Sox: 3 O's: 7
Young Buch made his return to the bigs with a shaky outing and the Red Sox were on the unfortunate end of some, to put it politely, questionable umpiring. Buch couldn't make peace with the strike zone for most of the five-inning affair and ended up walking five and striking out six. The Sox offense was hampered by a godawful call at first where Lugo's foot landed on the bag before the ball was in Burres's glove. Memo to umps: The BALL has to be in the GLOVE of the guy covering first for the runner to be out. Lugo was SAFE! The offensive extravaganza of Wednesday night was not to be repeated tonight, with the Sox once again scuffling with RISP, even though they outhit the O's 8 to 7. The O's capitalized on the opportunities the Sox were tossing their way via the free ride to first, making those 4-ball counts as costly as filling up the gas tank of an SUV. Lopez and Aardsma kept the birdie bats at bay for two innings, but Delcarmen and then Timlin came in and the black-and-orange were back on the bases like they'd never left. Tonight's loss has silver lining: The Yanks and the Rays also lost. Are the newfound titans of the Trop starting to...hit the skids?
Wake takes the mound tomorrow and my fingers are crossed that gives the Baltimore bats some knuckleball sandwiches. He's facing Radhames Liz, of the 5.94 ERA. Sox bats should be able to knock this guy around...
LET'S GO RED SOX!!!
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