Sox will pluck Orioles again today in matinee, final game before All Star fiesta.
Sox are catching up to those Devilish Rays (name change or not). Gonna be a doozy of a second-half of a season all the way around...
MEET THE NEW BOSS. SAME AS THE OLD BOSS
From Boston.com
The Red Sox have spent the last week crafting an answer to all those who, bedazzled by the Tampa Bay Rays, hastened to proclaim a new world order in the American League East.
It goes something like this: Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Not that anyone would ever get fooled again.
A week ago, the Sox left New York five games behind the Rays, who had won seven in a row.
This morning, while basking in the top-to-bottom pleasure of administering a 12-1 beating to the Baltimore Orioles last night before 37,539 in Fenway Park, the Sox are within a half-game of reclaiming the lead in the AL East, with one game left before the division races take a respite for the All-Star break.
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2008/07/13/with_one_blow_after_another_sox_deliver_ko/Dan Wakefield:
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