Before Monday night, the Detroit Tigers were the lone team in the American League that the Boston Red Sox had not faced all season. “It doesn’t matter who you’re facing”, Wright said. I thought he threw the ball well against a quality right-handed hitting lineup.
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ROCKIES 3, ORIOLES 1 (at Baltimore) – Nick Hundley broke up Dylan Bundy’s no-hit bid with a sixth-inning homer. “We’ve got to execute more consistently. It just wasn’t a great one either”.
Although it wasn’t one of his best performances Verlander pitched well, tossing six innings yielding just five hits and one run. In his 15 games and 9-2 record this year, Fulmer owns a 2.41 ERA with a 1.10 WHIP in 89.2 innings of work. “He’s hit a lot of home runs on low pitches in the past, and even if it’s not a home run, that’s where he does a lot of his damage”. He also struck out six batters.
Bruce Rondon: He earned the win with only one out – a strikeout of Dustin Pedroia with two outs in the eighth. “He just caught up with it and drove it”.
Detroit Tigers catcher James McCann hangs onto the ball after tagging Boston Red Sox’s Sandy Leon out at the plate trying to score on a fly ball by Red Sox’s Mookie Betts in the third inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Wednesday, July 27, 2016, in Boston. In the second, Travis Shaw lined a double into the right-field corner, scoring Jackie Bradley Jr.
Rodriguez had difficulty with the heart of the Tigers’ order, with Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez each reaching base all three times they faced him. That’s where Matthew Fraser lives, but this past Sunday he was three thousand miles away in Carson, California winning the mens’ Crossfit competition, finishing ahead of the entire field after a series of grueling events including the Handstand Walk, the Suicide Sprint and Redemption, and the Ranch Mini Chipper, which, just hearing them, make me want to go and take a nap. “I’m not as fast as I used to be, so it’s just a triple”.
Kelly made his first appearance for the Red Sox since June 1st and it came out of the bullpen after a good outing by newly acquired Drew Pomeranz, which still resulted in a 4-2 loss against the Detroit Tigers. That changed in the sixth when Iglesias crushed Pomeranz’s fastball high over the Green Monster in left for a two-run homer to put the Tigers up 2-1.
Bogaerts answered with a solo home run of his own leading off the seventh inning to pull Boston within 3-2. His stint with the PawSox could be as short as one game. Wright said his inconsistency was more at issue.
NOTES: Boston C Ryan Hanigan (flu-like symptoms) was a late scratch. “It could be as few as one”, Farrell said. But then, there aren’t really any better options at this point with Jordan Zimmermann and Daniel Norris on the disabled list. The Tigers tacked on two more to take a 4-1 lead into the eighth but after Verlander was taken out of the game, the Sox wasted a golden opportunity when they loaded the bases with nobody out in the eighth.
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Tigers: RHP Jordan Zimmermann, who has been sidelined since July 1 with a right neck strain, began a rehab assignment in Triple-A Toledo on Sunday night. He is scheduled to undergo surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome.
