Wake Continues to Make His All-Star Case

Tim Wakefield made another strong bid to be included on the American League All-Star team as he went six innings in defeating the Florida Marlins at Fenway last night.Wake is now an astounding 9-3 on the season, and threw 93 pitches in getting the win. He's now 8-0 in his last 9 starts at Fenway Park. Only Roy Halladay has more wins in MLB, with 10. The Red Sox are now an MLB-best 22-8 on their home grounds.Since Wakefield was available out of the pen over the weekend, he only went six innings. Manny Delcarmen, Takashi Saito and Daniel Bard pitched three scoreless innings in completing the 8-2 win.David Ortiz may have finally turned a corner last night (fingers crossed, as we've been at this point before), as he hit a bomb to right for his fifth homer of the year, and in the same six-run fourth inning, hit a two-run single. On his first at-bat in the second he hit what appeared to be a ball heading for the bullpen, but was caught right at the warning track. Papi continues to...