OF Mikie Mahtook now in his sixth stint in the majors this season, hit a two-run home run Tuesday and is batting.391 (18-for-46) since being recalled on September 1.
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One of those five scored the game’s first run in the seventh, when old friend Daniel Nava knocked an RBI single through the right side.
Together with the Boston Red Sox and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Red Cross is proud to honor lucky presenting donors through the Blood Donor of the Game program. Even though the Red Sox took an early lead and Henry Owens began the game with four flawless innings, the Rays’ offense was slightly better. Erasmo Ramirez gets the nod, and he’s 10-6 with a 3.70 ERA and 117 strikeouts this season.
“It’s a good feeling to know that I’m throwing up zeros while we’re trying to score runs and keeping the game competitive”, Moore said. “I felt pretty good out there”. It got much worse for Owens in the sixth.
The left-hander didn’t issue a walk for the first time in eight big league starts, which probably comes as a relief after posting 4.25 walks per nine innings in his first seven.
It didn’t hurt that Xander Bogaerts was doubled off second base on a line drive by David Ortiz in the third inning and that Moore followed a leadoff single by Travis Shaw in the fourth inning by getting Rusney Castillo to ground into a double play.
The Rays got their first hit of the game in the top half of the 5th with a double from Logan Forsythe, who ended up scoring after a bunt groundout from Asdrubal Cabrera and a sac fly from Steven Souza Jr.
Moore allowed seven hits and didn’t give up another run after the first inning.
Boston Red Sox’s Xander Bogaerts hits an RBI double in the seventh…
The Red Sox were still unable to produce a run and the Rays struck again in the next inning.
Bogaerts’ slam hit off a billboard above the back row of seats on the Green Monster in the eighth inning, lifting Boston to an 8-7 victory over Tampa Bay and moving the Red Sox out of the AL East’s basement and ahead of the Rays.
“We gave up a bunch of hits, but they were all singles”, Porcello said. “I don’t think I could have slept tonight if I didn’t take him out of the game”.
Yankees 6, Blue Jays 4, 10 inn. He permitted a solitary, a two-run homer and after that three more singles before break supervisor Torey Lovullo and a group mentor went to the hill.
Making just his 11th start in a season cut short by two stints on the disabled list with left shoulder injuries, Smyly was pulled with runners on first and second. Hanigan struck out. Bradley Jr. was hit by a pitch. Rays LHP Jake McGee, rehabbing from August knee surgery, will throw a simulated game at Fenway Park on Wednesday.
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The next four innings, however, weren’t almost as smooth for the rookie lefthander. “Bill Welke felt like his explanation was that the ball was in an area that could have caused harm and it wasn’t necessarily the speed of the pitch or the type of the pitch or the direction of the pitch, and I disagreed”. Machi pitching. Forsythe hit a sacrifice fly to right fielder Betts, Guyer scored, Sizemore to third.
