The sox now own baseball's best home record of 21-5, surpassed only by 1978's 22-4--sweeping a home stand for the first time in 2 years by clinching the last of a 4 game series against Kansas City. Dice-K now owns an AL leading 8-0 record, walking 6 to lead the majors in BBs. Perhaps Varitek's day off affected his high pitch count (118 in 5 2/3 innings, 67 strikes), since he's not used to Cash.
This afternoon's slugfest rang up a combined 19 runs scored, 27 hits and 1 error with JD Drew & Mike Lowell both hitting grand slams. Bill Buckner & Tony Armas were the last two Sox to hit 2 grand slams at Fenway on August 7, 1984. Youkilis moved into the #3 spot for AL league leading hitters at 320.
The funniest thing I've read all week is how Jacoby Ellsbury dressed up as Johnny Damon for Halloween--though it didn't specify which Damon, the long haired leading idiot of 2004's world series champions or the short haired New York Yankee.
Keywords: Dice-K, Jacoby Ellsbury, JD Drew, Johnny Damon, Kansas City, Kevin Cash, Mike Lowell, New York Yankees, Varitek, world series
