Catchin' up with those red-hot Sox

-- Many apologies to the Nation, I've been slackin on my posts for nearly 2 weeks now due to the NBA Finals, my b-day happenings and a tornado that touched down near our part of town--still,no excuses...back to baseball.

Since I posted last, the Sox have gone on an extraordinary interleague tear and closed the gap in the AL East, now tied with the Rays in 2nd at 1.5 games back from the Yankees. Boston took 2 of 3 from the Phils for the 2nd time this season and followed that great effort up with 3-game sweeps of the the D-Backs & Dodgers (sorry Manny, that's what you get for leaving town the way you did, ya prick!)

In June Big Papi and Adrian Beltre have continued to swing the bat like their old selves, we saw heroics from Daniel Nava who was brought up from AAA and blasted a grand slam on his first pitch he saw in the majors, and a walk-off double from a resurgent Dustin Pedroia propeled the Sox to a Dodgers sweep and a game back in the division.

To say the least the Sox are red-hot as they pull into Colorado for the last week of the interleague season and it appears Boston is in the hunt for 1st as the season's midpoint approaches.

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