The Red Sox freight train is coming down the tracks, good luck stopping it

Nothing can stop the Boston Red Sox at this moment, they are the hottest team in MLB as they won their eighth straight game 16-4 yesterday afternoon at the Rogers Centre against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Boston (38-26) climbed a season-high 12 games over .500 (remember the 2-10 start?) with an 18 hit attack.

Toronto (32-33) had no chance as they were held to only six hits in their second straight loss to the Red Sox.

John Lackey (4-5) got the win but he was about the last guy on Boston that you would cite in the win since every starter in the lineup had an RBI. It was a game that was all about the offense. Lackey went six innings, allowing four earned runs on six hits with two walks and eight strikeouts.

Blue Jays starter Brandon Morrow (2-4) has always had a great arm but he walks way too many batters and as a result, his pitch count always seems to get high early on. He lasted 4.1 innings, tagged for nine earned runs on 10 hits with three walks and four strikeouts.

Marco Scutaro led Boston with four hits and three runs. Dustin Pedroia had three hits, three RBIs and two runs. David Ortiz had two hits, three RBIs and two runs and Jason Varitek added two hits, four RBIs and three runs. J.D. Drew had two hits, two runs and an RBI while Jacoby Ellsbury notched two hits, a run and RBI.

Boston scored four runs in the third to take an early 4-0 lead. It was 5-0 in the fourth after an RBI double by Pedroia. Toronto got a two-run double by Rajai Davis to make it 5-2 but that was sadly as close as they would get.

Varitek and Ortiz had three-run homers in the fifth and the rout was on for the Red Sox.

Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run homer off Lackey in the sixth but it didn't matter.

Boston will go for the sweep and its ninth straight win this afternoon as Jon Lester takes on rookie Kyle Drabek.

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There's only one legit pro team in Detroit and it ain't the Tigers

How shitty is the American League this year? Even in the beginning of June, all signs are pointing to the Red Sox and Yankees being the only two powerhouse teams that will probably meet once again in the ALCS.

The Rangers lead the West and the Tigers lead the Central but as we've seen the last two nights, Detroit is not particularly good. Granted, we have been lucky to miss the rejuvenated Justin Verlander and Edwin Jackson (who's been outstanding this season).

Boston (31-22) won 10-5 last night in a game where Josh Beckett (6-2) no-hit Detroit (28-23) until there were two outs in the seventh and Curtis Granderson (2 hits, 3 RBIs) singled to right.

Beckett's stuff was filthy. He lasted 7.2 innings and gave up only three unearned runs. He allowed just two hits, two walks and struck out nine in a 119-pitch outing that was almost as manly as the picture of him above.

The Red Sox jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first when J.D. Drew hit his 200th home run of his career, a two-run shot that scored Dustin Pedroia (2 runs, 2 hits).

Boston added two more in the fifth including an RBI double by Nick Green.

With six more runs in the eighth, the Sox put it away. Kevin Youkilis (2 hits, walk) started the barrage with an RBI double. Then David Ortiz and Jason Varitek both followed with two-run doubles of their own.

Detroit made it somewhat interesting in the eighth and ninth as they scored five in the eighth and had the tying run on deck in the ninth. Granderson had the big hit, a bases-clearing triple.

Tim Wakefield faces Dontrelle Willis this afternoon as Boston goes for its first road sweep (in a series over two games) of the season, in the last game of this long road trip.