J.J. Hardy hit a three-run home run and Nolan Reimold added a two-run shot later in the second as the Baltimore Orioles beat Boston 6-3 Tuesday night and pulled within two games of the AL East-leading Red Sox.
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Baltimore moved one game ahead of slumping Toronto for the top AL wild card after the Blue Jays lost at home to Tampa Bay 8-1 earlier Wednesday.
“You run out of things to describe what he’s done for us this year”, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said of Britton, who set down Dustin Pedroia, Xander Bogaerts and David Ortiz in order in the ninth inning.
Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz, left, celebrates with Mookie Betts after they scored on a single by Hanley Ramirez in the first inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park, Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, in Boston. The Red Sox used six different relievers to close out the game. He has pitched erratically since a July trade from the Padres and has a 4.60 ERA in 11 starts with Boston.
In Toronto, Drew Smyly pitched 5⅔ innings to remain unbeaten at Rogers Centre, while Alexei Ramirez and Steven Souza Jr. hit home runs. Elsewhere in the mens’ game St. Joseph’s of ME beat Lyndon 2-1, and in womens’ college soccer Lyndon fell to Pine Minor 3-1, and in college field hockey action Pacific beat UVM 8-2.
St. Louis remained a half-game behind the New York Mets for the second National League wild-card spot.
The Cardinals ensured that the runaway Cubs won’t clinch the NL Central at Busch Stadium. He will pitch the middle game of the three-game series Tuesday. Jonathan Schoop managed an infield single, but he couldn’t cross the dish, sending the game into the seventh-inning stretch with the 5-3 score.
Bundy, along with Boston starter Drew Pomeranz, had a tough second inning – so it’s fortuitous that he even made it 5.1 innings in the game. “It could have been 6-5 or something like that”. He’s already well past his previous homer high of 34.
Mark Trumbo took it upon himself to hang the “1” in Rick Porcello’s 13-1 record at Fenway Park.
The Rangers improved to 15-3 against Houston this year. The Astros are 4ﾽ games back in the wild-card chase.
BOSTON (AP) – One night after being embarrassed in the series opener, Baltimore overpowered Boston this time and preserved the jumble of teams contending for the AL East.
As everyone knows, once you’re in the playoffs, anything can happen over a five-game or seven-game sample size, much less the one-game crapshoot that is the Wild Card Game. Most recently, he limited the Blue Jays to two runs on six hits and a walk in seven frames.
ATHLETICS 5, ROYALS 4 Pinch hitter Yonder Alonso delivered a two-run double in the eighth inning and Oakland rallied past host Kansas City, another key loss for the Royals. But it will be their performance head-to-head against the Red Sox that likely will decide whether they still have a real chance at the division title when they head out for their season-ending six-game road trip to Toronto and NY.
Porcello and Dave Ferriss are the only Red Sox pitchers to open a season 13-0 at home. Sanchez, the rookie catcher who can’t seem to stop hitting home runs, belting his fourteenth of the year in just thirty-six games.
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Price (16-8) allowed two runs on two hits and zero walks, striking out nine in eight innings for his seventh win in as many starts.
