Bats go cold as Sox lose 13 inning game 5-4

Baltimore blooped their way to a victory Thursday night, walking off to a 5-4 win, just the second time this season the Red Sox have been walked off on.

After Felix Doubront looked impressive for the Red Sox in the first two innings, not allowing a hit, things unraveled a bit in the third. Danny Valencia led off the inning with a home run to give Baltimore the early 1-0 lead. The Ryan Flaherty blooped a double that barely dropped signifying this may be a night where Boston may not get any luck. Then three straight singles, two of which were weak ground balls that barely got through the infield, and all of a sudden the lead balooned to 3-0.

In the top of the fourth, the Red Sox began to chip away at that lead, with back to back home runs From David Ortiz and Mike Carp to cut the lead to 3-2.

The lead would be increased back to 4-2 when Matt Wieters squeezed out a two out single in the fifth inning, another rough luck moment.

The Red Sox put their rally shoes on in the top of the seventh inning, starting off with three straight singles to load the bases with nobody out. Stephen Drew would follow up with a deep ball in the left field power alley, initally looking like it would get down for a double, but ending up hanging up long enough to be caught for a sacrifice fly, to cut the lead to 4-3. Then Jacoby Ellsbury barely beat out a double play, allowing the tying run to score. Unfortunately from the 8th-13th innings the Red Sox would not get a single hit, and only one baserunner, on a catchers interference call.

It would be a bullpen duel until the bottom of the 13th, when it looked like it may be an easy innings, Alex Wilson walked JJ hardy with two outs and nobody on. Then a single by Adam Jones moved Hardy to second, and a bloop single that barely fell from Chris Davis allowed Hardy to score and the game ended 5-4.

My MVP of this game for the Red Sox is going to be Andrew Miller. Miller threw two full innings, striking out four, and looked downright filthy his whole time out there. If he can continue to pitch that well, it will really go a long way to bolstering the pen.

Will Middlebrooks was the only player to record more than one hit for Boston, and one of his hits was pure luck, so it was not a flagship night for the Sox offense. Aside from back to back jacks, and three straight singles, it was actually a non existant night for the offense.

One positive from the offense, Mike Carps home run was his seventh of the year, making him to be on pace for about 20. I am shocked that Mike Carp has made such an impact on this offense. He is now hitting .330 on the season, and .441 in the month of June. Hes one example for why this team has been so good, guys not expected to produced have gone above and beyond.

With the win, the Orioles move into second place in the division, bumping the Yankees down to third.