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Late Friday -- or is that early Saturday? -- Sox notes

BY SEAN McADAM
Journal Sports Writer

BOSTON -- Quick notes from last night's Red Sox win over Tampa Bay:

-- The seven runs scored by the Sox were their most since April 22, spanning eight games. Before Friday night, they had scored two runs or fewer in each of the previous five games.

-- The five-run fourth matched their total for the previous 53 innings combined.

-- In getting the win, Clay Buchholz became the first Sox starter since April 21 to claim a victory. Over the last six games, Sox starters have a 1.49 ERA.

-- Exlcuding a poor start against the Yankees in New York, Buchholz has a 2.08 ERA this season. In 56 2/3 major-league innings, Buchholz has 55 strikeouts and has struck out five or more hitters in 7 of his first 10 major-league appearances.

-- The Sox are 12-2 this season when Jacoby Ellsbury scores at least one run.

-- Ellsbury added another stolen base, making him successful in all 18 tries in his major-league career, a team record for a rookie.

-- Dustin Pedroia broke out of a slump with a three-hit night. He had been 1-for-20 in the last five games. His run-scoring double in the third was his first extra-base hit in the last eight games.

-- Of Brandon Moss' 13 career hits in the big leagues, five have been for extra bases.

-- For the second time this season, Moss has an assist and a homer in the same game. He also did so March 25, the season opener, in Tokyo. Before Moss, the last Red Sox rookie outfielder to have an assist and a homer in the same game was Trot Nixon, who did so June 1, 1999.

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