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The 7th Inning Stretch

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The kids are all right. More than all right, they were pretty brilliant last night. Hansen, Papelbon - I’ve started espousing this theory that the way to judge Sox relievers is to look at the last letter of their names - those ending in “-n” (throw in Delcarmen and Timlin) give me less heart trouble that those ending in “-z” or “-e” this season. Hey, they always say evaluating relievers is a crapshoot - it’s about as good a method as any. But then Lopez was brilliant in getting Thome out.