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On the afternoon the Sox tied the Major-League record
with their 455th consecutive sellout crowd at Fenway Park, the Olde
Towne simply didn’t deserve to win.
The Sox offense did jack-squat against Baltimore Orioles reliever Lance
Cormier — an emergency starter in place of Jeremy Guthrie — but finally
utilized some good fortune and a little Fenway magic to secure a 5-4
comeback win.
The victory was secured in the bottom of the ninth when O’s reliever
Jim Miller threw wildly to third base on a Jacoby Ellsbury sacrifice
bunt attempt in a 4-4 ballgame. Alex Cora scored from second base when
the Miller’s wild toss rolled into left field.
“To pull it off the way we did today — after falling behind — I can’t
ask for more than that,” said Sox starter Daisuke Matsuzaka, who
remains unbeaten in his last seven starts. “Today, we got the win, and
I just want to thank the guys in the field.”
The first six-and-a-half innings were essentially a Sox sleepwalk as
the O’s totaled four runs against Matsuzaka, and needed to simply get
through three more innings of scoreless baseball.
It might have sounded simple, but the execution turned out to be much more difficult for a depleted O’s bullpen.
As has been the case on several occasions this season, second baseman
Dustin Pedroia jumpstarted a flat-line Boston offense. With one down in
the seventh, Pedroia spanked a Jamie Walker offering into the Green
Monster seats, and there was a tiny spark of life within the Sox dugout.
With two down, Walker plunked Jason Bay, and then walked Jason Varitek
to add a little fuel to Boston’s comeback fire. Cora dropped a bunt
single down the third-base line that loaded the bases, and Baltimore
manager Gary Tremblay mercifully pulled Walker from the game.
A Coco Crisp walk forced in Bay and cut the O’s lead to 4-2, a course of action that set the scene for the Sox in the bottom of the eighth. A David Ortiz walk and Pedroia double put runners on second and third, and new guy Mark Kotsay slammed a triple off the center-field wall that tied up the game — and set up Jacoby Ellsbury’s heroics.
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