It's a slogan that would be rather appropriate for the Red Sox right now. In a week that saw them lose two starters to the disabled list and watch another, current American League ERA leader Josh Beckett, leave a game with neck stiffness, they have piled on win after win, most in dramatic fashion.
The latest effort was a 4-3 walk-off victory over the Detroit Tigers on Thursday night. It extended Boston's winning streak to a season-high six games, gave the club a 6-1 record in its last seven one-run games and moved it within 1 1/2 games of first place in the American League East.
Carl Crawford had the game-winner, his third of the month, touching off a scene that has become all too familiar at Fenway Park in recent days, the entire team spilling from the dugout to celebrate.
Beckett was not part of the scrum. He left after throwing only 83 pitches in six innings, outdueling Tigers ace Justin Verlander to that point but causing more trepidation with his sudden departure.
Already, the organization had scrambled to make a pair of moves designed to bolster the pitching depth in the minors and to improve the bullpen, both completed during the game itself.
Beckett had no clue of that at the time. He just knew he couldn't take any chances with the way the week has gone for the rotation.
"It never would loosen up," Beckett said of the neck. "I don't think it's anything serious at all. We had to be cautious, especially with the situation we're in right now with starters."
The right-hander, who allowed a run on five hits in his six innings of work, said he expects to be just fine.
The next blow came when Daniel Bard, normally so reliable, gave up back-to-back solo homers to begin the eighth inning. A 3-1 lead was washed away in an instant on another cold, wet night at Fenway Park.
But while the weather and the pitching concerns seem to have kept a cloud over the Red Sox for almost a week straight, the team's ability to battle back and score late has made all the negatives nothing more than an afterthought.
There was the rally from a 6-0 deficit to beat Baltimore on Monday. Jarrod Saltalamacchia's RBI double in the bottom of the eighth on Wednesday proved to be the difference in a 1-0 classic. And the squad was undaunted in the wake of Bard's first blown save of the year, loading the bases with nobody out in the bottom of the ninth.
Still, there was one more hit coming.
Jed Lowrie blooped a ball into shallow left the fell over the head of shortstop Jhonny Peralta and had many in the park thinking game-winning hit. But left fielder Andy Dirks, already playing in, pounced on the ball and fired a strike to home plate for an extremely rare 7-2 force out. It gave the Tigers a slight chance of escaping the jam and provided one more shot that the Red Sox had to deflect.
When Crawford followed by placing a drive to center got over the head of a drawn-in Austin Jackson, another storm had been weathered.
Lowrie's reaction to the sequence did well to sum up the roller coaster of emotions the club has been on through this six-game run.
"It was a little disappointing [when Detroit got the force at home]," Lowrie said. "At the same time, it was down, then up. At the end of the day we got the result we wanted."
That's been the theme this week. First there's a negative off the field, then a positive on it. Despite the baseball gods' best effort to undermine the Red Sox, they're still tickin'.
