While Ortiz feels the Red Sox have their “mojo back”, he’s not writing off the Blue Jays yet, despite their 2-7 start to the month of September.
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Rougned Odor’s homer in the 12th gave the Texas Rangers a 4-3 win over the Houston AStors, boosting their hopes of wrapping up the West, while the Seattle Mariners brushed aside the Los Angeles Angels 8-1. “Obviously we can’t sit back and relax”, Pedroia said.
Chris Young homered, doubled twice and singled, and Hanley Ramirez also homered for the Red Sox, who maintained a two-game lead over Toronto. He made a lot of them.
Former Red Sox starter Wade Miley (8-13) got just four outs, allowing five runs in the first inning before loading the bases in the second.
The home run, Ortiz’s 32nd of the season, gave the Red Sox a 10-8 lead — one they did not relinquish, going on to defeat the Blue Jays 11-8. Xander Bogaerts had already begun retreating to first before Ortiz, rounding the bag, signaled for him to run in the other direction.
Mookie Betts then hit a liner that stymied Pearce and went over his head for a double. The Red Sox scored two more in the seventh. In the sixth inning of Boston’s contest against the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park, the 40-year-old slugger deposited a 1-0 offering from pitcher Oliver Drake deep into the right field bleachers.
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“Steve’s a good defender, ” Showalter said.
With emphatic series wins in Detroit and Toronto, respectively, the Orioles and Boston Red Sox went a long way toward redefining the American League playoff races with their performances this weekend ahead of a massive midweek series at Fenway Park. It was his 24th homer of the season. He has been on the DL since August 12 with a right shoulder rotator cuff strain.
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Instread, the Red Sox have won three of their first four games in that stretch. Manager John Farrell said he is getting better from a right shoulder strain but it will be challenging to get him ready with just a few weeks left in the season. Baltimore will send Dylan Bundy to the hill here as he looks to improve his record 9-5 and lower his respectable 3.82 ERA while Pomeranz is but 10-11 this season but has a very serviceable 3.01 ERA and is certainly one of Boston’s better options on the hill.
