Together, Buchholz and Ortiz put the Red Sox in first place, a half game ahead of the Baltimore Orioles. “We have more offense this year”.
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“We know he’s a good pitcher, but even the good ones run through tough stretches”.
Not to mention consistent starting pitching.
Boston Red Sox starting pitcher Clay Buchholz, right, looks aways from Chicago White Sox’s Jose Abreu, left, after Abreu hit a two-run home run off Buchholz in the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, May 4, 2016, in Chicago.
The White Sox kicked off a six-game home stand without John Danks after general manager Rick Hahn said the team will cut the left-hander on Thursday, ending a 10-year run with the franchise.
Now that he’s off his own schneid, Buchholz has something to improve on to stay in his slot in a Red Sox rotation that should be a key to their contention during the five months to come. “He’s done that a couple times here lately”. “That’s what I learned today”, Rodon said. He allowed single runs in the first and third, and otherwise silenced the ChiSox over six innings, allowing three hits and four walks and striking out six. The Red Sox also dropped to 0-3 against left-handed starters this season. Boston would go on to win 5-2, so it was a pretty important play in the overall context of the game. “He pitches to the edge so effectively”. Boston got to within 2-1 in the third inning on Bogaerts’ two-out RBI single that scored Christian Vazquez.
Right-hander Steven Wright (2-3) drew the loss despite limiting the White Sox to two runs in six innings.
Cesar Vargas (0-1) allowed one run, four hits and three walks in six innings. He gave up at least five earned runs in each of his first five starts in 2012 before finishing with a 3.82 ERA the rest of the way. The only other Red Sox pitchers to start a season in the same fashion in the past 25 years are Roger Clemens (1991, 1993) and Clay Buchholz (2013).
“It’s been outstanding on his part”, Farrell said.
If ESPN wants to do whip-around coverage, they should label their programming as such so fans of the teams playing that evening don’t get disappointed when the network switches away from action. He is batting. 464 (13 for 28) during a seven-game hit streak. Koji Uehara pitched a scoreless eighth, and Craig Kimbrel pitched around a walk to Abreu for the save. Just as Ortiz answered Rodriguez’s shot against NY, he responded to Jose Abreau’s first-inning shot with his sixth home run of the season to score two and take the lead 3-2. The first baseman drove the pitch out of the ballpark for the 2-0 lead. On a warmer night than this, without a stiff wind to right field, that might have been the second homer in the inning, as ChiSox leadoff man Adam Eaton hit a long drive to left that came up short of the fence.
Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell shook his head and grinned when asked about the latest clutch hit and milestone home run by David Ortiz.
The White Sox are off to their best start after 27 games since 2006.
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“It says a lot about pitch execution because Johnny got in some jams and was able to pitch out of it, which was really nice to see, ” Cubs catcher David Ross said.
