Red Sox-Orioles: Updates

(10:46, Game over, Sox 10-8) We are over here. Sox take it. Jonathan Papelbon earns his third save. He struck out pinch-hitter Felix Pie on a 3-2 pitch with a runner at first, gave it the old double-fist pump and that was it.
(10:31, bottom 8th, 10-8 Red Sox)
The Red Sox announced a crowd of 38,266, the largest post-World War II crowd at Fenway. Yet, look down at the expensive seats between home plate and first base and you see quite a few empties. Wonder where everybody went?
(10:26, bottom 8th, 10-8 Sox)
Heck of a job by Hideki Okajima retiring Nick Markakis on a long fly to center with two men on in the eighth. Both runners advanced to scoring position but he got Aubrey Huff to strike out to end the O's threat.
(10:09, top 8th, 10-8 Sox) Where have you gone Papi? Sacks full, bottom seventh. Chance to send this game to outer space. But wait.... another whiff, three tonight for Papi. The Sox got a single from Nick Green to start things off. A single by Jacoby Ellsbury followed and then Pedroia walked to load 'em up. Sox couldn't get the runs in.

(9:50, top seventh, 10-8 Boston) Jason Bay's bases-loaded sac fly has given Boston its first lead in the bottom of the sixth. Pedroia led the inning with a single, bringing up Ortiz. You keep waiting for him to do something dramatic, but he struck out swinging against Danys Baez. He's now 0 for 3 (with a sac fly) and on a 4-for-21 streak over the last five games. But there's always Kevin Youkilis. He got hit off the helmet with a Baez pitch, but picked himself up and went to first base. After Drew walked, Bay's sac fly put the Sox up, 9-8, and Mike Lowell singled in the 10th Sox run. Ramon Ramirez remains in the game in the top of seventh.

(9:33, bottom sixth, 8-8) The Orioles just stranded a pair of runners in the sixth. Manny Delcarmen retired the first two batters before giving way to Javier Lopez with the red-hot Markakis due up. He walked. After Huff singled to left, Lopez was pulled for Ramon Ramirez, who just got Ty Wigginton to fly out. It's still tied.
(9:15, bottom fifth, 8-8) If J.D. Drew could hit like this all year -- say 150 games -- he'd put up some pretty impressive numbers. Drew homered in the third and tripled off the center-field wall with two outs in the fifth off Guthrie, who appears to be close to having his night end. Guthrie followed with walks to Bay and Lowell to load the bases. Jason Varitek caught a break when he hit a routine grounder to first baseman Aubrey Huff, who misplayed it, scoring Bay with the sixth Boston run. That opened the door for Nick Green, who stroked a double off the wall in left-center to tie it, 8-8. That was the end of Guthrie, who threw 103 pitches. On came Danys Baez.
(8:48, bottom fourth, 8-5 Orioles)
Penny's line: 3 IP, 6 H, 8 ER, 5 BB, 1 K. He threw 85 pitches. Delcarmen came on in the fourth and surrendered a double to left-center to Markakis, which drove in Jones. Markakis has five RBIs in this game, including the second-inning grand slam.

(8:36, top fourth, 7-5 Orioles) Well, that's it for Penny. After he walked Adam Jones on five pitches, Terry Francona came out to take the ball. Delcarmen is in. The Sox keep having to go to the bullpen early. Not a good sign.
(8:32, top fourth, Orioles 7-5)
Brad Penny starts the inning having allowed six hits, seven runs, with four walks and one strikeout. He's thrown 80 pitches. Manny Delcarmen is warming in the pen.
(8:28, bottom third, 7-5 Orioles)
Drew homered in the bottom of the third into the Orioles bullpen as the Sox continue to chip away at what was a 7-0 Orioles' lead. It was Drew's third homer of the season.
(8:12, top third, 7-4 Orioles)
We've got an old-fashioned Fenway barnburner going on here. The Sox responded to the Orioles' seven-run top of the second with four runs in the bottom half off Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie. Jason Bay made Guthrie pay for a leadoff walk to J.D. Drew with a two-run homer to right. A walk to Lowell and a single by Varitek, which took a funky bounce up the middle off second base, a bloop single by Jacoby Ellsbury off Jones's glove, and infield single by Pedroia accounted for a third run while David Ortiz' bases-loaded sac fly scored the fourth.
(7:52, bottom second, 7-0 Orioles) Oh boy! Nasty, nasty second inning for Mr. Penny. After being a strike machine in the first inning, he couldn't locate. The end result - seven runs on four hits and three walks, two of them with the bases loaded. The big hit: A grand slam by Nick Markakis on an 0-1 curveball. The seven runs were the most the Sox have given up and the most the Orioles have scored in one inning. Silver-lining: After the grand slam, Penny retired the last two batters to get out of the inning. At one point, lefty Hunter Jones was warming up.
(7:29, top of second, 0-0) Sox stranded Dustin Pedroia at second with one out in the bottom of the first. Pedroia doubled when Adam Jones nearly made a great catch, but he couldn't quite extend enough on his full-body dive for the ball. Orioles ace Jeremy Guthrie then struck out both David Ortiz and Kevin Youkilis to end the inning.
(7:20, bottom one, 0-0) Brad Penny allowed a one-out single to Adam Jones through the shortstop hole, but looked strong in his first inning of work. Penny got the ball down in the strike zone, which is something he was concentrating on following his 5-4 win over the Angels last week. Penny went six innings and allowed five hits and three runs and threw 86 pitches in that outing, allowing two solo homers to catcher Mike Napoli.