Out of the four times he’s started, he’s allowed 6 home runs and possesses a 6.97 ERA in 20 2/3 innings.
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By the way, those Red Sox get to play the Mariners for the weekend, and the Mariners are 5-10 in June, so. don’t count on any help there. On the positive side, relief pitchers Matt Barnes and Clay Buchholz gave the Red Sox almost 4 2/3 scoreless innings.
Roenis Elias came into Friday’s start blazing hot, and ran straight into the brick wall that is Franklin Gutierrez. “I thought he was aggressive with his fastball”.
The Mariners loaded the bases for Gutierrez in the fourth inning on a walk and two singles – and he just missed a grand slam of a fly to deep right.
“We had an opportunity to stretch him out a little bit with three innings”. But I believe this is mostly bad dang luck.
“So I guess I see the ball pretty good here at Fenway Park”, Gutierrez said. The homer was his 25th at Fenway Park, sixth among active major leaguers, and he has four homers in the last four games against the Red Sox. Hit his 6th and 7th HR of the season, 5 of which have come against LHP…
Anna-Beck Panel is a student at the University of North Carolina and a lifelong Red Sox fan.
Elias was chosen for the vacant fifth spot partly on the basis of how well he pitched in Pawtucket, but mostly because he represented a good matchup with the risky left-handed bats in the Mariners lineup. Despite losing 8-4 to Seattle on Friday, the Sox are still the most potent offense in the American League, with Seattle second. In his past seven starts, his ERA is 2.68. Lost for just the 3rd time in 11 games vs. the AL West this season…
DAVID ORTIZ (1-for-3, R, BB, HR, 2 RBI) hit his 521st career home run in the 3rd, tying Hall of Famers Ted Williams, Willie McCovey, and Frank Thomas for 19th-most of all time…
The homer was his 2,380th career hit, the same career number recorded by Red Sox Hitting Coach Chili Davis. Lost again. They’re doing a lot of it lately, heading in the wrong direction, and showing some serious problems in how they were constructed.
Mookie Betts and Dustin Pedroia drove in runs with a pair of sacrifice flies in the seventh for Boston to cut the lead to 8-4.
SANDY LEON (3-for-4, R, 2B) is 9-for-13 with 3 doubles in 5 games this season (.692/.714/.923)… M’s starter Hisashi Iwakuma wasn’t great with four runs plated on nine hits over seven frames but that was still a winning effort. Iwakuma then pitched around Jackie Bradley Jr.’s one-out double off the Monster in the second inning.
Ortiz is hitting.344 with an astonishing 1.147 OPS. Has not gone as many as 3 consecutive games without recording an extra-base hit since 5/1-4 (3 G)…
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Franklin Gutierrez’s previous career high for RBIs was four on three occasions: August 16, 2015 at Boston; July 21, 2015 at Detroit; and May 27, 2008 vs. the Chicago White Sox while playing for Cleveland.
