The Red Sox gave up one of their top pitching prospects in 18-year-old Anderson Espinoza, so the pressure is on them to win now, and Pomeranz will be counted on to come through in this spot.
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San Francisco third baseman Ramiro Pena made a nice play of his own, going back to catch Travis Shaw’s popup in shallow left to end the left inning and save a run.
The power was chiefly supplied by David Ortiz, who drove a Jake Peavy cut fastball in the bottom of the fourth inning an estimated 440 feet deep into the right field seats behind the Boston bullpen.
The major league record for home runs in a game is four.
Albert Suarez, who’s roster spot was preserved at the expense of Ruben Tejada being designated for assignment on Wednesday, allowed extra-base hits to four of the first five hitters he faced.
Wednesday was a trying night for Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants pitchers at Fenway Park – well, except for Matt Barnes.
Despite having an eight-run lead entering the fourth inning, Drew Pomeranz couldn’t earn a win in his first Red Sox start since being traded from San Diego.
Coming into the game, he had solid numbers against the Giants as although he had an 0-2 record in three starts against them this year, he had just a 2.62 ERA. Coupled with the Giants’ loss, San Francisco’s lead in the National League West to 4.5 games, the closest the race has been since early June. “You look flat when you don’t hit or drive in a run and they start pressing a little bit and we’ve got to get on track here soon”.
That is as close as we will probably get to a player “calling his shot” in this day and age.
Giants: OF Hunter Pence (strained left hamstring) had a couple of days off during a rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento.
Red Sox: Put RHP Koji Uehara on the 15-day disabled list with a strain of his pectoral muscle.
Brock Holt added a solo homer for Boston, which is a season-high-tying 13 games above.500. Ramirez began the game with eight home runs this season. But the Nighthawks responded in the nightcap, winning 4-2 on Joey Denison’s two-run homer in the top of the eighth.
But he said one thing was certain.
Pomeranz was pulled in the fourth inning, and by that time Hanley Ramirez was just warming up.
Drew Pomeranz won’t get a second chance to make a good first impression.
Giants: Off Thursday before opening a three-game series in NY against the Yankees.
SEATTLE – Melky Cabrera broke a 1-1 tie with a leadoff home run in the seventh inning and Todd Frazier added a two-run shot in the ninth as Chicago snapped a five-game losing streak with a win over Seattle.
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Boston won for the eighth time in nine games and moved into first place in the AL East, a half-game ahead of the Baltimore Orioles.
