Morning Wood

Oakland Athletics 2 Chicago White Sox 1

So I guess we can't win them all. Mark Buehrle pitched well over all, but much like the case has been throughout his career, he just wasn't able to solve the quandaries that are Emil Brown and Mike Sweeney. Sweeney scored both of Oakland's runs, and Kurt Suzuki went 4-for-4 as the A's improved to 6-1 on the road this season. Of course, another large part of the Sox loss was a very familiar sight for Sox fans who've paid attention the last few years. In simple math, it goes something like this: Young pitcher they've never seen before + Lefty = We're screwed. Greg Smith made the second start of his career, and had Sox hitters baffled all night. "Smith went out and pitched a great game. Somebody we'd never seen before," Nick Swisher said. "He had great command of his changeup. We had a couple of good chances to tie the game or maybe move ahead. It just didn't happen. We've been playing good baseball. ... Our sticks didn't come around."

Detroit Tigers 11 Minnesota Twins 9

The Tigers are alive! I had told Sooze from Babes Love Baseball that it was imperative that she continued to hold the Tigers down (Little known fact: Sooze controls the Twins.), and for the first five innings, Sooze did her job. After the first five innings, the Tigers had seen their scoreless streak reach 23 innings before they exploded for 11 runs in the 6th, 7th, and 8th. I suppose it's not all Sooze's fault though, after all I did write that post yesterday in which I pronounced them dead, and everybody knows nothing motivates the Tigers more than my writing. I'm important!

Boston Red Sox 8 Cleveland Indians 6

Apparently it's only fun for the Red Sox to beat the Indians if they do it in heartbreaking comeback form. The two teams met for the first time since last year's ALCS on Monday night, and much like the Red Sox came back from a 3-1 deficit in that series, they came back again on Monday. Manny Ramirez hit a two-run homer in the 9th to give Boston a 5-4 lead, and then, unlike Joe Borowski, Jonathan Papelbon didn't blow his save opportunity for the Red Sox. "I just felt like I had nothing, like I was throwing through water," Borowski said. "It's like I'm stuck in one gear. I had no extra gear. Not only that, I couldn't locate. What hurts is the guys played a great game except the one guy out there at the end." Or it's that you suck.

AL

• Orioles 4 Jays 3
• Yankees 8 Rays 7
• Angels 7 Rangers 4
• Royals 5 Mariners 1

NL

• Pirates 6 Dodgers 4
• Giants 5 DBacks 4