Sports Redux: Sox Finally Get Big Score

It had been almost three weeks since the Red Sox cracked double digits. More importantly, it had been almost three days since the Sox won a game. Luckily, both those streaks ended.

After waiting out a torrential rain delay (with hailstones, which, guys, you were supposed to hit the area in October 2004), the Sox began pelting the Mets and starting pitcher Tim Redding with more conventional baseball-sized objects, with a pair of three-run homers (Lowell and Youkilis) anchoring a 12-5 win.

Tim Wakefield wasn't nearly as sharp as he was in Tuesday's tidy 2-1 win over the Jays. He fell behind 5-3 in the fifth, but stuck around one more inning to get the win, getting the lead back on the back of RBI hits from George Kotteras and Nick Green. The good news? The Sox are alone in first, again, naturally. The bad news? David Ortiz hasn't found any sort of encore for Wednesday's home run and is now sub-.200, and they're really starting to think about dropping him in the order.

Dan Shaughnessy, who we'll credit when it's due, has a pretty good column about the hail and other assorted weirdness going on at Fenway yesterday. What he didn't see, though, was the Green Line train around 4:30 that was evenly divided between Sox fans and anime convention attendees. Now THAT was weird.

Photo by Winslow Townson/Associated Press.