Finally, .500

You can say the 9th time is the charm. With a 4-3 win & short series sweep of the struggling Cincinnati Reds the Red Sox improve their record to 17-17, hitting the .500 mark for the first time in over a month. A monkey off their back of sorts. Pitching was good, starting with Peavy & ending with the Koji of old. The offense continued to strand runners early. But the Sox bats were able to push across 2 runs in the 8th on RBI hits by Pierzynski & Middlebrooks - the tying & go-ahead runs. And the Boston 9 scratch out another 4-3 come-from-behind win. The NESN pre-game show mentioned that taking 6 out of every 10 games results in 96 wins over a full season & it just so happens that the Sox have won 6 out of their last 10. So maybe things are getting on track finally. I think that they need one more round of 5 good starts by the starting rotation against Texas & Minnesota to really take off. As Eck said, this is a week-to-week watch of the standings since all 5 AL East teams are bunched together. 2 more series wins on the road would be nice.