7 Runs Down in 2nd? No Problem!

Sox: 10 O's: 8

The top of the second inning was brutal, and that's putting it mildly. Penny was on the mound and in need of a GPS to find the strike zone. The O's were filling the bases like it was going out of style and Penny had walked in not only one, but two runs, with an RBI single sandwiched in between. Then, Nick Markakis dealt what at the the time seemed like the death blow, a grand salami to make the score 7-0. 7-0...sound familiar? 2008 ALCS Game 5 anyone? Apparently to the Red Sox, 7-0 is a call to arms. Or, shall we say, a call to bats! In the bottom of that very same inning, the Sox began giving it back to O's starter Jeremy Guthrie. To the tune of 4 runs. The O's scored one more run after Penny's leadoff baserunner in the fourth was plated by a hit surrendered by reliever Manny Delcarmen. MDC allowed no earned runs of his own, however, and kept the O's tally at 8 while the Sox chipped away at the deficit and, on a 2 RBI double by Nick Green, tied the score. Guthrie was history and the game was left to the bullpens. The Sox tacked on two more runs off the O's pen and the Sox pen held the O's in check.

The big bats tonight were JD and J-Bay. Each had a homer. Bay had 3 RBI, with a 2-run blast in the second and a sac fly in the sixth. JD was on base all night, going 2 for 2 with 3 walks, his second hit being a triple. His one blemish on the night was running into an out in the eighth when he was caught trying to steal second. Green pitched in with 2 hits and the aforementioned RBI double. Pedey went 3 for 4, with one of his hits resulting in him sliding into first. Balls were bouncing off of O's infielders (and second base!) like they were made of rubber. The Sox offense, after starting to show some life in Wednesday's Waketacular, went to town on O's pitching and we can only hope this will continue all weekend.

LET'S GO RED SOX!!!!