The Boston Red Sox will be on the road to face the Los Angeles Angels on Major League Baseball Saturday and televised on FOX Sports at 9:05 pm ET based on your geographic location. Trout went 0 for 4 on Saturday to end an eight-game hitting streak in which he went 13 for 31 with six homers and 12 RBIs. The Red Sox have lost their last three games splitting their last 10 at 5-5 and they are eight games back in the AL East standings.
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“It was cool,” Calhoun said of his first career multi-homer game. The teams waited for almost 2 hours before the game was postponed.
Before Sunday’s tilt was called on account of a water-logged field, the last time the Angels were rained out at home was June 16, 1995. Hector Santiago (7-4) matched his career high with 10 strikeouts despite laboring into the sixth inning with 114 pitches. Porcello then hampered his own cause, allowing Freese to score on a wild pitch to hand the lead to Los Angeles. The rookie left-hander was one of the team’s best stories of the first half, going 5-2 with a 3.59 ERA. The team has gotten good value from youngsters Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts, but it isn’t enough to make up for their poor pitching.
Trout, who led off Tuesday’s All-Star Game with a home run against major league ERA leader Zack Greinke, took a pitch from Red Sox closer Koji Uehara over the fence in left-center for his American League-leading 27th homer. Ross has really proved his value as a long reliever of late and has lowered his ERA to 3.34 on the season.
CJ Wilson was on the mound for the Angels 1-0 victory solidifying his position as the Angels ace. The last pair of teammates to hit 40 home runs in the same season are Jermaine Dye and Jim Thome, who did it for the 2006 White Sox.
“If we get to that point, we’ll see”, said Farrell.
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Clay Buchholz on the status of his strained flexor tendon, which will be looked at by Dr. James Andrews on Wednesday: “It’s a lot better”. The newcomers to the lineup in Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval have done a fair job at providing the offense with some production, but the other big names like David Ortiz and Mike Napoli are showing their age. Both will take their normal turns in the rotation. The Red Sox should sell at the deadline (though they don’t have much to trade away) and promote their youngsters, beginning to play for contention in 2016, since it’s out of reach this year.
