The Sox had a successful road trip and headed home to face their own friend and manager Terry Francona. The Sox had Dempster on the mound and the Indians had McAllister. The Sox gave Tito a nice welcome home gift and gave him a no doubter win as he returned to Fenway Park.
Ryan Dempster threw 127 pitches in his last outing, so many people were watching what kind of outing he would have this time around. This time Dempster would end up throwing 85 pitches and only last 3 innings. It's an understatement that it wasn't his best outing. Dempster gave up his first run in the 2nd inning when he gave up an RBI double to Stubbs. Sox 0-1. Dempster would give up 3 more runs in the 3rd inning with a 2 RBI single to Reynolds and a ground out RBI to Mike Aviles. Sox 0-4.
The Sox bats gave us a glimmer of hope in the bottom of the 3rd. Papi hit a monster of a HR to bring the Sox to 3-4. The game would have been tied if Ellsbury wasn't throw out at the plate when he tried to score in the previous at bat. Dempster was done for the night and unfortunately it did not get any better when Mortensen took the mound. Morty gave up an RBI single to Cabrera in the 4th and followed that up with giving up an RBI single to Aviles in the 5th. Sox 3-6. Mortensen found trouble again in the 6th and was out of the game and Alex Wilson was in. It went from bad to worse at this point. The Indians broke this game wide open during this inning. Wilson gave up an RBI single to Reynolds, a 2 run RBI double to Gomes, a two run RBI triple to Stubbs and an RBI single to Bourn. Ah, good times. Sox 3-12. There would be no great comeback from the Sox, but at least they did have a few innings of scoreless pitching to finish off the game. Breslow pitched a scoreless 7th, Tazawa a scoreless 8th and then Miller pitched a scoreless 9th.
Red Sox 3 Indians 12 BOXSCORE
WP: McAllister (4-3) Dempster (2-5)
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