Final Score: Boston Red Sox 13, Baltimore Orioles 4You gotta give it to those Orioles: they don't give up easily. After several innings of Steve "The Nibbler" Trachsel and his strange ability to dance around a predominance of walks, the Sox finally drew first blood with some small ball success in the fourth inning, opened a major chink in the fifth thanks to an error and some doubles - then saw the lead evaporate thanks to a classic Schilling meltdown on a brace of singles and a mistake by Javier Lopez. All of the sudden, a game that had started to move out of Orioles reach was anyone's contest; the starters removed, the tenacious fight in the eyes of every batter and every relief arm...
Who am I kidding? Perhaps stung by the offensive failure of yesterday's lost, the Sox turned a game that had run close through six into a blowout by eight, scoring eight runs in two innings thanks to single after single after single and a bit more capitalization on all of the walks (seven today, fifteen for the series) the O's have handed out in this series. Was it pretty? Blowouts rarely are. Was it necessary? You betcha. The Sox have displayed sheer 0wn4g3 over the mix of Baltimoreans who have had the misfortune to play the Olde Towne Team over the past two years and there's no reason why the 2007 club shouldn't continue the trend. Series clincher on Mother's Day? Sounds like a blast.
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