Day 64: Red Sox Take Two From Yankees Over Weekend. And Both Teams Are a Bunch of Scaredy Cats!

You know what was super fun this past weekend in the midst of the first official burst of steamy summer heat that rendered me utterly useless? Watching the Red Sox take two out of three from the Yankees in their house. Suh-weeeeet! The Sox are the lone inhabitants atop the AL East and the Yanks dropped to third place with the two losses.

After dropping the series opener, 4-1, I immediately went to that dark, pessimistic place where only bad things happen. Jon Lester has not had a win in his last three starts... I'll admit, I was worried. But then Saturday happened and the Sox exploded for 11 runs on 18 hits. And pitcher Felix Doubront tossed a beauty, allowing just one run on six hits over six innings. The offense went nuts sparked by Mike Napoli's third inning grand salami and round trippers from Daniel Nava and Stephen Drew.

Now the series is even going into Sunday night and the Sox have Clay Buchholz on the mound aiming for win #8. The weather is iffy, delaying the game about 45 minutes to start, so you had to wonder if they'd get a full nine innings in. I won't keep you guessing—they didn't. The game was called in the sixth after a three hour rain delay.

The good news is Boston was up 3-0 when that happened so they get the win, Buchholz goes to 8-0 and leads the major leagues with a stingy 1.62 ERA. Woohoo! *Snoopy Happy Dance*

But the most entertaining part of this game actually happened during the rain delay. Something that proves that baseball players are just pansies by nature. Grown men afraid of a little thunder... I giggle every time I watch it.