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Article: Red Sox overcome 7-run deficit to beat Orioles
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- April 18, 2009
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The Boston Red Sox offense overcame its season-long struggles in a big way on Friday night.
The Red Sox rallied from a seven-run deficit, sparked by home runs by Jason Bay and J.D. Drew, to defeat the Baltimore Orioles 10-8.
"We have the ability to have two or three guys not on their games and still score a lot of runs," said Bay, who broke an 8-8 tie with a sacrifice fly off Danys Baez (0-1) in the eighth inning to score Dustin Pedroia.
Bay was 1-for-3 with three RBIs, Drew was 2-for-2 with three runs scored and Pedroia was 3-for-4 with a double.
"He's a huge part of our offense," Bay said of Drew. "He's an on-base machine when he's going well.