The Red Sox won 8-1 in a rain-shortened six-inning game.
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David Price pitched good enough to get his second win in as many starts.
Bundy started the third inning looking good with two quick outs of Xander Bogaerts and David Ortiz.
The O’s were unable to even draw a hit until the last of the seventh – and that has nothing to do with Mookie Betts, for the record.
Eight of Price’s home runs allowed have been on the first pitch of an at-bat, most in the majors. Besides the mistake to Davis, Price’s command was pretty impressive.
The Red Sox, already faced with playing a day game in Detroit on Thursday afternoon after playing a night game in Baltimore on Wednesday, could have faced a much worse fate, thanks to Mother Nature.
OUR PICK: The Red Sox are just 1-5 in Price’s last six starts and are winless at 0-5 in his last five road starts. Marc Rzepczynski came on and the A’s opted to intentionally walk Adrian Beltre, reloading the bases.
The injury was announced as “left hamstring tightness”. Unfortunately, the O’s left fielder, Hyun-Soo Kim made a nice diving catch to end the inning, and preserving the one run game. They would break the shutout later in the seventh when Matt Wieters hit a two-run single with the bases loaded and then Adam Jones would walk with the bases loaded to tie the game up in the inning. It was Kang’s 14th home run this season and third in four games. Tyler Wilson came in and closed out the inning. Fast forward to the fifth inning as he gave up a leadoff infield single to Betts.
Tuesday night marked Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley’s first game back in Philadelphia since the Phillies traded him to the Dodgers in August 2015.
LeMahieu singled in the first inning, hit a two-run home run in the third and tripled and scored the go-ahead run in the fifth off Yusmeiro Petit (3-3). Before 2016, Leon had a.187 career average with one homer and eight RBIs in parts of four seasons with Washington and Boston. Unlike Davis’ shot, Leon’s hit a speaker, which stopped the ball from reaching the elusive Utah Street.
Brock Holt came up next and rocked a double off of Bundy, knocking him out of the game.
Betts, who had three homers and eight RBIs on Sunday, again led the Red Sox to victory, hitting a three-run drive in the fifth inning and a tiebreaking two-run shot in the seventh.
Cleveland’s Corey Kluber allowed one run in six innings to win his fourth consecutive start as the Indians won 3-1 to make it seven successive victories over the Chicago White Sox.
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Every starter on the offense had at least one hit except for Benintendi.
Striker also had this update, shortly before the game officially ended.
Boston outscored the Orioles 13-4 in the two games. Farrell said he will re-join the Red Sox on Thursday in Detroit.
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“Eddie’s tough. We knew that when he was over here, and anytime you get a pitching change in the middle of the [fifth] inning, you’ve kind have got to readjust, but we play nine innings”. The former Cy Young Award victor has not won on the road since May 18 and is 3-5 with a 4.34 ERA in 12 starts away from Fenway Park this season. Right now Toronto and Baltimore are ahead of the Sox, and tonight with a win they can slide past Baltimore to claim the 2nd spot in the division.
