this game anyway. Josh Beckett started, and like Lowell, was just coming off the DL. He allowed no runs in his five innings of work, striking out seven, and giving up just four walks. The guys who followed him were just as good. Manny Delcarmen pitched two innings, giving up nothing and striking out three. Justin Masterson followed with a scoreless frame (although he walked two). The Rangers finally got to a Sox pitcher, that being Hideki Okajima when he gave up two hits and a walk. That was a Nelson Cruz single which plated German Duran.
Bummer the Rangers lost. While the Sox are probably going to make the playoffs as the wild card, but it would have been nice for the Rangers to sweep the Red SoxGeorgians voted three to one on Tuesday to keep the year-old state flag, seeking in a nonbinding referendum to lay to rest a race-tinged issue that has roiled the state for years.

The winning flag has been flying since the Legislature adopted it last year. It is based on older Georgia flags and the first official flag of the Confederacy, the Stars and Bars, but avoids the X on a red background associated with the Confederate battle flag, which was in a flag adopted by the Legislature in 1956.

The flag rejected Tuesday bore a miniature of the battle flag, as well as miniatures of two American flags and two earlier Georgia flags and the state seal displayed prominently on a field of blue. It replaced the 1956 flag in