“I feel like he’ll be able to step in and give us some impact with the bat, particularly against right-handed pitching”, Farrell said. Scoring the A’s by a total of 40-15 in the three game set in Boston, the A’s never had a fighting chance in any game, and, at the time, many thought that the season couldn’t possibly go any worse than it had been.
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Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz (34) stands in the dugout before their game against the Oakland Athletics at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.
One of baseball’s top prospects debuted against the A’s on Friday in Oakland, entering in the seventh inning as a defensive replacement, immediately making a strong throw across the diamond, and then walking and scoring in his first plate appearance.
Jesse Hahn is off the disabled list, but after giving up 11 hits and seven earned runs in 3.2 innings in his last rehab start, he’ll stay with Nashville and get more work. The Sox will have everyone available out of the bullpen since they are coming off an off day, so given Price blows up the Sox can dig deep to get through the game.
In the fifth and sixth innings, however, the Red Sox scored 10 times to put the game well out of reach. No team should be taken lightly and the Sox should remember that, these games are important if they want to win the division and the race is of course heating up down the stretch. Oakland scored their only two runs of the game in the fourth, with Price allowing three hits after striking out five of the first ten batters he had faced. To honor the occasion, the A’s presented Ortiz a giant bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon in a pregame presentation that included manager Bob Melvin and president Michael Crowley.
Boston Red Sox’s Travis Shaw, right, celebrates with Xander Bogaerts after hitting a three-run h … But because of MLB’s spending limits on worldwide players, the Red Sox were taxed a full 100 percent for their investment, thus paying more than $60 million total and also sacrificing the opportunity to sign global players for more than $300,000 for the next two signing periods.
The first two Boston runs were unearned thanks to errors by Marcus Semien and Brett Eibner. C Ryan Hanigan came off the DL before the game. C Matt McBride was called up from Nashville.
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“I’m just going to roll with it and see how it is”, Shaw said. Jharel Cotton, who threw 5.2 innings of scoreless ball for Nashville on Thursday, is one, and Raul Alcantara, who is 5-0 with a 1.18 ERA in eight starts for the Sounds, is the other.
