Sox Ride Bats & Arms To Sweep

The Boston Red Sox used a sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays to extend their lead in the American League East to seven games over second place New York.

Boston won each of the three games against Toronto in convincing fashion by 9-2, 9-3 and 8-0 scores.

Josh Beckett, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Tim Wakefield were brilliant in their starts and the bullpen was effective in the limited opportunities they had in the series.

Following this series Boston's team ERA stands at 3.17, the starters have a 3.49 ERA and the bullpen has a 2.38 ERA.

Boston hit nine homeruns in the series with each of the regulars hitting atleast one except Coco Crisp and J.D. Drew.

More importantly the series continued the solid hitting of Jason Varitek and Dustin Pedroia, two of Boston's hitter who had been struggling for much of the early season.

Boston heads home for a 10 game homestand that will provide two stiff challenges for the Red Sox, Detroit comes to town for a four game set and Atlanta for a three game season. Last season Boston had a stellar record against the National League and hope to continue that this season.

Julian Tavarez, Curt Schilling and Josh Beckett go for the Sox in the Baltimore series starting tomorrow.

Tavarez will face rookie Brian Burres while Schilling goes against Steve Trachsel. Beckett faces Jeremy Guthrie. Boston should easily be favored in each of the three games.