Game 154: O’s 9 Sox 18

Sox avoid the day night doubleheader sweep with a drubbing of the Orioles. Seems like these doubleheaders almost always result in a split. And right now the Sox would take a split any day of the week and twice on Sundays. Sox put together 20 hits and 8 walks to create 18 runs. Lowrie and Conor Jackson had conventional home runs; Ellsbury hit the unconventional inside the park home run. One of the most exciting plays in baseball.

Lackey benefited from the run support, per his usual. He only went 4 1/3 innings and gave up 8 runs on 11 hits, 2 walks. Fortunately, the bullpen was able to pick up the slack and only gave up 1 run over 3 2/3 innings. And the offense provided the runs for a win.