Red Sox sweep the Rays.  Final score today 3-7.  I guess that means they’re even.  Except now the Rays are three games back.

Do you know the difference between boy bloggers and girl bloggers?  I totally gave myself a pedicure while watching the game today.  Why is that important?  Because I live in Florida and we don’t wear shoes, so ya gotta have perty toes.  Oh alright…back to the baseball.

Great to see Kazmir back.  Forgive me but I can’t call him Kaz.  It reminds me of Taz the Tasmanian Devil character.   You know the one that was insanely popular in the 90’s.  Do you think there are a lot of people out there with Taz tattoo regret?  My old roommate suffers from this.  Wow, off topic again.

It was really great to see Kazmir on the mound again even if he wasn’t able to hold off the Red Sox.  I think he’ll get better with every start.

Birkins was the only Rays pitcher able to keep Boston in check.

It’s too bad Manny was playing left field today, Longo had a nice rip out there that Ellsbury ran down.  I’m fairly confident that would have dropped and scored some runs if Manny was there.

Jonny Gomes got robbed!  He ripped a ball to left and it was called foul, but the replay showed it was clearly fair.  Didn’t the officials get Rays of Light’s letter?  The call at second when Pedroia over ran the bag was questionable too. 

Rays hitters did a nice job of making Lester throw a lot of pitches.  They just couldn’t put the hits together.  Pena had a nice home-run.  Glad to see him connecting again.  The Bartlett Aki combo scored a run together with a single and a triple.  Hope we see more of that.  I have to admit that Aki had a good day and seems to be coming around.  I still reserve the right to grumble about him though.

In the 7th the game seemed to be right there for the Rays.  They were only down one run, 3-4.  The Red Sox just wouldn’t let up though.

Hinske had a nice bunt in the eighth, but I thought it was an odd time for that.  There were two outs and he gets a lot of extra base hits.??

The pitching just wasn’t as sharp this series, and I hate to admit it but the Red Sox are tough.  Let’s hope the Rays regroup on their day off and get their mojo back.  Go Rays!!