Watching with Ortiz is catcher Dioner Navarro. 330 with nine home runs since June 2 of past year. Farrell said Buchholz needed to control the tempo of the game. Is it time to panic for those two? It was Ortiz’s sixth home run and RBIs 20 and 21 of the season. “Like I say, every time they mention your name right next to those legends, that’s an honor”.
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CHICAGO – Wednesday night’s win for the Boston Red Sox wasn’t just a case of the Sox getting off the schneid against opposing southpaws on the season.
“We know he’s a good pitcher, but even the good ones run through tough stretches”. But Clay once again surprised the baseball community with seven innings of two-run ball, once again demonstrating the his outings usually fluctuate between the ace-like and the mediocre.
Buchholz has had about as bad as a start to the season as possible.
David Ortiz’s two-run homer gave the Red Sox a 3-2 lead in the fifth inning. 633 Slugging Percentage. In other words, “Big Papi” is not playing how he should be – a 40-year-old who is playing in his final season. “That’s what I learned today”, Rodon said. Erik Johnson will be promoted to pitch against the Red Sox, but general manager Rick Hahn said the fifth starter is “going to be a bit of a fluid situation”. The best they had from that point on was a leadoff single for Xander Bogaerts in the seventh, with Ortiz, Ramirez, and Shaw going down in order behind him.
David Ortiz hit a go-ahead two-run homer, and right-hander Clay Buchholz kept the White Sox lineup in check after Jose Abreu’s first-inning long ball in the Boston Red Sox’ 5-2 victory Wednesday before 14,383 fans at U.S. Cellular Field. Lee hit his third and fourth homers, connecting in the seventh against John Axford (2-1) as the Mariners had a season-high 16 hits and improved to an AL-best 11-4 on the road. “Jose is starting to swing the bat”.
“I’ve been searching for that for a couple starts”, Buchholz said.
Abreu crushed Buchholz’s 92 miles per hour fastball an estimated 402 feet to left in the first inning for his fourth homer despite the wind blowing in on a 45-degree night. The Red Sox had lost all of the games in which he started and he owned an appalling 6.50 ERA. I served up a cookie to him, and he hit it pretty deep. “So you tip your cap”. Farrell said he is more comfortable using right-handed reliever Carson Smith on back-to-back days than having Smith work multiple innings.
NEW YORK – Steven Matz (4-1) allowed two hits over 7 2/3 innings, Lucas Duda hit two of the Mets’ four home runs and New York extended its streak of winning series to six for the first time since August and September 2006. The Red Sox added another run in the eighth.
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Peavy allowed seven runs and eight hits in six innings, raising his ERA to 9.00 in six starts. “My job is to get back up there and do anything I can to help the team”. In honor of his friend John Danks – who will be released Thursday – Rodon wrote his former teammate’s No. 50 into the dirt before he began his start.
