Sox bounce back with another blowout victory

Sox 13, Baltimore 4
WP: Lopez (1-0)
LP: Leicester(0-1)
HRs: none

SUMMARY:
I didn't see a minute of this game because if the reasons mentioned earlier, but it doesn't even matter to me that the Sox compiled 13 hits and scored 13 runs in a 9-run pasting of the Orioles.

That's because my son's Little League team won both games today and ended the early rounds with a perfect 3-0 record, enabling us to qualify for the semi-finals on Monday night. Two of the wins were 9-2 blowouts, but the final game was a back & forth nail biter that we won in the bottom of the last inning, 7-6. It was quite an emotional day.

Speaking of quite a day, it looks like the Sox had one also. I mean from what I could tell, because I barely even caught the highlights. The teams were knotted at 4 apiece after 6 1/2 innings, with Boston starter Curt Schilling only lasting for 5 1/3, allowing four runs and nine hits in that time, but the white-hot bat of Kevin Youkilis bailed his team out of a tricky spot again.

Youk's 6th inning RBI single scored Cap'n Tek with the go-ahead run, and that combined with horrid Baltimore relief pitching spurred the Sox to score eight runs over the next two innings, turning a topsy-turvy nailbiter into another Sox blowout.

Big games were had by many Sox players, including the aforementioned Youk, who had another multi-hit game and added a run, RBI and a walk; Mike Lowell continued his smoldering May with a 2-3, 2RBI day; Julio Lugo finally broke through his doldrums with a stellar 4-hit afternoon; and Manny & Papi combined to go 3-6 with two doubles, five runs scored and three ribbies. Alex Cora even came in as a pinch hitter and went 2-2.

The Sox tallied 15 hits and eight players contributed to that total, enabling Javier Lopez to pick up the victory just two days after being recalled from Pawuckett.

All in all it seemed like it was an awesome game at Fenway.

But I think I might have watched a couple of better ones down here in Tampa Bay.

UP NEXT: SUN vs. BAL, 2P