Home Sweet Home by Jared Carrabis
Red Sox Return To Fenway

With the Rays winning their past three straight games and the Yankees being losers of their last four straight, the Red Sox gained a split with the Chicago White Sox to land them four games back of the first place Rays and five games up on the third place Yankees. With a record of 68-51, the Red Sox hold a two game lead over the Chicago White Sox in the Wild Card standings but the team is primarily focused on taking the division for the second straight year.


Boston is now coming off their first road trip with a winning record since the middle of June hoping to continue their winning ways at home. The Red Sox are set to open up a six-game home stand starting with a three-game series against Josh Hamilton, Ian Kinsler and the rest of the free swinging Texas Rangers. It has been confirmed that triple-A Pawtucket knuckleballer Charlie Zink will fill the slot of Tim Wakefield in the rotation tonight.


Zink is having a great season down in Pawtucket but the one thing to watch out for that is worth being noted is that he will be taking the mound on three days rest. The knuckleballer leads the Paw Sox with 152.1 innings pitched and has the lowest ERA among active starting pitchers on the Pawtucket roster. He has accumulated a record of 13-4 to tie him for most wins on the staff with David Pauley and has 94 strikeouts on the season.


The Red Sox are slowly creeping back to the .500 mark on the road with a record of 28-35 away from Fenway but fans will be happy to know that the team is coming back home where they are 40-16 on the season. The Red Sox don't have many home games to be played this month so they will surely try to take advantage of their time spent at the Fens.



Published on August 12, 2008

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