RAYS 12, YANKEES 3 Corey Dickerson hit a three-run home run off Luis Severino, Evan Longoria added a three-run double against Luis Cessa to cap a six-run fourth inning and put visiting Tampa Bay past NY. He is hitting.381 (32 for 84) with nine home runs and 21 RBIs in 23 games since the All-Star break.
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“I may make a bet with him now”, Betts said.
Betts has homered in each of the first two innings three times this season.
It might have taken a three-game appearance by the 29th-ranked pitching staff in the majors to get the Red Sox offense going again, but the hits and runs will count all the same. “The last couple of days I hadn’t been swinging it right and hadn’t been swinging at good pitches and just been late, a whole bunch of different things”.
Betts made a victor of right-hander Rick Porcello, who won his career-high 16th game and remained unbeaten at Fenway Park this year with seven effective innings.
“The guys swung the bats tremendous today against one of the best pitchers in the game”, Porcello said.
With the Red Sox leading in the ninth, a “We want A-Rod!” chant briefly broke out among sellout crowd.
“They just hit everything he threw up there”, Arizona manager Chip Hale said. “It was a lot of fun to watch”. In all, it’s an 11-game trip against four teams, three of which are in the thick of the AL playoff picture.
This one was over early. Betts recorded his second three home run game this season during Sunday’s 16-2 win against the D-Backs.
METS 5, PADRES 1 Steven Matz carried a no-hit bid into the eighth inning and host NY won consecutive games for the first time in more than a month. Williams did it in 1957.
Meanwhile, Porcello defeated the New York Yankees the same night to go to 15-3, including 11-0 in 12 starts at Fenway. He has already reached a career-high for wins and has a legitimate shot at reaching 20.
– Pedroia isn’t wearing down in the heat. It was the seventh time this season Toronto has hit consecutive home runs. In late or close games, with 32 at-bats or more, Travis Shaw leads the team with a.375 batting average, the same man who is now hitting.163 for the last 15 games and.253 for the season.
Jimmy Paredes was a triple away from the cycle as the Philadelphia Phillies hung on for a 7-6 win over the Colorado Rockies, who scored twice in the ninth before Jeanmar Gomez escaped with his 31st save of the season. “I’m definitely proud of that”.
Cleveland minor leaguer Francisco Mejia had his hitting streak stretched to 50 games Saturday when the official scorer changed a ruling on an error from the third inning more than an hour after Class A Lynchburg’s 7-5 10-inning loss.
His eight RBIs in a game were the most for any Red Sox player since Bill Mueller hit grand slams from both sides of the plate and added a solo shot for nine RBIs at Texas on July 29, 2003.
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– Rookie Andrew Benintendi continued to struggle a bit in left field, overthrowing second base on the first batter of the game and missing a catchable ball in the eighth.
