Baltimore Orioles defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-2

BALTIMORE -- The walls of his corner office in the Red Sox clubhouse at Fenway Park were bare.

The drawers in the hotel suite he will occupy a mile from the park for the next six months were empty. And Sox manager Terry Francona last night was hours away from starting a new life in a city of strange places and unfamiliar faces in his Boston debut as the most second-guessed professional in New England.

But as much as he looked forward to settling in after living out of a...

BALTIMORE -- In Terry Francona's view, he had no choice last night but to stick with Bobby Jones while the lefthander struggled to find the plate and walked four Orioles to force in the winning run in the 13th inning of a 3-2 loss to the Orioles.

Though Ramiro Mendoza was in the bullpen and pitched only an inning the night before, the Red Sox manager indicated he did not feel as if he could call on the righthander, even though Mendoza has plenty of experience in big gam...