TNK - RED SOX FRANCHISE
BOSTON RED SOX @ BALTIMORE ORIOLES
GAME #44 of the season (Pitching Matchup - Felix Doubront vs. Brian Matusz)
The Red Sox and Orioles play the second game of this series as a pair of young lefties take the mound with Felix Doubront getting the ball for Boston against Brian Matusz for Baltimore. The Red Sox came out swinging the bats in the top of the 1st as Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz singled with one out and Adrian Gonzalez got the start in RF and continued to swing a hot stick as he doubled into the gap to score Pedroia with the games 1st run as Boston took a 1-0 lead. Kevin Youkilis was up next and he hit his 3rd HR in the last two games as he took a fastball from Matusz the opposite way for a 3-run HR to give the Sox an early 4-0 lead. Chris Davis got the Orioles on the board with two gone in the bottom of the 2nd inning with a solo HR to CF to cut the Boston lead to 4-1. The Orioles threatened in the bottom of the 3rd but Doubront got Nick Markakis to ground out to end the inning and strand a runner at 3rd base as we would head to the 4th inning with Boston on top 4-1. Kevin Youkilis remained red hot as he led off the top of the 4th with a double down the LF line and he moved up to 3rd as he tagged on a sac fly to deep CF by Middlebrooks. Cody Ross hit an RBI single to LF to score Youkilis and extend the Sox lead to 5-1. Doubront got Davis to ground out to end the 4th inning and we would head to the 5th with the Red Sox in control with a 5-1 lead. Both Matusz and Doubront got through the 5th inning unscathed and we would move along to the 6th inning. Darren O'Day pitched a 1-2-3 top of the 6th for Baltimore. Doubront cruised through the bottom of the 6th and we would go to the 7th inning with Boston still leading 5-1. Troy Patton came in to pitch the top of the 7th for the O's and retired the side in order. Doubront was mowing the Orioles down and recorded the 1st two outs of the 7th before Chris Davis launched his 2nd solo HR of the game to make it 5-2. Doubront got Wilson Betemit to ground out to Middlebrooks at 3rd to end the inning and we would go to the 8th inning with the Red Sox leading 5-2. Kevin Gregg pitched the top of the 8th for Baltimore. Vicente Padilla took over on the mound for Doubront to begin the bottom of the 8th for Boston and surrendered a leadoff single to Wieters but rebounded to get Endy Chavez to hit into a tailor made 6-4-3 double play. Padilla struck out Robert Andino looking to end the inning and send it to the 9th inning. Kevin Gregg pitched a 1-2-3 top of the 9th and the Orioles would come to bat trailing by 3 runs. Bobby Valentine would stick with Padilla to begin the bottom of the 9th with a 3 run lead as his closer Alfredo Aceves was ready in the pen but has been unsed heavily lately and could use the rest. Padilla struck out markakis for the 1st out and then allowed a single to Mark Reynolds. Adam Jones would fly out to Byrd in CF for the 2nd out and the Orioles were down to their final out. JJ Hardy came up and he doubled to LF to keep the Orioles alive and the tying run would come to the plate in Chris Davis who already had 2 HRs in the game. Bobby Valentine came out and made the move to his closer looking for one out to end the game as Aceves made his way in. Davis hit a groundball up the middle but Dstin Pedroia was there to make the play and throw to Youkilis at 1st for the final out as the Red Sox hold on for a 5-2 victory and have taken the first two games of the series.
* Dustin Pedroia returned to the lineup after missing 3 games with an injury and went 1 for 3
* Kevin Youkilis went 2 for 3 with a HR, a double, 3 RBI and 2 runs scored. Youkilis has been on fire through the first two games of this series going 6 for 10 with 3 HR, 2 Doubles, 6 RBI and 5 runs scored.
* Cody Ross was injured late in the game and has been placed on the 15-Day DL with a Pulled Hamstring. The Red Sox called up OF Daniel Nava from AAA Pawtucket to take Ross spot on the roster.
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link href="http://dynasties.operationsports.com/css/osdyn.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td align="center" colspan="13">Boston Red Sox at Baltimore Orioles</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="40%">May 22, 2012</td><td align="right" width="5%">1</td><td align="right" width="5%">2</td><td align="right" width="5%">3</td><td align="right" width="5%">4</td><td align="right" width="5%">5</td><td align="right" width="5%">6</td><td align="right" width="5%">7</td><td align="right" width="5%">8</td><td align="right" width="5%">9</td><td align="right" width="5%">R</td><td align="right" width="5%">H</td><td align="right" width="5%">E</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Boston (26-18)</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">5</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Baltimore (21-23)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" colspan="13"><b>W:</b> Felix Doubront (3-3) <b>L:</b> Brian Matusz (2-4) <b>S:</b> Alfredo Aceves (14)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td colspan="5">Scoring Summary</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td colspan="3" width="84%">SCORING DETAILS</td><td align="right" width="8%">BOS</td><td align="right" width="8%">BAL</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">1</td><td width="70%">Adrian Gonzalez doubled to LF (Pedroia scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">1</td><td width="70%">Kevin Youkilis 3-run HR to RF (Ortiz & Gonzalez score)</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BAL</td><td align="center" width="7%">2</td><td width="70%">Chris Davis solo HR to CF </td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">4</td><td width="70%">Cody Ross singled to LF (Youkilis scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">5</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BAL</td><td align="center" width="7%">7</td><td width="70%">Chris Davis solo HR to RF</td><td align="right" width="8%">5</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#EE1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Gonzalez (12), Youkilis (5)<br /><b>HR:</b> Youkilis (10)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Gonzalez (37), Youkilis 3 (27), Ross (11)<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Gonzalez, Byrd</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#F47D31" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Baltimore Orioles</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Hardy (8)<br /><b>HR:</b> Davis 2 (4)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Davis 2 (9)<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Markakis, Chavez</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BASERUNNING:</u></b><br /><b>SB:</b> Chavez 2 (2)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#EE1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Felix Doubront (W, 3-3)</td><td align="right">7.0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right" class="active">4.24</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Vicente Padilla (H, 3)</td><td align="right">1.2</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">3.04</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Alfredo Aceves (S, 14)</td><td align="right">0.1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">1.66</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Doubront - 87 Pitches / 61 Strikes (70%)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#F47D31" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Baltimore Orioles</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Brian Matusz (L, 2-4)</td><td align="right">5.0</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">6.93</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Darren O'Day</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">1.71</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Troy Patton</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">4.43</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Kevin Gregg</td><td align="right">2.0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.89</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Matusz - 70 Pitches / 47 Strikes (67%)</td></tr></table></body></html>
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