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Call pays off for Hargrove.(Sports)

The way Mike Hargrove sees it, he raised his average 333 points at Fenway Park last night - his average of success in walking the hitter in front of Troy O'Leary to get to the Red Sox left fielder.

"I'm 1-for-3 now. Wrong twice and right once," the Baltimore manager said after O'Leary grounded out against left-hander Buddy Groom to snuff out a Sox rally in the ninth inning and give the Orioles a 5-4 victory.

Hargrove and O'Leary have a history. While managing the Cleveland Indians, Hargrove, tired of the way Nomar Garciaparra had been punishing his team, ordered him walked twice ahead of O'Leary in Game 5 of the 1999 Division Series. The strategy backfired when ...

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