Final Score
Red Sox 8
Blue Jays 6

One to Look Back on: Baseball people always tell you the season is a marathon, that one game doesn’t make or break a season, that momentum is only as good as the next day’s starting pitcher.

All of that is true. Still, last night’s win in Toronto was big. VERY BIG!

Against a pitcher (Ted Lilly) who’s owned them…starting a pitcher (David Pauley) who has no business in the majors right now…the Red Sox beat a team that’s absolutely tormented them. In the process, they remained tied with the Yankees and kept the Blue Jays in the 3rd place hole for a bit longer.

The 4 home runs were nice, but the real reason the Sox won was their defense, keeping the Jays from busting open a big inning while Pauley was loading bases like a dock worker. The brightest star; Alex Gonzalez, who continues to wow us with the glove.

A-Gone turned a double play that was amazing in how effortless he made an impossible play look. Most other shortstops, the ball’s in the outfield, at least 2-runs are home, and Toronto is off and running. Instead, he reached back to corral an errant throw from the mound (when Pauley should have gone home with the ball)…tagged 2nd base…and somehow managed to make a perfect throw to first while falling…in time to get the runner, of course.

Just give him the gold glove right now. If Jeter or anyone else wins it, they might as well abolish that already phony award. (Phony because Rafael Palmeiro won it one year while playing almost exclusively at DH)

Am I wrong, or was last night’s win the kind you remember as the season wears on? And that play by Gonzalez, were you as wowed by it as I was?