Another win.

Crawford threw a pretty good game. He tossed 67 pitches to 20 batters over 5⅓ innings, which is not a lot of pitches but not a little either.

The Rangers had 0 runs through those five innings but when Crawford came out to start the 6^th, he lost it and gave up four runs.

Actually, Crawford didn't really give up all four runs. Cora took him out after he had given up one run and loaded the bases but any runs resulting from those base runners are assigned to be Crawford in the game stats.

Booser came in walked in two runs before Cora pulled him. A new guy, Sims, came in and while he did allow the last of Crawfords four runs to cross the plate, he also managed to get the outs needed to end the inning.

The bullpen was able to finish off the next three innings without giving up any runs and the game ended with the Red Sox beating the Rangers 9-4.

Oh, and the Twins beat the crap out of the Royals 13-3 which means the Red Sox are now only one game out of the wildcard.

Houck is the starter for tonight's game.  First pitch is at 6:10.

Hopefully my youngest and his wife make it to Fenway before then so they are in their seats when the game starts.

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