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The Orioles and the Red Sox

The Orioles’ annual April slog through the AL East continues with the suddenly resurgent Boston Red Sox coming into town. The Red Sox are surging, after getting off to their worst start in decades they have crawled out of the basement winning eight of their last ten buoyed by a four game wining streak. The Orioles are, of course – once again, heading the opposite direction. We can try and kid ourselves with the moral victory against the Yankees on Sunday, but moral victories don’t end up in the win-column and the Orioles need to find a way to right the ship against a surging Sox club. Tonight Clay Buchholz will take the mound for the Sox. Buchholz has gotten off to a rocky start in 2011; he’s 1-2 with an ERA over 5. He is walking too many people, giving up almost 10 hits per nine innings and seems ripe for the picking. Now if the Orioles can just remember how to hit the ball. Seriously though, this is one of those situations where the Orioles need to pounce o…
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