Red Sox even series at two

The Red Sox were in a hole. They had just lost a game to make the series 2-1 in favor of the Cardinals. Even worse, they had been defeated in the worst of ways, an interference call. Game 4 was the second of three games in St. Louis. The Cardinals started off the game with a run, a RBI single by Carlos Beltran. This score of 1-0 for the Cardinals held until the fifth inning, where David Ortiz scored on a Stephen Drew sacrifice fly to tie the game. In the sixth inning, the Red Sox made their mark. Jonny Gomes hit a 387 foot home run to score Ortiz and Dustin Pedroia.

The next major drama came in the ninth inning, after the Cardinals had made the score 4-2 earlier in the game. With a man on first and two out, Beltran came to bat against Koji Uehara, who you may remember from my last post. Pinch-runner Kolton Wong, the man on first, was then picked off by Uehara to end the game.

The player of the game was David Ortiz, who went 3-3 to raise his World Series average to .727. The series is now tied again 2-2.