Updates: Red Sox Vs. Mariners

10:20 Pedroia grounds out hard to third. Mariners win 7-6 in 11 innings. Chris Jakubauskas moves to 5-5 and Ramirez goes to 5-2.

10:18 JD Drew base hit. Whoever is left at Fenway is yelling right now.

Lowe, who is topping out at 99 mph on the gun, will get a talk from Mariners pitching coach Rick Adair. Dustin Pedroia will step in. Hideki Okajima will warm just in case.

Bottom 11, 10:15 There is life! After a seven-pitch and six-pitch at-bat from Ellsbury and Green respectively, George Kottaras cranks his first major league home run well over the bullpen. Fans were leaving before this. 7-6, Mariners, and JD Drew will try to rally with no outs to spare.

Top 11, 10:00 Rob Johnson's third double of the night (really! this really happened!) scores Franklin Gutierrez and Ryan Langerhans and the Mariners pull ahead, 7-5. The Sox will try to counter with Ellsbury, Green and Kottaras (pinch hitters aside) against Mark Lowe to try to keep the game alive.

That double dragged Johnson over the Mendoza Line, by the way.

End of 10, 9:50 Three groundouts and we'll see an 11th inning. These teams clearly have no regard for the fact that they have to play more baseball in 15 hours.

Ramon Ramirez, who has given up no runs on three hits in his last six appearances, will enter for Papelbon.

Middle 10, 9:42 Papelbon blows a fastball by Griffey and Kottaras snags Lopez trying to take second. Strike 'em out, throw 'em out to end the inning. The Sox can win it in the 10th with Ortiz, Bay and Kotsay.

Top 10, 9:35 Extras. Papelbon. That's all you need to know.

Middle 9, 9:30 Manny Delcarmen blows through the back end of the Mariners order and gets Ichiro to ground out routinely to second. One-two-three and the Sox have a chance to win it in the bottom half from the top of their order.

Top 9, 9:24 Kottaras flies out, so Wakefield won't get his 11th win of the year tonight, but he won't get his fourth loss either. The closed book on Wakefield: 8 IP, 10 H, 5 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 2 HR. 112 pitches, 81 strikes. He's a knuckleballer who has given up two walks in his last four outings combined. Think about that.

Manny Delcarmen will enter in the ninth.

Bottom 8, 9:20 Who knew David Ortiz's successor as Mr. Clutch would be a 29-year-old former minor league utility man. Nick Green doubles high off the left field wall and drives in Jason Bay and Mark Kotsay. It's now 5-5, and the Sox are rallying with two down.

Middle 8, 9:05 The book is closed on King Felix "Peanut Butter Jonkheer" Hernandez: 7 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 7 K. After a shaky start, he turns in a better-than-solid outing and leaves in line for his ninth win.

Top 8, 9:01 Wakefield gives up a blast over the Monster to Jose Lopez. If he's going to pick up his 11th win tonight, it's going to take real output from one of these half-rallies the Red Sox have been threatening. 5-3, Mariners.

End of 7, 8:56 After a JD Drew homer, the Sox are within one. He's rewarding a very antsy Fenway crowd tonight. I guess this is what happens when it doesn't rain all the time. 4-3, Mariners.

Top 7, 8:50 A Ronny Cedeno single is the only blemish on three otherwise perfect Wakefield innings. He's never been this good this deep into the season. It's safe to say that at this point.

Bottom 6, 8:44 The Sox create an insta-pop two-out rally. Mark Kotsay knocks a double and Jacoby Ellsbury legs out an infield single and the fans are reignited. But Nick Green goes down looking to end the inning. Still 4-2, M's.

So, Felix Hernandez nickname update: He will not go away jam-free! Felix "Peanut Butter" Hernandez.

8:27 FYI, just noticed that the official scorer of this game is named Chaz Scoggins. Awesome.

End of 5, 8:23 The fifth went entirely in order. You might want to buy a paper tomorrow if you want to know about "Zupa," the interferee, who we'll all feel bad for once he finally gets off his cell phone. Buy a newspaper! Save an amendment!

Top 4, 8:03 Nice Fenway moment: a quarter of the stadium is chanting "all your fault!" to a fan who intruded on Kevin Youkilis' would-be catch by the Mariner dugout. Ryan Langerhans, the beneficiary with a new best friend, would go on to double. Rob Johnson would double after that, scoring Langerhans. More chants. Then Ronny Cedeno homered to where the monster meets the camera scaffolding, one of the deepest and highest parts of the park. And you guessed it: more chanting. 4-2, Mariners.

Bottom 3, 7:56 Well, looks like Felix Hernandez has Officially Settled Down. A grindout, a popout and a strikeout against the meat of the Sox order and this half-inning was as short as this sentence. Looks like it's safe to throw out the "King Felix? More like Jonkheer Felix, if you ask me" joke that was so readily cooking.

Top 3, 7:51 Wakefield, who is still jamming hitters left and right (he ended the inning on back-to-back knuckled pop-ups), gets out of a mini-jam in the third with only one run surrendered. The only truly well-hit ball was Rob Johnson's leadoff double to left. A Russell Branyan single scored him two batters later. Still, the knuckleball is dancing like it's Patrick Swayze tonight and Hernandez has yet to settle down. 2-1, Red Sox.

Bottom 2, 7:38 The Sox started to rally again with a Nick Green double and a George Kottaras base knock, but Hernandez started fooling the Sox order the second time around. Drew and Pedroia struck out consecutively to end the inning. Hernandez isn't a get-out-of-jams pitcher, so this start is altogether weird. He has a 12.15 ERA with runners in scoring position and two out this year.

End of 1, 7:23 Big Sox rally opened up by Jason "Slump No Longer" Bay. He was 0-for-17 before driving in Dustin Pedroia with a ground rule double to the tunnel in right. David Ortiz, who is in the cleanup spot, scored on a wild pitch in the next at-bat. A rare tough start for King Felix, who has absolutely earned the faux nobility so far this year. 2-0, Red Sox.

7:22 Is there a better cultural comparison, anyway, for Tim Wakefield's darkhorse All-Star bid than to Neil Young's career as currently constituted? He's not the sexiest pick in the world (the sexiest All-Star pick in the world right now would probably be Megan Fox, regardless of sense), anyone in a small keeper fantasy league is quietly crying staring at him on someone else's team, and it's probably infeasible to think he's hitting his ceiling at 42.

He's "so uncool he's cool" -- this is what Chuck Klosterman said about Neil Diamond, too -- and this works. Just like you want to sing Sweet Caroline, there will be fans trying to vote this guy in because they can't help it.

Middle 1, 7:15: Tim Wakefield looks as workmanlike as ever in the first. A wall-scraping double barely in play from Jose Lopez broke up an otherwise perfect inning. Remember, Wakefield is going for a league best 11th win tonight. Terry Francona called him "a consistent pitcher with an inconsistent pitch" earlier, which is probably better lyricism than anything you'll hear from Neil Diamond tomorrow night.