Sox 8 Blue Jays 7

Sox win as they out slugged the Toronto Blue Jays 8-7. Jake Peavy started the game for the Sox and he matched up against the Blue Jay's Brian Tallet. Jake Peavy had a rough game, Peavy's line was 5.2 Innings, 8 hits, and allowed 7 earned runs. Peavy struggled today because he is a hard ball pitcher, he pitches hard fastballs and hard sliders. Therefore today he did not have anything that slowed down the pace and nothing did today. The Blue Jays knew what was coming, something that was going to be fast so they did not have much guessing to do and just swung the bat well. Brian Tallet also had a rough start his line was 6 innings, 8 hits, and 6 earned runs. He had trouble staying ahead in the count, as he fell behind the Sox hitters, who took advantage of his mistakes later in the count. Today was all about the new guys: Mark Teahen, Andruw Jones, and Alex Rios. Mark Teahen hit a single which tied the game in the sixth inning, he then hit a homer in the ninth to tie it up when our backs were against the wall late in the game, and finally in the eleventh inning he hit a triple to deep right center scoring pinch runner Omar Vizquel. Talk about clutch, we have been waiting to see that from him, since we acquired him. Andruw Jones had a multi homer night, and hit an rbi single. We are beginning to see glimpses of the old Andruw Jones, the one that hit 51 home run and drove in 128 in 2005. Also Alex Rios joined in playing in a very hostile environment because every time he did anything in the game fans would were booing like crazy. He had three hits, and hopefully we can see more of this because he has been hitting anything thrown to him this season. This game to me will be a turning point and now we can really get on a roll here and hopefully put a couple of wins in a row. As far as Peavy goes, I am not to worried. I think that he will be able to turn it around, his first start was decent but I didn't expect much of him in 38 degree weather and this start was rather awful. However, he is still a great pitcher and there is no doubt in my mind that he won't succeed this season, simply because he doesn't want to let him and his team down. I am ecstatic that the offense kept producing in such clutch times, and was relived that we won this game after performing so brilliantly, at least on the offensive side. Go Sox! Tomorrow's probables for the Sox: Floyd (0-0, 3.00) and for the Jays Ricky Romero (0-0, 1.29)