Orioles Pound Red Sox In A.L. East Showdown
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BOSTON – Rodrigo Lopez and the Baltimore Orioles shook off their weekend troubles and shut down the hot-hitting Boston Red Sox.
Lopez won his second straight and the Orioles broke a season-high three-game losing streak with an 8-1 victory last night.
David Newhan hit his first career grand slam and drove in five runs, and Baltimore built a 7-0 lead after three innings against Bronson Arroyo (4-2), who got just eight outs.
Coming off a three-game series in the Bronx in which they outscored the Yankees 27-9 and out-hit them 52-21, the Red Sox didn’t score until the eighth, when Manny Ramirez singled in an unearned run with two outs after shortstop Miguel Tejada’s throwing error.
Boston, which has lost five of seven overall, has not been shut out at home in 106 games since September 17,2003, against Tampa Bay.
Arroyo has struggled in two starts since serving a six-game suspension for hitting Tampa Bay’s Aubrey Huff with a pitch on April 24. Arroyo returned May 25 and lost 5-0 at Toronto, ending a stretch in which he went 9-0 over 17 starts.
