Baltimore Orioles’ Manny Machado evades the tag from Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia (15) during the third inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, April 13, 2016, in Boston. Tune in on 105.7 The Fan (no streaming).
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Some of those things included a franchise-record 14 home runs in their first eight games, and at least one home run in each of the last seven games.
The Boston Red Sox may need to make a change at the catcher position soon because Blake Swihart’s inexperience is clearly still an issue.
He was 3-for-5 Monday with a homer and two runs scored and an RBI; 2-for-5, both doubles, a run scored and an RBI Tuesday; and 2-for-4 with a stolen base and a run scored Wednesday.
Orioles 9, Red Sox 5: J.J. Hardy had a pair of two-run home runs, Mark Trumbo added another, and Baltimore pounded Boston to win its seventh straight game to begin the season. Baltimore has been in a ton of close games as well, having just two games end with them winning by more than two runs.
With Boston up 4-2 in the top of the six inning and Chris Davis after a lead-off single to left, Buchholz got Mike Trumbo to pop up a 2-1 pitch but was unable to snare a popup in foul territory along the first-base line. Hardy has two home runs and five RBI in the win.
Yes, it would be a glaring spotlight on Xander indeed if he wasn’t on base to get doubled up by virtue of a double that had driven in the two tying runs in that third inning, making good this time on the leadoff efforts of Betts and Pedroia.
The Seattle Mariners have started the season with five straight home losses, their latest setback coming with an 8-0 defeat against the Texas Rangers. It’s their defense that saved them in a 4-2 win over the previously undefeated Baltimore Orioles. Masahiro Tanaka got the start but did not factor in the decision, giving up two runs on three hits over five innings. Victor Martinez contributed a two-run double and Ian Kinsler supplied a solo homer and scored three times. Eric Buckner bought tickets to a weeknight game, which he said, in years past, he may not have done.
Saltalamacchia connected off Arquimedes Caminero (0-2) with two outs in the sixth inning, hitting a drive into the right field bleachers that enabled the Tigers to erase a 2-1 deficit. “Fortunately I was able to get it out of there”.
The Red Sox made Jimenez pay for a leadoff walk in the fourth when Jackie Bradley Jr.’s run-scoring triple to right drove in Brock Holt, who drew a six-pitch free pass to open the inning. He pitched into trouble in each of his five innings last night and was again inefficient, throwing only 67 of his 114 pitches for strikes. 250 (5-for-20) through six games.
In that same postgame interview, Hardy commented that not only was he being teased about it by teammates, but an umpire also chimed in, telling him, “I see you got smarter today”.
It was the 12th career multi-home run game for Hardy and his first since 2014. He has five home runs and 17 RBIs in 12 games at Fenway.
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Buchholz pitched a awful game, which was followed up by a horrendous outing by Joe Kelly, and then we saw a decent at best start by Rick Porcello. But I’m glad we got the series win and we hung in there and battled back tonight. “We won two out of three in the American League East on the road against a team we all know is going to be pretty good this year”.
