Evan Longoria had three hits and his 27th homer while tying Carl Crawford atop the Rays’ career list with his 1,235th game played.
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After returning from a West Coast road trip in which they played ten games in 11 days, going 5-5 in those games, the Baltimore Orioles started a two-game home series with the Boston Red Sox, who are now on an 11-game road trip of four different cities.
David Price only allowed one run over his six innings Wednesday night.
The Red Sox were in first place on July 21, then lost 13 of 20 before their current streak of five wins in row.
Before a ruling on the game was made, Striewski grabbed a poncho and gave this update as the deluge dropped buckets of rain around him. Dylan Bundy will be sending Papi and the midgets back to the dugout one after another.
Yovani Gallardo got the nod on Tuesday, hoping to continue his solid month of August. “The kid has worked so hard to get better”.
Whatever the reason, the end result was five runs on nine hits in just 4.1 innings.
Betts hit a three-run drive in the fifth inning and added a tiebreaking two-run shot in the seventh.
CHICAGO – Jason Hammel threw seven innings of two-hit ball, Anthony Rizzo jumped onto a wall to make a remarkable catch of a foul ball, and the Chicago Cubs beat the banged-up Milwaukee Brewers 4-1 on Tuesday night to sweep a day-night doubleheader. Right now with the bats so hot it could lead to a little more time going to the pitchers in terms of rest or at least the starters going fewer innings in the games. Was it because of the ankle?
Both teams traded runs in the second inning. That seventh inning gave the Orioles some momentum, however “Big Mo” as they say is apparently a tough thing to sustain when Mookie Betts is in the opposing lineup.
Regardless, when Hanley Ramirez returns Thursday from a three-day leave to attend to a death in the family in the Dominican Republic, manager John Farrell must keep Betts in the middle of the order.
Rookie Blake Snell (4-5) struck out eight in five innings, giving up one run, five hits and four walks. But in the fifth he was right back into it. Before 2016, Leon had a.187 career average with one homer and eight RBIs in parts of four seasons with Washington and Boston. Tyler Wilson came in and closed out the inning. “I think she’s a nightmare”. Sometimes you need all the muscle and everything, but it’s just about connecting and gliding with that baseball. The Blue Jays and Orioles square off six more times, including a three-game series in the final week.
Bundy, on the other hand, continued to struggle.
Price seemed please with his performance – very rare for him, even in good starts. But they did not have a good night at all. Betts led the way with a pair of key homers, breaking up a scoreless tie with a three-run bomb in the fifth and a two-run blast to break up a 3-3 tie in the eighth. It was Davis’ ninth home run to hit Eutaw Street, the most for any single player in the history of the stadium. Stay tuned for a new plaque!
Gallardo got through the fourth inning without any harm, but Boston finally got the scoring started in the fifth.
“It’s all on the starting pitching”, Price said after the rain-shortened, 8-1 win. And it rained. There was thunder and lightning.
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