The bobblehead depicts Ortiz addressing fans at Fenway Park following the Boston Marathon bombings, but Kennedy says it didn’t much resemble the retiring slugger and was not fit for distribution.
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Still, we’ve all had the kind of conversation A-Rod had yesterday, only instead of taking place inside the manager’s office at Fenway Park it happened to us when the travel-team coach called, or when you were summoned to the baseball coach’s office, or when the final cuts were posted on a locker-room wall.
But the play then went to video review and crew chief/third base umpire Ben Miller, after the lengthy wait of just over three and a half minutes, nullified the home run and sent Benintendi back to second. He is 8-for-16 in his brief major league career. Porcello pleaded with Farrell to keep him in the game in his last start in Seattle.
Porcello tied Toronto’s J.A. Happ and Washington’s Stephen Strasburg for the Major League Baseball lead with his 15th victory.
Porcello, the first Sox pitcher to start 11-0 at home since 1946, won for the seventh time in his past eight starts. With two out, a man on and the Yankees down three, Hicks walked against a wild Craig Kimbrel. Vouchers were distributed. Boston SS Xander Bogaerts, who went 5-for-46 on the just-completed road trip, didn’t play for only the third time this season – the first time since June 28.
DENVER – Adrian Beltre hit a two-run double, Elvis Andrus added a tiebreaking single and the Texas Rangers scored four runs in the eighth inning to beat the Colorado Rockies 7-5 on Tuesday. As Headley sat at third in disbelief, Boston starter Rick Porcello had some words for him from the mound. Nothing came of it. Rodriguez and the Yankees said Sunday that A-Rod will start a final game at Yankee Stadium on Friday night against the Rays before being released and shifting into a role as a special adviser. “WE WANT A-ROD!” they chanted throughout the ninth inning, before their closer, Craig Kimbrel, almost gave them cardiac arrest and they were barely able to breathe, let alone chant.
The Yankees wasted Gardner’s first hit in the first inning but scored in the second and third. Dustin Pedroia had three RBIs.
It still drove in Sandy Leon, who led off with a triple to the corner in right, and put Boston up 3-2. Home run or not, Benintendi’s power was on display.
One out later, Pedroia doubled home Benintendi and chased Severino.
Porcello wouldn’t discuss the specifics of the exchange after the 5-3 Red Sox win, but replay showed him pointing to his eyes and then pointing down as he jawed at Headley.
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Notes: Red Sox manager John Farrell said LF Blake Swihart is likely out for the season and will require surgery.
