Starter by committee? What is this, game 7 of the ALCS at the Toilet? For a team that normally feast on bullpens, especially from the Orioles, the Sox offense made the combination of Lance Cormier and Dennis Sarfate look like Scott Kazmir. It took Cromier and Sarfate a combined 79 pitches to get through 6 innings without allowing a runner past first. Suddenly I was trying to figure out if there was a way the Devil Rays and the MFY could both lose their game.

And then the real Orioles bullpen decided to show up in the 7th. Our 5′2″ cleanup hitter put the Sox on the board with one down in the 7th, and Kotsay tied up the game with an “Adam Jones is afraid of the Green Monster” triple in the 8th. But you really knew things were going the Sox way in the 9th when Cora got a clean single (strange), Coco’s sac bunt bounced fair-foul-fair for a single (really strange) and Jacoby’s sac bunt was thrown into left for a game-ending error (ok, that one was just stupid). I do have to wonder what Dave Trembley was doing brining in a rookie with ZERO major league innings to a tie-game in the bottom of the 8th. It’s almost like he’s trying for the best draft position now.