-- John Lackey didn’t show any mercy on his former team of the 8 seasons last night as he threw a 2 hit, 1-run game against the Halos for a 3-1 Boston win.
The Sox have now won all three of the games in the Angels series (heading into another tough game tonight) due to clutch pitching, tight defense on the diamond and timely bats in the latter innings.
Lackey stole the show in his third win of the season (3-1) though with 4 strikeouts and 2 walks over 7 innings of play. Lackey also worked efficiently, only throwing 103 pitches in the outing.
To make things better for Boston, setup man Daniel Bard came in firing his best triple-digit heat to blow through the 8th and Papelbon collected the save without any trouble in the 9th – basically the Sox are finally winning games ideally the way they draw them up.
Adrian Beltre was huge for the Sox Wednesday, going 3-4 with a homer and 2 RBIs. To top it off David Ortiz hit his 4th home run of the year, continually instilling more and more hope in the fans and organization one series at a time.
After pulling to .500 on the season at 14-14 with last night's win, the Sox are now going for a Boston sweep of the Angels -- the team that knocked them out of the playoffs in the ALDS last fall. The final game of the series is tonight with Dice-K taking the mound for his second start of the year.
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