Another three games in the books and the Red Sox are still holding on to twenty games over .500 and a double digits lead in the AL East. Last night's game was very entertaining as have been the last two against the Jays. It was good to see Wakefield beat Halladay on Tuesday and even though Friday's night was a loss, it was an entertaining one with Pedroia, Papi and Manny all getting a ninth inning chance to win the game. Coco is on fire.

Despite having to listen to the Jay's announcer Jamie Campbell, king of calling the home runs the never were and general homey extraordinaire, I was caught finding myself momentarily saddened for Toronto's Troy Glaus getting robbed by a bad call early in the game. He made a quite excellent sneaky slide - very Tim Raines circa 1983-84 - into second deeking out Pedroi...err, but not the ump somehow. But I have this recollection that Raines never hid his last minute move from the ump with his body, that he knew not to waste the moment. That's when I stopped feeling bad for Glaus. To be fair, he was far from the goat that he was when we saw him play live in May though I still thank the Lord daily that things did not work out differently.

Today, as illustrated, All-Star game winning Beckett seems to be taking on the Jay's surprise call up Howdy Doody in an afternoon game to close out the series. Good luck with that.

In other news, the Yanks have secured a weekend split with Tampa. They must be pleased.