“As it turns out, it looks like that should have been the move”. “I [saw] a lot of pitches today, so that was good”.
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Trailing 8-6, Xander Bogaerts’ run-scoring grounder cut it to one.
Ortiz, as expected, was intentionally walked, and Castillo reached on an infield hit to load the bases. As the left-fielder Seth Smith fielded the ball on one hop, Ortiz hadn’t even hit third base yet.
“I’m sure he’s just going to tell me he was trusting his instincts and was forcing them to make a play, ” he said.
Nuno will have the unfortunate task of facing the Red Sox offense, one which has turned itself into the most lethal in baseball almost overnight. I just tried to not give up more than they scored to get them back out there to hit.
White Sox manager Robin Ventura expressed support for Red Sox skipper John Farrell and, coincidentally, arrived Saturday wearing several small bandages on his neck and nose after being screened for skin cancer earlier in the week.
That rookie starter Henry Owens was able to recover from a rough start and go six innings was part of the comeback equation for the Red Sox. Holt’s first drove in two runs to cap a six-run third inning. They slapped Hernandez with one of the worst recorded losses of his career.
The Pittsburgh Pirates again pulled out their extra-inning displays to beat the New York Mets 5-3, as two in the 14th broke the deadlock, while the Baltimore Orioles saw Chris Davis’ second home run of the game sink the Oakland Athletics 4-3 in a bottom-of-the-ninth finish.
Boston became the first team to get at least 15 runs and 21 hits in consecutive games since the Red Sox did it in 1950. Suzuki has 2,915 hits in the majors, 38th on the career list, to go with 1,278 hits in nine seasons for the Orix Blue Wave in Japan. Danny Farquhar got the final three outs for his first save.
In the 12th inning, however, Craig Breslow could not hold the score level in his third frame of work. Seager then lined a single to right.
Sandoval homered into the center-field bleachers leading off the second.
It has been a struggle all year for the Red Sox, but an announcement Friday served as a powerful reminder that these games we love to watch and cover are never really that serious.
Mariners: LHP Charlie Furbush, on the DL with left biceps tendinitis, had a bullpen session, but didn’t see improvement. “We said the most important thing is get back soon”.
But two straight games like that? Miley, who has been rocking a an odd-looking mustache in the last few weeks, pitched seven strong yesterday surrendering only two runs and four hits while showing better command of his changeup. “From my point of view, there’s three or four different areas that I’ve run into and to have that bench coach there to challenge some of my thoughts, to endorse some of my thoughts is going to be nice to have especially given Dana’s background”.
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Hernandez beaned Sandoval on the right elbow on the first pitch of his at-bat in the third inning. The signings didn’t get the Red Sox back to the postseason, despite the team scoring a lot of runs over the past week.
