Starting Five: Red Sox Crash Hard at Camden Yards

Starting Five is our wrapup of the previous day's baseball action, with a quick nod to what is ahead.

You Oughta Know ...
That the Red Sox probably did not sleep well Tuesday night.

Boston held a nine-run lead in Baltimore with nine outs to go. Then the Orioles exploded for five runs on seven hits in the seventh inning and five runs on six hits in the eighth, handing Jonathan Papelbon his second blown save of the season. When George Sherrill struck out Jason Bay with two on in the top of the ninth, it finished off a wild 11-10 victory for the O's.

[Said Orioles manager Dave Trembley:] "It was the shootout at the OK Corral except it was Camden Yards."

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And it was the biggest comeback win in Baltimore history.

"It was a weird game, a terrible loss for us," Dustin Pedroia said. "That's upsetting. Things just kind of spiraled on us."

"We just had no answer," Red Sox manager Terry Francona said. "We went through everybody. Nothing we did worked."

From the Trainer's Room ...
Adrian Gonzalez, 22 games shy of the Padres' team record for consecutive games played, left Tuesday's game with a strained right knee suffered on a slide into third base.

"It's too soon to tell," said [manager Bud] Black. "We'll see how it resolves over night. There's some soreness. He tweaked some muscles around the knee. We'll see how it sets up over night."

Numbers Game ...
Hanley Ramirez drove in four runs, giving him a Marlins-record nine straight games with at least one RBI – and 21 total over that span. With 29 RBI in June, Ramirez was second in the majors to Albert Pujols (32). Pujols' two homers Tuesday for St. Louis made him the first player ever to hit at least 30 home runs in each of his first nine big-league seasons.

In Their Own Words ...
"The people who run this team are businessmen and they have a plan. I'm sure they believe in their plan and I hope it does work. We've made a lot of trades during the time I've been here but none of the trades ever seem to work out. We're still making more trades and we haven't had a winning season the whole time I been here. Hopefully, we'll eventually win. After it's gone on this long, though, it is fair to wonder if it's ever going to work." – Pirates shortstop Jack Wilson after Pittsburgh made two trades Tuesday

Advance Scouting ...
The Rangers and Angels send their aces to the hill for the rubber game of their series in Arlington (8:05 PM ET), with Texas hoping to close back within a 1/2 game. Rangers right-hander Kevin Millwood, 4-1 with a 1.30 ERA in June, faces Jered Weaver, who has won five of his six past starts and has a career 2.64 ERA against Texas.