You get to face the most potent offense in baseball in a park that has left many a pitcher emotionally scarred. That performance came Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park.
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In the end, the probabilities played out in a 6-2 defeat for the Mariners. The Mariners (36-33) lost their third consecutive series and also may have lost starter Taijuan Walker.
Price now has eight straight quality starts, the longest run for a Red Sox starter since Jon Lester in 2014. When I (went into my delivery), I saw him running.
After being pulled from his previous start in Tampa because of the tendinitis, Walker admitted in the days leading up to the game that the foot wasn’t 100 percent. “He probably wasn’t as sharp as he normally is but it’s his major league debut, there’s going to be a lot of butterflies”, he said. “I thought he hung in there and gave us a chance”.
It’s been a whirlwind 48 hours for Sampson.
Big Papi signed with the Mariners as an amateur free agent in 1992 after graduating from high school in the Dominican Republic.
“It’s been insane”, he said.
“It’s an honor for me to be a part of what you guys are”. “Just walking around in the outfield warming up, it was very special”.
With a rooting section of close to 20 people, including his mom, dad, brother, sister and several friends, Sampson, his heart racing, got a nice little ovation when he jogged to the mound in the bottom of the first. “It’s kind of in the back of your mind that we may need someone who can carry a little extra length (on Sunday) if it does start barking on him again”. Seven batters later, he was out of the game in the fifth inning and on his way to a loss.
Vazquez’s RBI double made it 5-2 in the sixth.
He shut out Boston over five innings, allowing six hits and one walk, and striking out three, but he came out of the game after throwing 88 pitches. With runners on the corners and no out, Bogaerts hit a shallow fly ball to center field that could not score Betts and Ortiz grounded into a double play to end the inning.
Orioles 11, Blue Jays 6: Matt Wieters homered and drove in four runs, and Baltimore outslugged Toronto to provide right-hander Chris Tillman with his ninth straight victory. That ended Sampson’s outing.
“I knew I hit it good”, he said.
Sampson joined the Mariners in Boston but wasn’t activated Friday.
“I just have to stay off it as much as possible and just rest it”, he said. “It’s the same game”.
David Ortiz again led the Boston attack with career home run No. 521, which tied him for 19th all time with Willie McCovey, Frank Thomas and Ted Williams.
Boston’s offense is that good.
In his most recent start Tuesday against the Rays, Walker left early due to foot discomfort, but appears to be just fine.
Porcello had already dug a two-run hole against the Seattle Mariners when Leonys Martin and Seth Smith opened the third inning with back-to-back singles.
On Father’s Day at Fenway Park, it was the youngest Red Sox player on the field that lifted the home team past the Seattle Mariners in a 2-1 win. He atoned for a base-running mistake in the fourth, when he tried to stretch a single into a double and was thrown out at second, with his 258th homer.
Gutierrez led off the third with a shot to left that cleared the Green Monster and everything above it, then just missed a grand slam in the fourth with a three-run double to the base of the wall in right.
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However, Porcello managed to strike out both Cano and Cruz before forcing Seager to ground out, evading even more trouble on the mound.
