Red Sox 2, Rockies 1
After essentially taking Game 1 of the World Series off, the Colorado Rockies pitching staff showed up for Game 2. The Rockies held Boston to only two runs on six hits and quieted a Red Sox lineup that scored 13 runs in Game 1. Too bad the pitching staff failed to tell the hitters to show up, because other than a Todd Helton RBI ground out in the first inning, the Rockies only mustered one run for the second time in two games.
Curt Shilling followed Josh Beckett’s masterful Game 1 performance with one of his own in Game 2, limiting Colorado to only one run on four hits. Shilling only lasted 5.1 innings, but Hideki Okajima and Jonathan Papelbon combined to give up just one hit and no runs while finishing the last 3.2 innings. The limited offense scored by the Sox came in the fourth and fifth innings. Jason Varitek hit a sac fly to center, scoring Mike Lowell to tie the game 1-1 in the fourth, and Lowell doubled in David Ortiz in the fifth, which eventually ended up being the winning run.
