Hardball Heaven

So the Sox are cruuuuuising last night... Beckett's throwing peas and big benders, Ortiz has gone deep, Manny has awoken from his lumber slumber and gone deep twice... the Sox are up 6-2 when the Jays come up in the bottom of the 8th, and you're sitting there with visions of Jonathan Papelbon blowing away the Jays in the 9th for another save... and then it all goes shockingly awry.

Russ Adams, budding superstar Vernon Wells, and always scary Troy Glaus all hit bombs in the 8th and all of a sudden it's a tie game and we're heading for extra frames. The Jays' bullpen looked impressive in the extra innings - particularly Justin Speier - and the Jays came through in the bottom of the 12th to win it, 7-6. Good ballgame, crappy result.

The game was a matchup of former Marlin guns Beckett and A.J. Burnett. Beckett lost the game, but the Jays and Burnett may have lost more. Burnett was pulled early with elbow problems, and we later learned that he's heading directly for Alabama to visit with Dr. Andrews. Not what you want to hear if you're the guy who ponied up $55 million for A.J.

Lenny DiNardo versus Roy Halladay today...