The Boston Red Sox have beat the Colorado Rockies 2-1 at home to take a two-game lead in the best-of-seven World Series of baseball.
After pounding out 17 hits in a record-setting 13-1 rout of the Rockies in the opener, the Red Sox relied on stellar pitching to win on a chilly night at Fenway Park.
Winning pitcher Curt Schilling, who improved his career post-season record to 11-2, limited Colorado to one run before giving way to left-handed reliever Hideki Okajima with two on and one out in the sixth.
Okajima, the first Japanese pitcher to appear in a World Series game, pitched 2 1/3 flawless innings, including four strikeouts, before giving way with two out in the eighth to closer Jonathan Papelbon who finished for the save.
Rockies rookie Ubaldo Jimenez took the loss, giving up three hits and issuing five walks in 4 2/3 innings.
Colorado scored in the first inning on a ground-out by Todd Helton, while Boston's Mike Lowell scored the American League champions' first run in the fourth and drove in the go-ahead run in the fifth on a double into the left-field corner.
The Fall Classic shifts to Coors Field in Denver for Game Three on Sunday (Australian time). © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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