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The latest on Wakefield: "He's been diagnosed with a stress fracture in one of his ribs," Francona said. "He's actually been pitching with pain in his ribs for about a month or six weeks. [The] bone scan shows that there's significant healing now, which is good."

More bad news: David Ortiz has been sitting out with a sore back. He'll be fine, though, and Wily Mo Pena did a fine job taking his place. Yesterday's game had Crisp leading off and Youkilis taking Ortiz's spot in the lineup. Even without Ortiz, the Sox managed to beat Texas by a score of 6-4. Schilling pitched 7 innings and gave up 4 runs. Delcarmen got the hold and Timlin got his second save. 6 out of the 10 runs in the game came from RBI doubles. This win for Schilling makes him 12-3 and brings his ERA to 3.50.

Kyle Snyder starts today against Seattle. Yeah, we'll see how that goes down. Unfortunately for fellow East Coasters, the game doesn't start until 10 pm and I am not a big fan of the late games.

Yesterday, I watched a Pardon the Interruption that didn't have Wilbon OR Kornheiser! The only consolation I had was Michael Smith won Around the Horn that day and I haven't seen that happen in a long time (okay, I haven't watched the show in a long time, either).