Eric Gagne became famous in L.A. for his Game Over slogan (which was more than appropriate considering he had 84 straight saves) and after proving he is healthy, was traded to the Red Sox at the deadline.

Now, Boston boasts the best back end of a bullpen in this writer's honest opinion.

While Minnesota has Juan Rincon, Pat Neshek and Joe Nathan and the Angels have Justin Speier, Scot Shields and Francisco Rodriguez, Boston has a seventh inning guy in Hideki Okajima, whose ERA coming into the game was 1.26, an eighth inning guy in Gagne, who is still adjusting to his role, but is better than 90 percent of other team's closers and then a young, fireballing closer in Jonathan Papelbon who is perhaps the game's best closer right now (definitely top five, maybe top three at the very least).

Saying all that, Okajima pitched a perfect seventh and despite allowing two hits in the eighth, he effectively handed the ball to Papelbon, who got the final out as the Sox lead 7-4 heading to the bottom of the eighth.

Seemingly any lead handed to those guys is safe. And it looks like this one is, too.

Good news for Angels fans - Casey Kotchman has a career-high four hits, or as many cups of coffee now running through my system.