| It takes 11 innings, but the Sox squeak by the Orioles on a JD Drew walk-off groundout, of all things! First things first, though. It didn't look good at first when Baltimore got 3 runs of of Jon Lester in the 4th and had a 4-1 lead into the 8th inning. But then, the Red Sox bats come alive off of relievers Chad Bradford and George Sherrill for three runs in the bottom of the 8th to tie the game at 4. It stayes tied until the bottom of the 11th, when Jacoby Ellsbury singles and steals second. Dustin Pedroia singles and Ellsbury only gets as far as third. JD Drew hits the previously mentioned grounder to second with the infield playing in. Second baseman Brian Roberts doesn't even try to throw home, going to first instead to get Drew and Ellsbury trots home easily with the winning run. I still don't know why Roberts didn't throw home to try to get Ellsbury, seems really weird to me. Maybe he forgot that the run would win the game. This Sox/O's series also featured the top two men in the batting race right now, Jacoby Ellsbury and Nick Markakis. Markakis goes 5 for 13 in the series while Ellsbury goes only 3 for 16. That puts Markakis on top of the AL batting leaderboard now, .357 to Ellsbury's .351. The 8th inning for the Red Sox, which ties the game at the time: *** BOTTOM OF INNING 8 *** SUBSTITUTE P - Chad Bradford 0 M.Ramirez 1- 7 11 4 Double b-2 0 2 M.Lowell 2- 7 1 3 Double 2-H b-2 SUBSTITUTE P - George Sherrill 0 2 K.Youkilis 3- 8 3 Double 2-H b-2 0 2 C.Crisp 1- 5 3 Strike Out b-0 1 2 J.Lugo 3- 4 5 Walk b-1 SUBSTITUTE PH- Sean Casey 1 12 S.Casey 4- 5 3 Strike Out b-0 2 12 J.Ellsbury 1- 7 10 3 Single 2-H 1-2 b-1 SUBSTITUTE P - Dennis Sarfate 2 12 D.Pedroia 5- 5 4 Strike Out b-0 |
Strat-O-Matic Report
BOXSCORE: 2008 Baltimore Orioles At 2008 Boston Red Sox 6/12/2008
Orioles AB R H RBI AVG Red Sox AB R H RBI AVG
B.Roberts 2B 4 0 1 0 .319 J.Ellsbury LF 6 1 2 1 .351
M.Mora 3B 3 1 1 0 .240 D.Pedroia 2B 5 0 2 1 .291
N.Markakis RF 5 2 2 1 .357 J.Drew RF 5 0 0 1 .284
K.Millar 1B 4 0 1 0 .256 M.Ramirez DH 5 1 1 0 .301
A.Huff DH 5 1 0 1 .284 M.Lowell 3B 5 1 2 1 .238
R.Hernandez C 4 0 1 1 .228 K.Youkilis 1B 5 1 2 1 .341
A.Jones CF 4 0 1 1 .293 C.Crisp CF 4 0 0 0 .301
J.Payton LF 4 0 0 0 .288 J.Lugo SS 4 1 2 0 .325
A.Cintron SS 4 0 0 0 .205 K.Cash C 3 0 1 0 .169
A-S.Casey PH 1 0 0 0 .368
B-J.Varitek C 1 0 0 0 .199
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Totals 37 4 7 4 Totals 44 5 12 5
A-Pinch Hit For Cash In 8th Inning
B-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Casey In 9th Inning
Orioles......... 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 4 7 1
Red Sox......... 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 - 5 12 0
Orioles (27-39) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Guthrie 7 6 1 1 3 3 0 107 3.12
C.Bradford 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 7 3.12
G.Sherrill BS(6th) 0 2/3 2 1 1 1 2 0 17 4.85
D.Sarfate LOSS(2-1) 2 2/3 2 1 1 0 3 0 47 4.15
M.Albers 0 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 4.84
Totals 10 2/3 12 5 5 4 8 0
Red Sox (38-31) IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Lester 6 2/3 6 4 4 4 2 0 101 4.15
C.Hansen 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3.14
H.Okajima 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 0 17 4.91
M.Delcarmen WIN(4-2) 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 26 3.03
Totals 11 7 4 4 4 5 0
ATTENDANCE- 38,722 DATE- Thursday, June 12th 2008 TIME- Night WEATHER- Average
UMPIRES- Gary Cederstrom, Fieldin Culbreth, Jim Reynolds, Tim Timmons
T- 4:03
LEFT ON BASE- Orioles: 5 Red Sox:11
DOUBLE PLAYS- Orioles: 1 Red Sox: 1
ERRORS- A.Cintron
DOUBLES- B.Roberts(26th), N.Markakis-2(30th), A.Jones(13th), D.Pedroia(18th),
M.Ramirez(11th), M.Lowell(8th), K.Youkilis(17th), J.Lugo(19th)
STOLEN BASES- J.Ellsbury(18th)
SACRIFICE FLIES- R.Hernandez
WALKS- B.Roberts, M.Mora-2, K.Millar, D.Pedroia, J.Drew, C.Crisp, J.Lugo
STRIKE OUTS- B.Roberts, N.Markakis, A.Huff, R.Hernandez, A.Jones, D.Pedroia,
J.Drew, M.Ramirez-2, C.Crisp, K.Cash-2, S.Casey
GIDP- N.Markakis, J.Drew
WEB GEMS- Top 5th: J.D. Drew robbed Alex Cintron of an extra base hit.
Mike Lowell had 2 base hits as the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles
in 11 innings by a score of 5 to 4.
The score was knotted at 4 after nine innings. Boston won it in the 11th
inning. After an out was recorded, Jacoby Ellsbury slapped a single.
Ellsbury took his lead and swiped second. Dustin Pedroia then banged out a
single. J.D. Drew was up next and he would ground out giving Boston the
victory as 38,722 happy fans celebrated wildly. Boston had 12 hits overall,
while Baltimore had 7.
The victory went to Manny Delcarmen(4-2) who went 2 innings, allowing no runs.
Dennis Sarfate(2-1) took the loss in relief. He gave up 2 hits and no walks
in 2 and 2/3 innings.
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