BOSTON (AP) – The Houston Astros seem to turn every little break into a victory.
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The Red Sox got their first run in the second inning on a Hanigan RBI single, which plated Sandoval who had singled earlier in the inning.
“There was a full moon”. He had 17 homers coming into the game, including two since coming back from a left hand contusion last week.
Outfielder Preston Tucker capped off the frame with the second two-run double which pushed Alex Presley and Jose Altuve across home plate to make it 5-2. On top of that right handed pitcher Noe Ramirez was called up to the majors, where he’ll give a taxed bullpen a fresh arm to work with.
1 run, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 left on.
Boston took the first lead when Hanigan drove home Pablo Sandoval (3-4 on the day) for a 1-0 second inning lead. “We are playing pretty good baseball right now”. Designated hitter David Ortiz cut the lead down to just two on an RBI single to Presley in center field while advancing Xander Bogaerts to third.
“I wasn’t really feeling too many nerves out there”, Ramirez said.
“I tried to make my pitches as down as I can for the ground ball or strikeout”, Rodriguez said. “(I wanted to) just throw strikes and try to get it over with as fast as possible”.
“He lets the kids go and play”, Altuve said.
NATIONALS 3, GIANTS 1 (at Washington) – Wilson Ramos snapped a tie with a sixth-inning homer, Jordan Zimmermann pitched seven solid innings and the Nationals completed a three-game sweep.
Astros: LHP Dallas Keuchel (10-3) looks to continue his scoreless string of starts when they open a four-game series in Cleveland against RHP Carlos Carrasco (10-6) on Monday night.
Another strong performance from Collin McHugh (9-3, 4.51 ERA) could help the Astros win six in a row for the first time since a season-best 10-game run April 24-May 3. Following his successful return to starting last Sunday, Masterson cruised through the first three innings, and the idea that the right-hander had in fact turned his season around percolated in the back of the mind. Altuve was charged with an error and Ramirez advanced to second.
They hadn’t done that since taking their first three of the season. He was injured on a 95 miles per hour fastball thrown by Edinson Volquez in a win over Kansas City on Wednesday. Red Sox 3B Hanley Ramirez’s.
Both teams forgot how many outs there were on one play in the seventh.
Uehara retired Correa on a fly out (his first out of the game) and then Colby Rasmus fouled a 2-strike bunt for an out, and Luis Valbuena fanned on a splitter to end the contest.
Boston, facing Houston reliever Will Harris, managed to recover the advantage in the bottom of the sixth, however, as, after Ramirez reached first to begin the inning on an error by Correa, he promptly scored on Sandoval’s second double of the contest.
The Brewers (34-48) extended their winning run to six games, their longest streak since April 2014.
– Mookie Betts went 1-for-3 with two walks to extend his hit streak to seven games.
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Bostons Clay Buchholz delivers a pitch during his route-going six-hitter on Saturday at Fenway Park.
