Game 41: O's 7 Sox 8

Phew, finally caught up. It's been cold and wet in Boston this week so yesterday's game was rained out (funny, it's been beautiful here in the NW; who would have thunk it?). Sox won an exciting game to keep the win streak alive.

We got Dice-BB for this game and were, as a result, in a 6-0 hole early. Matsuzaka gave up 5 runs in 4 1/3 innings on 5 hits, 7 BBs (!), and only 2 Ks. For the most part the O's didn't seem to hit the ball hard (with the exception of Vlad Guerrero) but you don't really need to with so many free passes. Atchison got knocked around a little (he was called up with Lackey headed to the DL) but Aceves did a great job of eating three inings to keep the game close.

On the hitting side, the Sox couldn't get anything going against starter Tillman but started the comeback in the 6th with a 5 run inning. In the bottom of the ninth, after an Ellsbury BB, Pedroia worked a one-out walk out of an 0-2 count in a 10 pitch AB to keep the inning alive. Adrian Gonzalez came up and you just knew the game was over. Two run double off the Monster, game over, Sox win. Wow.