Morning, folks.
I’ll have more as the day goes along about the Red Sox series; however, last night’s loss was painful.
Yes, the Baltimore Orioles have little margin of error to begin with against the Boston Red Sox and that was proven correct yesterday as Jon Lester kept the Orioles at bay offensively.
With the game tied at 2, the Oriole bullpen could not hold off a charge by the Red Sox. Jim Johnson have up a run in the seventh inning off a Dustin Pedroia infield single, and then in the eighth inning reliever Mike Gonzalez came into the game and added more fuel the fire, unable to get anyone out and giving up an RBI-single to Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
After Gonzalez got the hook, Berken came in and gave up a two-run single to Jacoby Ellsbury. That would bury the Orioles for the night.
Brad Bergesen pitched well as he allowed two runs in six innings worh of work. He got off to yet another rough start as Boston’s Adrian Gonzalez plated in both runs — one in the first with a double, and the other in third with a single.
Just a flat night for the Orioles. Jon Lester owned them again.
Derrek Lee — who is starting to heat up at the plate — drove in Brian Roberts to the tie at one in the first inning.
Vladmir Guerrero crushed a solo homer into left center field in the sixth inning to tie the game at two before things fell part.
The Baltimore Orioles are now 10-13 on the year; however, on the bright side, they took two out of three from the Red Sox.
Always a very good thing.
About Mike Gonzalez. He just looks all out of sorts and you have to wonder will he figure it out on the mound sooner rather than later.
I’ll get to the Sox’s Carl Crawford. I’m sure he’s going through a bad slump, but he looks terrible out there. I’m sure he’ll figure things out, but I am shocked as to how bad he’s been. He looks lost and unsure of himself; furthermore, the flair that he played with in Tampa seems to be all but gone with Boston so far.
Finally, it was nice to see Gold-medal Olympian and skier Lindsey Vonn throw out the first pitch last night.
