The Baltimore Orioles were able to stop the red hot Boston Red Sox on Tuesday on their way to a 4-1 victory. Boston had come into the game winning 8 of their last 9 games, and ended their five game road winning streak.
Rookie Zach Britton went 6 innings allowing only 1 run while scattering 5 hits en route to his fourth win of the season. Britton retired 9 of the first 10 Red Sox batters he faced, walking David Ortiz in the 2nd inning, before giving up his first hit to Dustin Pedroia in the 4th inning. Pedroia advanced to second on a groundout by Adrian Gonzalez and later stole third. He scored on a sacrifice fly by Kevin Youkilis for the Red Sox only run off the Orioles rookie.
Britton escaped a bases loaded jam in the 5th inning unscathed. After getting two quick outs to start the inning, he allowed a single to Jason Varitek and a double to Jacoby Ellsbury. Dustin Pedroia then drew a walk, loading the bases for the Red Sox new first baseman, Adrian Gonzalez. Britton won this matchup though as he got Gonzalez to hit a weak ground ball to second base for the third out of the inning.
Britton allowed two more singles in the top of the 6th, but again got out of the inning without allowing the Red Sox to cross the plate.
The Orioles offense, which has struggled against Clay Buchholz in the past, got off to an early start against the Boston righty scoring their first run in the bottom of the 2nd on a Matt Wieters infield single that bounced off the bag at 1st scoring Luke Scott. The Orioles were able to load the bases in the 3rd inning after base hits by Derrek Lee and Vladimir Guerrero, as well as a Luke Scott walk. Adam Jones was able to knock in a run with a sac fly to put the Orioles up by two, and Buchholz was able to minimize the damage.
Jones picked up his second RBI of the night in the 5th with another sac fly.
The Orioles picked up their fourth and final run of the night in the bottom of the 7th. After Derrek Lee flew out to start the inning, Vladimir Guerrero singled and was followed by a Luke Scott double. After an intentional walk to Adam Jones loaded the bases, Mark Reynolds brought home Gerrero with yet another sac fly.
Jim Johnson came on to pitch two solid innings of relief, striking out four and only allowing one hit.
Kevin Gregg pitched a 1-2-3 9th inning to earn his third save in four opportunities.
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