Excepting, of course, the simple fact that they are a bad team playing bad baseball. We’re not going to listen to you guys [media] bulls–. That’s the way we all think but we know the urgency to play better. “The 25 people are going to come together and we’re going to play winning baseball”.
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Manager John Farrell was asked before the game if he has heard the fans calling for him to be fired. To say that this will automatically turn, no one is giving into that either. “That might be otherwise but that’s not inside of our clubhouse”.
The Red Sox and the Braves start their intriguing Interleague series on Monday, with both looking to vault up the standings. The Sox could be stripped for parts next month and be playing for a new manager at the pace they’re on.
Right-hander Jason Grilli let three runners get on base and gave up an unearned run in the ninth, but still managed to record his 17th save of the season.
But Perez got De Aza, who is batting.208, to dribble the ball in front of the plate to end the game. “I had a friend from another team send me some help, telling me my mechanics were a tiny messed up”, he said.
We thought we had all the important details, but there’s a new one that should probably find a home in his trivia page: The Boston righty shaves his arms before every start. “Everyone was high [coming into the season]; we have great talent and personalities on the team”. And what we do and rally and support one another and go out and play the game assertively, anticipate situations as they unfold on the field, have one another’s back, those are the things that we preach continuously.
“We’re all in this together”, Pedroia said.
DH David Ortiz reacted after a swing and a miss in the ninth inning.
3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Uribe singled to right, Markakis to second.
Right fielder Nick Markakis, third baseman Juan Uribe, and catcher A.J. Toronto scored 31 runs in their three-game sweep over the weekend. Rick Porcello didn’t really pitch all that badly.
Robbie Ross Jr. has been recalled after spending the past couple of weeks down in Pawtucket.
Kelly Johnson singled and scored in the seventh to give Atlanta a 4-0 lead before Bogaerts hit his first homer since May 20. Boston’s starting pitching rotation has a combined 4.94 ERA and Porcello offers up his own 5.26 ERA to the cause.
Perez (3-0) scattered five hits and two walks in six scoreless innings, sending Boston to a seventh straight defeat.
Jonny Gomes, who was cheered in his return to Fenway and finished 0-for-3, made a diving catch in left to rob Pedroia of a leadoff hit in the bottom of the fourth.
Sandoval reached 1,000 career hits and 201 doubles.
Atlanta’s offense is paced by first baseman Freddie Freeman and he is hitting. The Red Sox are headed for their second straight losing season, and it will be interesting to see how a team that won the World Series just two years ago will proceed to handle two very poor seasons in a row. On Masset’s wild pitch, Sandoval to third.
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