When they are outhit, the Red Sox are 1-13.
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David Price (7-1, 5.34 ERA) and the Boston Red Sox (29-20) are in Toronto to go up against R.A. Dickey (2-6, 4.60 ERA) and the Blue Jays (26-25) in a game that could have plenty of offense. After tying the game with a four-run rally in the eighth inning, the Blue Jays scored twice more in the ninth to pull out a 10-9 win for their fourth consecutive victory.
Dickey held the Red Sox hitless through five but Boston scored three in the sixth.
“Papi going out there and hitting the home run that was huge for us, ” Kimbrel said. “I couldn’t be more proud with the energy and effort”.
Drew Storen came on to face Pedroia, who hit a ground-rule double to right-center.
With one out, shortstop Xander Bogaerts then hit a grounder to short, which Darwin Barney bobbled, to score Betts.
The wheels came off for Dickey in the sixth.
Removed from Boston’s rotation Friday after losing his previous two starts, Clay Buchholz (3-5) worked one inning for the win in his first relief appearance since August 17, 2008.
“He had a good cutter, good fastball, sank the ball”.
As Buchholz dressed in the clubhouse afterward, Farrell stopped by his locker for a congratulatory handshake. “I threw probably 45-50 pitches in there [warming up]. and I didn’t really know what situation I was coming into”. Koji Uehara picked up his first save of the season.
The St Louis Cardinals used a four-run second inning to see off the Washington Nationals 9-4, the New York Yankees fell 9-5 to the Tampa Bay Rays, the Oakland Athletics trounced the Detroit Tigers 12-3, the Texas Rangers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 in Yu Darvish’s first game since Tommy John surgery and the Cleveland Indians trumped the Baltimore Orioles 11-4.
“They are”, Gibbons said.
“(Big) Papi going out there and hitting the home run that was huge for us, and it was very disappointing that I wasn’t able to close the door after that”, Kimbrel said after watching the Boston bullpen surrender a season-high six earned runs.
For Donaldson, who now has the same number of home runs as he had on May 27 previous year, but is six RBIs off his MVP season pace, he said it was about time that things started to come together. Price’s only blemish was allowing a two-run homer off of the foul pole netting to Bautista in the fifth inning.
“I wasn’t myself out there”, Tulowitzki said, adding he felt the injury most in the field, specifically citing the throwing error. “A standing ovation is always good”.
After coughing up a two-run homerun to Jose Bautista and walk Josh Donaldson, he regained his composure to get out the deadly Edwin Encarnacion and one of yesterday’s villains, Justin Smoak. He stole second base and moved to third on an errant throw before Martin cashed him in with a drive to the gap in left-centre field. Boston starter David Price was solid again with two runs plated over 6.1 frames before Heath Hembree served up a solo homer to blow the save with three relievers putting up zeros the rest of the way. He walked one and struck out five.
Bogaerts singled to set the stage for Ortiz, who swung at a third strike despite being hit by the pitch in the left shin.
In the fifth inning of Saturday’s game in Toronto, Ortiz struck out swinging on a pitch that hit him on the top of his left foot. X-rays were negative and Ortiz is day to day. We had a great win last night.
First, if there is a defined ability for teams to climb back into games as opposed to simply hanging crooked numbers and piling on, this lineup has the former.
Dickey (2-6, 4.60 ERA, 1.31 WHIP) also has bounced back from a slow start with a strong May.
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As for Toronto, the Blue Jays have lost five of seven home games and are 7-15 in Dickey’s last 22 starts when pitching during Game 3 of a series. Toronto RHP Marco Estrada (2-2, 2.76 ERA) will oppose New York RHP Ivan Nova (3-2, 3.65 ERA) in the opener.
