Red Sox 11 - 1 White Sox
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Ortiz, Red Sox look to hand White Sox fifth straight loss

Aug 26, 2007 - 1:28 PM Boston (79-51) at Chi White Sox (56-73) 2:05 pm EDT

CHICAGO (Ticker) - David Ortiz hopes his hot bat can guide the Boston Red Sox to a sweep when they face the Chicago White Sox on Sunday in the finale of a four-game series.

Ortiz is 17-for-35 (.486) with four home runs and 14 RBI over his last nine games. The 11-year veteran is hitting .325 with 23 homers and 85 RBI this season.

The Red Sox will Julian Tavarez (6-9, 5.01 ERA) to the mound. Taking the rotation spot of Jon Lester, who was optioned to the minors, Tavarez gave up two runs and two hits over six innings in losing to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim last Sunday. The righthander is 0-1 in his last eight appearances.

Boston holds a 6 1/2-game lead over the New York Yankees (72-57) in the American League East. The teams start a three-game series at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night.

The White Sox will counter with Javier Vazquez (11-6, 3.66), who has won eight of his last nine decisions. The Peurto Rican righthander is 3-0 with a 3.81 ERA and 15 strikeouts over four starts this month.

Chicago has yielded 42 runs during its current four-game losing skid.








  • AL
    FINAL
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
    - - - - - - - - - - - -
    BOSTON 0 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 4 11 9 0
    CHI WHITE SOX 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 (FINAL)

    BATTERIES: BOS - JULIAN TAVAREZ, MANNY DELCARMEN (7TH), ERIC GAGNE (8TH),
    JONATHAN PAPELBON (9TH) AND JASON VARITEK
    CHA - JAVIER VAZQUEZ, RYAN BUKVICH (7TH), MIKE MYERS
    (9TH)

    Aug 26 5:07 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    SINGLE BY MIKE LOWELL SCORED DAVID ORTIZ.
    SITUATION: 4 RUNS IN, M LOWELL ON FIRST, 2 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: BOSTON 11
    CHI WHITE SOX 1 TOP, 9TH
    DUE UP FOR BOSTON: J DREW (.263, 1-FOR-2, 2 BB, HR, RBI)

    Red Sox vs. White SoxAug 26 4:59 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    ERROR BY JOSH FIELDS ALLOWED COCO CRISP AND JULIO LUGO TO
    SCORE.
    SITUATION: 3 RUNS IN, D ORTIZ ON FIRST, 2 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: BOSTON 10
    CHI WHITE SOX 1 TOP, 9TH
    DUE UP FOR BOSTON: M LOWELL (.321, 0-FOR-4)

    Red Sox vs. White SoxAug 26 4:55 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    SINGLE BY JULIO LUGO SCORED JASON VARITEK.
    SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, J LUGO ON FIRST, C CRISP ON SECOND, 1 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: BOSTON 8
    CHI WHITE SOX 1 TOP, 9TH
    DUE UP FOR BOSTON: D PEDROIA (.320, 1-FOR-4, 2 RBI)

    Red Sox vs. White SoxAug 26 4:52 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    TWO-RUN HOME RUN BY BOBBY KIELTY (1) TO RIGHT WITH 2 OUT IN
    THE 6TH OFF JAVIER VAZQUEZ SCORED J.D. DREW.
    CURRENT SCORE: BOSTON 7, CHI WHITE SOX 1
    DUE UP FOR BOSTON: C CRISP (.274, 1-FOR-2)

    Red Sox vs. White SoxAug 26 3:59 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    TWO-RUN HOME RUN BY DAVID ORTIZ (24) TO CENTER WITH 2 OUT
    IN THE 5TH OFF JAVIER VAZQUEZ SCORED DUSTIN PEDROIA.
    CURRENT SCORE: BOSTON 5, CHI WHITE SOX 1
    DUE UP FOR BOSTON: M LOWELL (.323, 0-FOR-2)

    Red Sox vs. White SoxAug 26 3:39 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    SINGLE BY DUSTIN PEDROIA SCORED BOBBY KIELTY AND JULIO
    LUGO.
    SITUATION: 2 RUNS IN, D PEDROIA ON FIRST, 2 OUT
    CURRENT SCORE: BOSTON 3
    CHI WHITE SOX 1 TOP, 5TH
    DUE UP FOR BOSTON: D ORTIZ (.324, 0-FOR-1, BB)

    Red Sox vs. White SoxAug 26 3:38 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    SOLO HOME RUN BY JERMAINE DYE (25) TO RIGHT CENTER WITH 1
    OUT IN THE 2ND OFF JULIAN TAVAREZ.
    CURRENT SCORE: BOSTON 1, CHI WHITE SOX 1
    DUE UP FOR CHI WHITE SOX: J URIBE (.221, 14 HR, 51 RBI)

    Red Sox vs. White SoxAug 26 2:37 PM


  • AL
    AT CHI WHITE SOX - SCORING UPDATE
    SOLO HOME RUN BY J.D. DREW (7) TO CENTER WITH 1 OUT IN THE
    2ND OFF JAVIER VAZQUEZ.
    CURRENT SCORE: BOSTON 1, CHI WHITE SOX 0
    DUE UP FOR BOSTON: K YOUKILIS (.294, 13 HR, 69 RBI)

    Red Sox vs. White SoxAug 26 2:28 PM

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