The Sox came into Sunday in hopes of taking the rubber game and winning their 3rd series in a row. The Sox had Ryan Dempster on the mound while the Angels had Joe Blanton. Dempster would pitch well enough to win aided greatly by a bunch of run support by way of the HR.
Dempster gave up a run in the top of the 1st giving up a solo HR to Albert Pujols. Sure, Pujols hasn't been stellar this year, but the guy can still hit the ball and do it well. The Sox bats got the lead back for Dempster in the 3rd and the Sox would stay on top from that point on out. The Sox would tie the game with a Nava RBI single to plate Ellsbury. The Sox took the lead when David Ortiz does what he does best, hitting homeruns. Papi smacked a 3 run HR have the Sox leading 4-1. Dempster gave up a solo HR in the 4th to Callaspo to bring the Angels within 2 runs, however the Sox would get that run right back in the 5th with an RBI triple from Ellsbury. Sox 5-2. The Angels bats kept trying to keep the game close. In the 5th inning Dempster gave up an RBI single to Trumbo to have the Sox clinging to a 2 run lead. Dempster pitched through 6 innings and while it wasn't the best outing, it was good enough to be a quality start and be in line for the win. Dempster's line for the night was 110 pitches, 6 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 BB and 6 Ks.
In the bottom of the 6th inning the Sox knocked Blanton out of the game with back to back solo HRs from Salty and Carp. Sox 7-3. Breslow pitched a scoreless 7th inning and then the Sox added 3 more runs to the board when Salty hit his 2nd HR of the night. Sox 10-3. In the 8th Koji Uehara came into the game and didn't have himself his usual "high five" performance. Uehara hit Kendrick and it's debatable whether it was intentional or not given how a few Sox players have been buzzed by Angels pitching during the series. Uehara then walked 2 more batters to have the bases loaded. Uehara gave up a 2 run RBI single to Shuck and the lead was now 10-5. Miller came into the game and even though he gave up a single to Trout, Shuck was thrown out at 3rd and the inning was over. Even though it was a non save situation, Andrew Bailey hasn't had himself many save opportunities lately, so he came into the game in the 9th. Bailey pitched a scoreless inning and the Sox won the game and the series.
Red Sox 10 Angels 5 BOXSCORE
WP: Dempster (4-6) LP: Blanton (1-10)
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