Red Sox LHP Roenis Elias was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket and OF Bryce Brentz was optioned to Pawtucket.
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Price did throw the ball better for much of Friday’s game, a 9-4 Red Sox win, although a few mistakes proved costly, as has been the story for the lefty all season. Those two losses came after the Red Sox limped home from a damaging road trip that saw them lose six of 11 – including all three of the starts made by left-hander David Price.
Instead of becoming a washed-up baseball player who was just now going to milk out his final years for big money, Ramirez is leading by example both offensively and defensively.
Deesha Thosar of MLB.com reported that, in the eighth inning, “Ramirez was down for a few minutes, grabbing his lower back in pain as Red Sox manager John Farrell and a trainer aided him”. “But we’ve got to get through this little bit of a mess while our pitching is a mess”.
Ramirez underwent tests at Fenway Park and said his goal is to return Friday against the Arizona Diamondbacks. “It was good to see Hanley respond”.
It’s nearly astounding to hear Ramirez say that he doesn’t need to be 100% to play, when it contradicts what he’s expressed through body language for much of the last few years.
In Cleveland, Mike Napoli was 4-for-4 with a homer and four RBIs, Lonnie Chisenhall drove in four runs and the Indians routed Los Angeles in game delayed by rain in the fourth and seventh innings.
The 40-year-old designated hitter, who has announced he will retire after this season, fouled a 98.5 miles per hour fastball from Dellin Betances off the shin in the ninth inning and was replaced by pinch-hitter Bryce Brentz, who struck out.
The Ramirez injury adds to a growing list of ailments for Boston.
ESPN’s Buster Olney said there are four destinations for Rodriguez and the Minnesota Twins are one of them.
The Sox are carefully monitoring the status of Mookie Betts’ injured right knee, and they expect it to linger.
Jackie Bradley Jr. has a sore big toe on his right foot due to a recent foul ball and it has been hindering Bradley’s ability to play center field, Farrell said. The very next delivery by Price resulted in a liner to Bradley, who threw home to cause Segura to hold up. However, left fielder Andrew Benintendi also got his first taste of the majors when he misplayed a line-drive double off the bat of Jacoby Ellsbury, which scored two runs to give the Yankees the lead.
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Red Sox: Pedroia left the game after the second inning with flu-like symptoms. Manager A.J. Hinch praised Gomez’s attitude and work ethic, but said Gomez put too much pressure on himself after being a midseason acquisition by Houston last July. And particularly after the way the first inning unfolded. “We’ve just got to come back out there tomorrow and win the game”. “It was good to answer right back”. He has worked eight innings in those two games, allowing 15 hits and 11 runs – 10 earned while walking five. “If you’ve been doing it the entire year, if you’ve been playing every day like those guys have, everybody feels something. Nobody’s 100 percent. Not to suck it up but just go out there and battle for us, it was huge for us and huge for [Ramirez]”. They’re still barely clinging to a wild-card position – a half-game in front of Detroit and 1 game up on Seattle.
