Bartolo Colon continues to quietly roll along, although not quite as smoothly as he had been doing. He went over six innings today, throwing one hundred and three pitches. He allowed three runs on seven hits (one of the runners he allowed to reach before he departed later came around to score.) He struck out five hitters and walked two. The Orioles were hitting him hard, though-he gave up two doubles and a homerun. He was allowed to come back out for the seventh inning but he looked absolutely disgusted with himself after he hit the first batter and walked the second. They banged the gong at that point and he was done.
Lopez was brought in to finish off the inning. He seemed to be having trouble throwing strikes but got lucky when the first batter he faced grounded into a double play (Lugo to Pedroia to Youkilis) but the first runner moved over to third. Millar got a single and an RBI as the runner on third came around to score. He then gave up another single before getting the last batter to fly out.
Hansen pitched the eighth inning and did a really good job of it. He needed only eight pitches to get his three outs. He got Jay Payton to strike out on three pitches. The second batter struck out after four pitches and the last batter took a chance, swung at the first pitch and grounded out to second.
The last pitcher of the game was Manny Del. He got a fly out from the first batter, a ground out from the second batter, he gave up a single to the third batter, but got Millar to pop out to Varitek to end the game.
The Red Sox offense showed up to this game in a big way. The Orioles pitching didn't have a 1-2-3 inning until the sixth inning (they also had 1-2-3 innings in the eighth and ninth.) Ellsbury started off the first inning by getting a single off the second pitch he saw (he was later caught stealing.) Youkilis also had a single in the inning but couldn't make anything of it because Manny flew out to center.
Lowell shot a double to right to open the second inning. Varitek got a basehit and moved Lowell over to third. Drew hit a sacrifice fly to bring in Lowell for the first Red Sox run. Bailey struck out for the second out (it very easily could have been a walk instead.) Lugo had a single but Ellsbury struck out to end the inning.
In the third inning, Pedroia and Youkilis both got singles to start things off. With Youkilis on first and Pedroia on third, Manny hit a double that brought in Pedroia for the second run. Lowell hit a sacrifice fly to move Manny to third and to bring in Youkilis for the third run. Varitek lined out but Drew hit a single that brought in Manny for the fourth run. Bailey walked but Lugo popped out to end the inning.
In the fourth inning, Ellsbury bunted his way onto first but was knocked out when Youkilis hit into a fielder's choice, after Pedroia flew out. Manny then hit number 501 to right to bring in runs five and six. Lowell got his own homerun for run seven.
The Sox didn't score again until the seventh inning. After Varitek grounded out, Drew hit a homerun to right to give the Sox eight runs. Coco ran for Bailey after he drew a walk. Lugo grounded out and Coco moved to second. Coco came around to score on a single by Ellsbury for the ninth run.
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