Smile! Sox Lead By 4 1/2 Games!

Jake Peavy beat his old team, the Chicago White Sox 7-2 while Oakland was taking down the Tampa Bay Rays 2-1 out west. For Sox fans that represents a perfect Saturday night.

At Fenway, Peavy went seven innings, giving up two runs and just 5 hits.

Jacoby Ellsbury had three hits. Six other players had two hits each, including 20-year-old rookie Xander Bogaerts.

In Oakland, the A's were beating the Rays for a second straight time, 2-1. Tampa is struggling having lost 6 of the 7 games.

Check out the standings as we hit September 1st.......

American League
East
Team	W	L	Pct	GB	Home	Road	East	Central	West	Last 10	Streak
Boston	81	56	.591	-	44 - 24	37 - 32	32 - 25	16 - 14	20 - 12	7 - 3	W 2
Tampa Bay	75	59	.560	4.5	44 - 26	31 - 33	34 - 29	17 - 13	12 - 9	3 - 7	L 3
NY Yankees	72	63	.533	8	40 - 27	32 - 36	32 - 26	19 - 11	14 - 16	6 - 4	W 2
Baltimore	71	63	.530	8.5	38 - 29	33 - 34	26 - 29	13 - 13	21 - 12	4 - 6	L 2
Toronto	62	74	.456	18.5	35 - 33	27 - 41	23 - 38	13 - 14	17 - 14	5 - 5	W 3
Central
Team	W	L	Pct	GB	Home	Road	East	Central	West	Last 10	Streak
Detroit	80	56	.588	-	44 - 26	36 - 30	16 - 13	38 - 22	14 - 16	6 - 4	W 3
Cleveland	71	64	.526	8.5	40 - 26	31 - 38	10 - 20	31 - 28	21 - 8	4 - 6	L 5
Kansas City	69	66	.511	10.5	35 - 33	34 - 33	18 - 15	34 - 26	8 - 14	5 - 5	L 2
Minnesota	58	76	.433	21	28 - 36	30 - 40	9 - 18	27 - 39	14 - 7	3 - 7	L 1
Chi White Sox	56	78	.418	23	32 - 34	24 - 44	12 - 12	21 - 36	15 - 18	6 - 4	L 2
West
Team	W	L	Pct	GB	Home	Road	East	Central	West	Last 10	Streak
Texas	79	56	.585	-	39 - 28	40 - 28	13 - 17	12 - 16	44 - 16	7 - 3	W 1
Oakland	77	58	.570	2	41 - 25	36 - 33	16 - 15	16 - 11	32 - 25	6 - 4	W 2
LA Angels	62	72	.463	16.5	31 - 37	31 - 35	13 - 14	18 - 13	22 - 35	7 - 3	W 3
Seattle	62	73	.459	17	31 - 38	31 - 35	12 - 17	9 - 14	34 - 32	4 - 6	W 3
Houston	44	91	.326	35	21 - 47	23 - 44	9 - 21	8 - 18	19 - 43	3 - 7	L 5

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