But all the pomp and circumstance seemed to do was boring the bats of the current lineup as the Boston Red Sox (30-20) came back to top Toronto (26-26) 5-3 in extra innings at Rogers Centre on Sunday.
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With his home run in the fourth inning, Yankees outfielder Carlos Beltran became just the fourth player born in Puerto Rico to reach 2,500 career hits (Roberto Clemente, Ivan Rodriguez, Roberto Alomar). He is 0-4 with a 5.55 ERA in six home starts.
Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is day-to-day with a sore left foot that kept him out of the lineup in Boston’s 5-3 extra-inning win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.
“I’ve been putting in a lot of work and I’ve been feeling I’ve been getting right where I have that feeling where I’m about to start producing”, he said.
Dickey tossed 5 1/3 innings of no-hit ball before the Red Sox bats got to him in the sixth. Xander Bogaerts followed it up with a ground out to second that scored Mookie Betts.
Bogaerts extended his hit streak to 22 games with the single. “I think there was a couple miscues on defense for them and we were able to take advantage of that”. “I wouldn’t consider it a great outing but I wouldn’t consider it a bad outing either”. Price has allowed three or fewer runs in seven of his 11 starts, but he has also posted four starts of five or more runs allowed.
“He understands how I’ve felt about the whole situation”, Buchhlolz said.
Boston recorded its 13th comeback victory one day after losing 10-9 on an infield single in the ninth.
Pedroia scored Blake Swihart from third for the go-ahead run with runners on the corner. First he struck out Bautista on a half swing, then got Josh Donaldson – who had five RBI in the first game of this series – to fly out to right field. Pedroia went 2-for-6 with two RBI. After Saturday (two runs charged in a third of an inning), he sports a 7.39 ERA in 28 career innings against Toronto. Sox 5-3. Koji Uehara came out for the save since Kimbrel was not available. I think that was the key for us today.
Bautista hit the top of the left-field pole on a first-pitch offering by Price to score himself and Ezequiel Carrera who opened the inning with a single to right.
Craig Kimbrel (0-2), who allowed Bautista’s game-tying hit and two runs in the ninth, took the loss.
Devon Travis continued to look good in the batter’s box, battling Price for a single in the 4th in a strong at bat. “A standing ovation is always good”.
The Red Sox are 18-16 in games where they allow one or more home runs.
“Papi going out there and hitting the home run that was huge for us, ” Kimbrel said.
Red Sox: RHP Rick Porcello (7-2, 3.47) has had four consecutive quality starts vs. the AL East, but is 2-5 with a 7.15 ERA all-time in seven appearances at Rogers Centre.
“You keep winning series throughout the year you’re going to end up where you want to at the end”. RHP Ivan Nova (3-2, 3.65 ERA) starts for NY on Monday. Hembree came back out for the 8th inning and he let the Jays tie the game when he gave up a solo home run to Encarnacion.
Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons, left, takes the ball away from Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Gavin Floyd (39) while playing against the Boston Red Sox during 11th inning baseball action in Toronto on Sunday, May 29, 2016.
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TWINS 5, MARINERS 4 (at Seattle) – Joe Mauer and Miguel Sano each homered for a third straight game and Minnesota completed a three-game sweep.
