Dice-K to return, Sox drop 1 but take Rangers series

-- The Sox may have lost the battle Thursday but they won the war, defeating the Rangers by a game count of 2-1 in the Fen.

Bucholz took a great shutout performance through six and dragged a bit through the mud in the 7th inning of game 3, giving up the 3 runs that would make the difference as the final score was 3-0 Rangers.

Part of that responsibility has got to fall on the coaching staff's judement as to how long to let the young pitcher go in a game, but some run support would've been nice.

The best news of Thursday however was that Dice-K would rejoin the Sox this week and be fit into the number 4 spot in the starting rotation with Wake moving to the bullpen, a potentially genius idea as Atchison and Schoenweis have not yet proven themselves effective.

I'm not gonna Yay or Nay Thursday's game, because Clay had a decent showing with 1 bad inning and the Sox never could get the bats going. Overall though I do feel like the Sox have started to leap "some" of the early season hurdles they were so concerned with after the Rays series (who are playing the best baseball in the majors right now).
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