Joba Beats Boston

Now that was much more like it. Joba Chamberlain won his first game since early August as the Yanks beat the Sox 9-5 in the Bronx. Joba cruised through 6, except for 2 bad pitches that ended up over the wall and producing 3 runs for the Sox. Still the Yanks jumped on Jon Lester and had his pitch count way up by the 3rd. It was in the 3rd that tragedy seems to have been avoided. Melky lined a ball off of what appeared to be Lester's knee and the courageous kid went down like he was shot. Fortunately, they are calling it a right thigh contusion and the x-rays were negative. For the Yanks, ARod had a big night with a homer, a single, a double and two walks. Joe sort of went with the B pen. Aceves pitched a 7 pitch 7th, then for some reason, Joe sent Alby out to start the 8th. Alby wasn't good and ended up letting in two runs, before Marte and and Hughes could combine for 3 outs. Coke pitched a scoreless 9th. After all these years, it was nice to see the Yanks running like they always should have with Varitek behind the plate. CC goes tomorrow. Go Yanks!