#20---BOS @ BAL, 4/4/2004

This was a Sunday night opener (I don’t recall if it was the opening game of the MLB schedule or not, with the recent trend of opening every other year or so with an overseas series, and am too lazy to check) in which the eventual world champion Red Sox fell to the Orioles 7-2. Pedro Martinez yielded three runs in the third, but was otherwise fine, working six and fanning five. Sidney Ponson made a lot of pitches (112) for allowing one run in 5 2/3. Mike Timlin was rocked in the seventh to put the outcome of this mundane opener out of doubt.