The top of the lineup consisting of J.D. Drew and Dustin Pedroia are getting on and the Boston Red Sox (44-24) are winning with the new one-two tandum.
Tim Wakefield (7-7) picked up his seventh win of the season going 5.2 innings, on eight hits, five earned runs, one walk, three strikeouts, and two homeruns one of which was given up to Barry Bonds.
Bonds homered off of Wakefield in the sixth inning to right giving him 748 for his career.
Matt Morris suffered the loss (7-4) going 4 innings, nine hits, eight earned runs, two walks, and three strikeouts.
The Sox scored early and never let the Giants (30-38) take the lead in this one. Drew lead off the game with a double, Pedroia was hit by a pitch, and David Ortiz walked setting the stage for Manny Ramirez with no outs and the bases loaded.
Ramirez grounded into a a double play, short to second to first, and Drew scored making it 1-0. Kevin Youkilis singled home Pedroia bringing the score to 2-0.
Morris has had his worse innings all season long in the third and it became evident as Boston scored five runs in the third inning.
Ortiz hit a two RBI ground rule double, Ramirez grounded out scoring Pedroia for his second run of the game, Youkilis added another RBI single, and Mike Lowell doubled off the Green Monster scoring Youkilis making the score 6-2.
Doug Mirabelli knocked in the final run of the inning on a RBI single to left that scored Lowell running up the score to 7-2.
It was a back and forth as Pedro Feliz homered in the top of the fourth inching the score closer to 7-3, but Ramirez doubled off the wall in the bottom frame getting back a run 8-3.
After Bonds homer in the sixth, Nate Schierholtz tripled to deep right center scoring Feliz making it a three run gap 8-5.
Ramirez homered for the second time in two games in the bottom of the seventh giving the Sox a 9-5 lead that eventually ended up being the final score as a brass of Red Sox relievers including: Manny Delcarmen, Javier Lopez, Joel Pineiro, and Hideki Okajima came in to finish the game up after Wakefield departed.
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