Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 4-1

BALTIMORE -- We've seen Curt Schilling before and he's seen us, but yesterday afternoon was different.

Shortly after 3 o'clock, it was as if everyone decided to walk down the aisle and make this relationship official.

Schilling has been a Red Sox farmhand. He has done Boston-themed commercials, including one in which he tries to master the city's inimitable tongue. He has debated old-school baseball with Johnny Pesky. He has even jumped in with some of the most serious ...

BALTIMORE -- Call back the rescue boats.

"We can keep people off the bridges [in Boston]," Terry Francona said yesterday after the Red Sox eased the temporary trauma of their Opening Night loss thanks largely to the wonder works of their blockbluster offseason acquisitions: Curt Schilling and Keith Foulke.

In their Sox debuts, Schilling manhandled the Orioles for six innings before Foulke rebounded from a disastrous spring training to cap three innings of perfection ...

BALTIMORE -- Good thing Johnny Damon could joke about it after he was involved in yet another scary outfield collision. This time Damon, who was whacked violently against the Wall at Fenway last August by Gabe Kapler and rushed away from Network Associates Coliseum in Oakland last October with a serious concussion after crashing into Damian Jackson, got the better of a collision with Kevin Millar.

"Is it true [Patriots coach Bill] Belichick is coming to check me out tom...