Feel Good Inc.

Owning their smallest lead in the AL East since April 24th, the Red Sox continued their must-win week Tuesday night at Fenway Park. Facing the D-Ray's Scott Kazmir, who has owned the Red Sox for longer than they care to remember, the Sox won 2-1—and did it in dramatic fashion. Mike Lowell went yard over the Coke bottles on top of the Green Monster to tie the game in the bottom of the 9th and Coco Crisp drove home the winning run in the form of Jason Varitek, who had bashed a two out ground rule double to right. Jon Lester pitched a two hitter over 7 innings in his first appearance at the Fens since overcoming non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The victory became even better when the Yankees dropped to 5 games back after suffering a 12-0 shellacking at the hands of the Baltimore Orioles.

The night was permeated with many "feel good" themes including not only Lester's gem, but also, Eric Gagne regaining some of the form expected of him when he struck out the side in the top of the 9th with the Sox down 1-0 and Mike Timlin coming in with two outs in the top of the 8th and striking out B.J. Upton with the bases loaded.

With the win, the Sox improved to 2 of 42 in games that they are trailing going into the 9th inning. The Mother's Day Miracle against Baltimore was their only other 9th inning comeback of the year. Although the Sox have the best record in the majors, are 4th in the AL in runs scored, 2nd in on-base percentage, 3rd in RBI's and slugging and surprisingly, 2nd only to the Yankees in run-scored from the 7th inning onwards (205-193), there have been precious few late inning comeback wins like this in 2007 and therefore, the team's continued lack of offense should legitimately be cause for concern going into the stretch run.