Next stop for Clay Buchholz: Loserville; Population: Him

A pennant race/push towards the playoffs is no time to have a guy take the ball every fifth day that is a guaranteed loss.

With one more stinkbomb, an 11-6 loss to the Orioles (61-65), Red Sox (73-54) rookie Clay Buchholz earned a trip back to the minors.

For a guy that showed so much promise last year (no-hitter in his second career start) before being shutdown for the playoffs, Buchholz has done very little to impress with the Red Sox this season.

His record fell to 2-9 after 2.1 innings of garbage. He allowed five runs (all earned) on three hits with three walks. Ironically, Boston gave him a 4-0 in the second but that wasn't enough as Buchholz lost his third straight start where his team had a lead while he pitched.

Kevin Youkilis (2 hits, RBI) knocked in Dustin Pedroia with a single in the first. Jed Lowrie later walked with the bases loaded, 2-0 Red Sox as Orioles rookie Chris Waters seemed to have nothing.

Kevin Cash scored on a Waters throwing error in the second and David Ortiz singled home Jacoby Ellsbury to give Boston the ill-fated 4-0 lead.

Lou Montanez began the Oriole comeback in the second with an RBI single and Brian Roberts (2 hits, 2 RBIs, run, walk) drove in two with an RBI single.

By the time Ramon Hernandez hit a three-run homer off David Aardsma in the third, Buchholz was probably packing up his stuff in the clubhouse. Juan Castro put Baltimore up 7-4 with an RBI single later in the inning.

Melvin Mora's three-run bomb in the fourth meant it was over. Jason Bay hit a solo shot in the fifth but Mora added a sacrifice fly in the fifth, pushing it to 11-5 Orioles.

Jacoby Ellsbury doubled home Jeff Bailey in the eighth, a meaningless run.

Boston has an off-day today before beginning a three-game set in Toronto tomorrow night. As the Sox saw last weekend, while the Jays are too flawed and probably a little too far out of the playoff race, their pitching can keep them in any game. The Sox' patchwork rotation and bullpen will need to wake up or else similar results to last night and last weekend will be more and more prevalent.