| Starting pitcher John Lackey, pitching on three-days' rest, was replaced by Scot Shields with two outs in the sixth, and Shields got out of the inning. |
| Ian Kinsler hit the first pitch thrown by John Lackey into the left-field seats for his sixth homer this season, and 28th career leadoff shot. |
| Assuming Jarrod Washburn, Ramon Ortiz, John Lackey, and Aaron Sele stay around, it could be quite a race for the fifth spot. |
| He disdains capitalism and free trade, and throughout the campaign accused Yushchenko of being a running-dog lackey of the Yankee imperialists. |
| Lackey is a former professional ballet dancer turned grassroots activist, while Monteagudo is a practising psychiatrist who grew up in poverty. |
| If he played along, Lackey wondered, might Scruggs try to hold it over him somehow? |
