

Today 4:30et/1:30pt The Emancipator vs Bedard