Coors Field, Denver, Colorado Game Four started out with a bang for the Red Sox. Rookie Jacoby Ellsbury led off the game with a double. Dustin Pedroia moved him to third with a groundout, following an RBI single from David Ortiz. With the score 2-0 in favor of the Red Sox in the fifth inning, Mike Lowell hit a ball deep down the left field line for a long homerun to give the Sox a 3-0 lead. However, in the next inning, Brad Hawpe lined a Manny Delcarmen fastball to deep right field, for a solo shot, bringing the Rockies within two. Relief pitcher Brian Fuentes gave back that run abrupty, allowing pinch-hitter Bobby Kielty to hit a ball into deep center field, extending the Red Sox lead to 4-1. In the next inning however, Hideki Okajima allowed a one-out single to Todd Helton. The next batter, Garrett Atkins crushed an Okajima slider into the rightfield bleachers to bring the Rockies within one. But Jonathan Papelbon relieved Okajima and shut down the Rockies once again. Seth Smith was the final out, a swinging strikeout.

"It looks like we're in ground-breaking territory," mused Rockies manager Clint Hurdle. "We can't over-react. We have to find a way to slow them down."

But how? The Red Sox are too good, as they should be, with a $143 million (£70 million) payroll, nearly three times that of Colorado.

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