It hardly mattered the way he shut down Seattles powerful lineup.
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Sampson allowed solo homers by Xander Bogaerts and Jackie Bradley Jr., and the Seattle Mariners lost 6-2 to the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. Now they need to parlay that into a real winning streak-if not completely uninterrupted, then one that can at least see them with a good few series wins in a row and get them feeling like a team to beat once more. Im still not satisfied..
Walker, 23, is 3-6 with a 3.69 ERA.
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.
The win was Price’s first since May 24 when he was solid (if unspectacular) against the Colorado Rockies in Denver and the Red Sox had staked him to a five-run lead by the seventh inning.
Ortiz hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning of Boston’s 8-4 loss to Seattle on Friday night. He fanned his final two batters before Craig Kimbrel struck out the side in the ninth for his 16th save.
Price was rarely in trouble, but his teammates had difficulty scoring for him again.
Over his last several starts, David Price has looked like a decidedly different pitcher than the one that took the mound in April and May. Montgomery gave up 2 runs on 4 hits (1 earned run) while striking out 3 Red Sox in his outing. “It’s amusing, but he got into scoring position and if Hanley gets a hit right there I’m sure (third base coach Brian Butterfield) is going to wave him (home)”, Betts said. “I just have to stay off of it as much as possible”. Taijuan Walker threw 5 innings of shutout baseball but was unable to go out for a 6th inning as the foot injury he suffered in his last start against Tampa Bay flared up again.
“The first inning and the third inning – back up against the wall and tested”, Porcello said.
Yeah, after the first at-bat. “It really was”, Servais said.
– Hanley Ramirez’s adventure on the bases continued, with the first baseman getting picked off by Vidal Nuno in the sixth inning.
Seattle manager Scott Servais said the third inning was key.
Boston finally got to Sampson in the fourth inning with two outs. “After the third inning his ankle was bothering him”, Servais said. I would like to have kept riding him because he was getting them out, but the information I got and everybody thought it would be best to get him out at that point.. Gutierrez took advantage of the short right field corner, driving a ball just inside the “Pesky Pole” for a solo homer. The Mariners are already down two starting pitchers, Felix Hernandez and Wade Miley, both on the DL.
Manager John Farrell said Elias did a good job to steady himself after the rough start, but couldn’t overcome the damage done by Gutierrez.
– Ortiz notched his second stolen base of the season, getting an outrageously good jump off of Diaz to swipe second in the seventh inning.
Its amusing. Just to see a 40-yaer-old guy steal a base is always fun to watch, Betts said.
After Walker worked his first 1-2-3 inning of the game in the fifth, the pain was too much to pitch through.
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Shortstop Xander Bogaerts stroked two more hits, including his ninth home run of the season to give the Red Sox an insurance run and make a victor of right-hander Rick Porcello who scattered eight hits over six innings in a solid performance that bordered on terrific after a rough start.
