He went down in here pretty hard [Tuesday] night. The results of the MRI were reviewed by the team’s hand specialist in Boston and determined there was no structural damage to the wrist, Farrell said.
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There are only six steps leading from the dugout to the walkway to the Sox’ locker room with walls on each side and railings on each wall.
“He’s not a DL candidate at this point”, Farrell said. Somehow, according to Farrell, Ramirez lost his footing and fell backward, using his left wrist to break his fall.
Seattle’s Hisashi Iwakuma (12-7) rebounded from a season-worst performance against the Chicago Cubs to to limit Boston to five hits in 7 1/3 innings.
The left-handed hitting Shaw has actually out-performed Ramirez against right-handed pitching this season, with a.287 average and.844 OPS compared to Ramirez’s.250 average and.721 OPS.
Hanley Ramirez’s wrist bent, but luckily for the Boston Red Sox, it did not break.
Porcello allowed just four hits through eight innings of work, but the first three of those hits left the yard for solo home runs.
The victor of the Golden Spikes Award in 2015 during his playing career at the University of Arkansas, Benintendi, who was the seventh overall pick in the 2015 MLB Draft by the Boston Red Sox, has rapidly ascended to an everyday big league role. “That’s, to me, advance scouting and the book that gets out on guys. So the opportunity is going to knock and we’re hopeful he can take advantage of it”.
It came in his third big league plate appearance.
“Not closing the door on it, but we want to at least explore it with David and see where he’s at, in addition to recommendation by our medical staff”, Farrell said.
“I don’t have that much swelling. So that’s part of the counter-adjustment along the way”.
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In Ramirez’s absence Wednesday, Travis Shaw was in the lineup at first base and Aaron Hill was at third, an alignment that figures to be used again in the series finale Thursday. He started the year in High-A in 2016, and batted.341 through 34 games, precipitating a move up to Double-A, where his average dipped to.295, but he slugged eight home runs, along with 18 doubles and five triples.
