That made sense to Jackson. “They can put a lot of points on the board. You just have to have belief in what you do”. “I learned you have to lay off the curve and the cutter”.
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Pomeranz (2-4 for Boston) was an All-Star for the Padres this season and 8-7 in the NL before being traded to the Red Sox in mid-July.
Brandon Maurer worked the ninth for his eighth save in 13 chances.
Back-to-back home runs by Jackie Bradley Jr. and Chris Young in the fourth broke up a scoreless game and gave Buchholz all the support he needed in his first start since August 23.
Offensively, Travis Shaw and Dustin Pedroia combined for five RBIs and Hanley Ramirez and pinch-hitter Brock Holt hit late solo homers.
“That’s a good lineup”, Clemens said. “But I didn’t think it was going out”.
Pomeranz gave up two runs and six hits in 5 2/3 innings.
He is 1-for-12 with a walk and five strikeouts in his career at Petco Park, with 12 of those plate appearances coming while starting three games at first base here in 2007. Young extend Boston’s lead to 3-0 when he went back-to-back with Bradley, hitting his eighth homer and second in two games.
Buchholz might well have finished the inning with just 87 pitches on his arm, but likely the Red Sox were aiming to take it easy on him after the brief transition back to the bullpen, and perhaps had a reasonably tight pitch count on his arm.
Luis Sardinas bunted the runners to second and third and Cosart scored on a sacrifice fly by Myers.
Boston’s best chance against Jackson came in the seventh. One way or another, Buchholz was lifted for Matt Barnes, who got the Sox that final out, and handed the ball off to Fernando Abad and Joe Kelly who, of all things, got the Sox through two more scoreless innings, with Kelly even having to work around Xander Bogaerts completely missing second base on what would’ve been an easy double play otherwise. “Today was one of those games”. He will be available on Tuesday, according to manager John Farrell.
Padres: CF Jon Jay (right forearm) will be added to the roster on Tuesday after playing in three minor league games.
Red Sox: RHP Rick Porcello (19-3, 3.23) opens a three-game series in Toronto on Friday.
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Boston has had an odd road trip so far as it totaled 27 runs in just two games against the A’s last Friday and Saturday night. Price is 5-0 with a 2.06 ERA in his last five starts for the Red Sox, who pulled into a first-place tie with Toronto atop the American League East with Tuesday’s 5-1 victory.Boston’s starting pitchers improved to 15-8 with a 3.06 ERA since August 1 after Clay Buchholz allowed one run over 6 2/3 innings in Tuesday’s win, but rookie third baseman Yoan Moncada is having a series to forget.
