Red Sox 4, Rays 3: Jonathan Papelbon allowed a walk and a single to open the ninth, putting runners at first and third, but then proceeded to throw gas right by Carlos Pena, B.J. Upton (who sucks) and Carl Crawford. The win gave Boston their first series victory of the season over the Rays (Tampa took the first two sets). Big Papi remains homerless with a humorous batting average of .224.

Mets 8, Pirates 4: The Mets have ripped off seven straight and quite suddenly everything is perfect in Queens, even the town bully digs them. Beltrán had 2 RBI as he continues to rake while the rest of big bats seem to be coming to life, except of course when Santana pitches.

Mariners 5, Twins 3: Twins reliever José Mijares served up a two-run shot to Ken Griffey, kickstarting a four-run eighth and spoiling a great start by Nick Blackburn, who had gone seven scoreless innings. The heartless Griffey had this to say of his home run: “It’s a cheap way of me not buying my mom a gift.€

Cardinals 8, Reds 7: Pujols, Bruce, Votto, Micah Owings and Jerry Hairston Jr. all homered. Cincinnati’s Adam Rosales also homered and impressively rounded the bases in roughly seven seconds. The Cards overcame Ryan Franklin blowing a two-run lead in the ninth (see Hairston & Owings), to win it in the 10th on a Colby Rasmus RBI double.

Giants 7, Dodgers 5: The Dodgers have lost three of four without Manny, but put this one on fellow druggie Guillermo Mota, who gave up six hits and three runs in the 12th and 13th innings.

Rangers 7, White Sox 1: In his last two starts Vicente Padilla has thrown a total of 15 innings and given up just one run. Even more impressive, the nutjob has thrown zero punches. Healthy Hank Blalock hit two homers.

And here’s Aubrey Huff’s home run celebration yesterday where he mocked Joba’s fist pump (no embed code), both when he rounded first and after crossing home plate. Would actually love to see players doing this regularly to Joba, Joel Zumaya, Papelbon and renowned mound karate champ, K-Rod.

In closing, one of the greatest mascot headbutts of all time: