Orioles Rally in Biggest Comeback in Team History
Orioles 11, Red Sox 10
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009; 12:19 AM
BALTIMORE, June 30 -- When it was all over, Orioles Manager Dave Trembley, who has spent more than two decades in baseball, said it was the greatest game he's ever experienced.
The Orioles' 11-10 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night was much more than that.
It was the largest comeback since the franchise moved to Baltimore in 1954.
Trailing 10-1 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning against a team that they hadn't beaten in five tries this season, the Orioles scored five times in the seventh inning and five more in the eighth against the league's best bullpen.
The comeback was complete when Nick Markakis hit a two-run double off all-star closer Jonathan Papelbon with two outs in the eighth, and George Sherrill fanned Jason Bay with two men on in the ninth to end the stunning turnaround before what remained of an announced 31,969 at Camden Yards.
"Every time we scored, it got a little bit more wild, a little bit more . . . I guess the word would be believable," Trembley said. "It's got to mean the world to these guys, and rightfully so. [The Red Sox are] a very good team. And they threw their best out there, one right after another. It was the shootout at the OK Corral, but it was at Camden Yards."
