These are strange days at Fenway Park and with the Boston Red Sox in general. The team claimed former star Johnny Damon off waivers from the Detroit Tigers yesterday but he has 48 hours to make his decision.
In the mean time, the Red Sox (72-54) won their third straight and moved a season-high 18 games over .500 with a 6-3 win at Fenway over the Seattle Mariners (49-76) last night.
John Lackey (12-7) submitted one of his best performances of the season, against Seattle once again. He almost no-hit them in July at Safeco Field. Last night in the cold and rain, Lackey went eight innings, giving up three runs (two earned) on six hits with two walks and a season-high 10 strikeouts.
Marco Scutaro continued his injury-plagued but fine season, driving in a career-best four RBIs.
The Mariners went up 1-0 in the third on an infield single by Chone Figgins (3 hits, stolen base) and an error by Jed Lowrie.
Scutaro's first two-run single put Boston up 2-1 in the fifth inning and then J.D. Drew (2 hits) made it 3-1 with an RBI single.
Doug Fister (4-9) held the Red Sox in check for the first few innings but then he unraveled thanks to his crappy stuff and even worse defense behind him.
He went 6.1 innings, allowing five runs (two earned) on six hits with a walk and six strikeouts. Ryan Langerhans dropped a pop fly in left that bounced into the stands for a ground-rule double.
Casey Kotchman tied it at 3-3 in the sixth.
Scutaro was money in the seventh with a two-run single and Victor Martinez pushed another run across with a sacrifice fly.
Jonathan Papelbon gave up a hit but struck out two in the ninth for his 31st save.
Josh Beckett takes on former Sox youngster David Pauley tonight as Boston tries to keep the good times rolling.
The Yankees lost last night but the Rays won so the Red Sox trail both teams by 5.5 games.
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