1.   For the second straight game, a Red Sox reliever gave the ball a one-way ticket out of the park.

2.   The problems began in the bottom of the eighth, when rookie reliever Antonio Osuna gave up a leadoff home run to Jeff Conine.

3.   They obviously love to talk among themselves and the reliever has given them plenty to discuss.

4.   The Atlanta reliever gave them autographs.

5.   The reliever gave his signed spikes to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.