BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 14, 2013- Boston came into Baltimore last night with a 3 1/2 game lead over the Orioles and three over the Yankees. No matter what any of the Sox were saying to the media, they were aiming for a split of this important four-game series, especially with the Orioles' bullpen scuffling. Stats on the TV indicated that the ERA of the Bird Bullpen was the best in the Major Leagues before May 15, but just about the worst since then. With struggling rookie Kevin Gausman taking the mound for Baltimore, the Sox were hoping to grab Game 1, then steal at least one of the next three. As is so often the case in baseball, it didn't work out that way. First, Gausman was great. Over five and 2/3, he limited the powerful Sox to two runs on five hits. When Matt Wieters singled in a run in the fifth, the Birds led, 4-2. But Boston tied it in the seventh against usually dependable Brian Matusz. That, however, was it for Boston. Over the next six innings - the game went 13 - Boston would not score. Tommy Hunter, Darren O'Day, Troy Patton and T.J. McFarland baffled Boston and kept them off the scoreboard. The Birds, alas, were having the same trouble with Boston's pen until the 13th. After Alex Wilson, who overall pitched a brilliant 2 and 2/3 inning, retired the first two hitters, Nick Markakis drew a walk. Adam Jones followed with a single, getting Markakis to second. As Chris Davis walked to the plate, Boston's outfield retreated, showing full respect to the leading power hitter in the game today. Wilson, nonetheless, moved ahead on the count, then seemed to get out of the inning when Davis' powerful swing only sent a weak pop up to left. But Johnny Gomes was in left after pinch hitting late in the game. On Davis' big swing, Gomes first stepped back, figuring, like most in attendance, that a shot to the wall would be what he'd have to deal with. When he saw the big swing hadn't resulted in the anticipated long drive, he ran as fast as he could toward the sinking fly. Markakis, for his part, was off at the crack of the bat and was well around third when the ball plopped into the wet grass in front of Gomes. Markakis scored without a slide, and the Orioles had game one, second place in the AL East thanks to the Yankees' loss, and a 1-0 lead in the series. Observers all wondered how the two teams would manage in the next game or two with their bullpens stretched as they were in game one. The Orioles gave a partial answer within a few minutes of the end of the game, sending Thursday's starter, Gausman, to Norfolk to get a fresh arm into the pen for tonight's game....In Washington, obama and the functionaries pointed their efforts to immigration, drawing the obedient media with them. Thus, another day without significant public progress into the obama-led Benghazi Cover-up. As Credible and Incisive reported on June 4, the president himself hatched the cover-up immediately after learning of the death of four Americans, including the United States' Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Davis, in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, and then explained how it would work during a pre-dawn phone call to Hillary Clinton. The phone call to Hillary was the only one made by obama between 5 pm Washington time and daybreak on September 12. During the first hours of that time span obama had a range of military options before him, any one of which could have saved the lives of some or all of the Benghazi victims. But, having campaigned on the premise that the elimination of Osama bin Laden had all but eliminated Al Qaida as a military threat, obama declined to send in military assets to meat the Al Qaida attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. He even left orders with Leon Panetta, the Defense Secretary, to tell military assets primed to react to the Benghazi attack to "stand down," i.e., not get involved. With only a few U.S. guns on site, the attackers finally managed to grab Davis and one other American and murder them after up to nine hours of frenzied fighting. Some reports say that Davis was tortured and mutilated before his body was taken to a Benghazi Hospital that was under Al Qaida control.
After a few days of public hearings in Congress, obama and hilary have made every effort to avoid the scandal, which is no surprise to those privy to the facts. Recent public polls indicate that most Americans believe there was corruption involved in the failure to react to the Benghazi attack, but, amazingly, most polled do not think obama - the primary perpetrator, was involved.
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