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A few hiccups aside, Beckett and Lester have been more than fine. Tim Wakefield is back. Clay Buchholz is doing better than we expected. Unfortunately, you need a five-man rotation in this day and age (somewhere up there, Pud Galvin just snorted derisively), and that fifth starter has proved elusive all year for the Sox. Brad Penny was just sent packing. Daisuke Matsuzaka isn't ready. And Junichi Tazawa sure wasn't the answer last night, burying the Sox in a 9-0 hole in the fourth inning.

Tazawa's arm, Youk's bat keys to victory The day after a historically bad pitching performance overwhelmed a more-than-adequate offense, the Red Sox pitching and hitting came together for a rout of their own as they dominated the Yankees, 14-1, in an important win for the team.

On the outside looking in. After losing two out of three in Texas, the Red Sox are out of the playoff picture for the moment. It's a troubling time. Out batting is ineffective, our pitching (beyond Beckett and Lester) is shaky, and by our unofficial count, the Sox are 2-75 on the road this season. Not counting Baltimore.

Well, Junichi Tazawa got his first major league win in his first major league start. All he had to do was touch off a series of events that landed somewhere between "difference of opinion" and "international incident", hang on for the minimum five innings, and wait for Mike Lowell to swoop in and save the day.

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Six hours of baseball; 15 innings; a zero 29 straight times; 496 pitches; 96 at-bats; 11 hits We all knew this week's four-game series would have implications beyond August 6-9. The main implication is that the hapless 0-8 Yankees are gone. Now we have the Yankees who beat the Red Sox twice in two days in two totally different ways and have taken a 4.5 game lead in the division. New York outhit the Sox on Thursday and slightly outpitched them on Friday.

Well, maybe not laugh, exactly. (Except that Claude Julien, asked to describe the pain that kept Dennis Wideman out of last night's game, said, "Does it have to be upper body or lower body? Let's go with middle body.") Bruins get hurt, new Bruins take the ice, and the Bruins win. It's been happening rather a lot lately.