Betts, hitting out of the leadoff spot for the first time since August 9th, singled in his first at-bat off of Gausman to start the contest. Hanley Ramirez 1B 5.
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It looked as if that effort and the run scored on Clayton Kershaw’s wild pitch would be enough, but Justin Turner hit a single off Javier Lopez to score Andrew Toles and Hunter Strickland could not rescue the situation for the Giants and send the game to extras, Adrian Gonzalez’s walk-off double piling more misery on Bruce Bochy’s club.
Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia is nursing a sore left knee that will keep him out for at least one game. Given how dominant the Birds have been at home this season, and given how stout they’d been against the BoSox (8-7 coming in, the only AL East team with a winning record), it wasn’t an entirely unrealistic goal. He tied a career high with seven strikeouts.
Rodriguez will have plenty of backup thanks to Porcello’s four-hitter. He is also the first Orioles slugger since Nick Markakis (2006) to have their first hit be a home run. After Evan Gattis was intentionally walked, Gonzalez lined the first pitch from Madson (5-7) into center field to drive in Altuve and Correa. One inning later they led 2-0 on Jackie Bradley Jr.’s solo homer.
Right now the game against NY looks like a blip on an otherwise positive radar, but that could certainly change if Rodriguez can’t keep things quiet in Baltimore.
Rodriguez retired his first 11 batters and held Baltimore without a hit until Mancini connected with two outs in the fifth.
Mancini began the 2015 season in Frederick, and was promoted during the season to the Bowie Baysox of the Class AA Eastern League.
Gausman fired eight shutout innings against the Red Sox during a 1-0 win Wednesday at Fenway Park in his most recent start.
David Ortiz is hitting.381 in 21 at-bats against Gausman, while Mookie Betts is hitting.353 in 17 at-bats.
This season, he’s batting.325/.384/.452 with 13 home runs and 67 RBI over the course of 650 plate appearances. The homer for Ortiz sets the Major League Baseball record for most home runs in a player’s final season, and the blast was his 30th at Camden Yards in his storied career.
The Boston Red Sox are surging toward the postseason. J.J. Hardy singled back to the mound and Barnes didn’t have a play allowing Schoop to score the second run.
Eduardo Rodriguez picked up his first win since July 16 – a span of 11 starts – at the expense of his former team.
“I was able to get my sinker down in the zone”, Jimenez said of the difference after the second inning. Koji Uehara threw a flawless eighth inning, as he has not allowed a run in his seven outings since returning from the disabled list on September 5th.
BRAVES 7, METS 3: Aaron Blair pitched six solid innings, Freddie Freeman drove in three runs off a misfiring Noah Syndergaard and visiting Atlanta slowed New York’s wild-card chase.
Closer Sam Dyson (3-2) worked a scoreless ninth for the victory.
The Red Sox lead the fading Orioles by five games, and another victory will likely shift Baltimore’s focus exclusively on retaining one of the two wild-card berths.
The 5-2 victory last night against the Orioles has the same Bostonians feeling like the team used their wands to send those clouds away, leaving only a magical number in its place: eight games to win the division.
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The Red Sox have some great hitters at their disposal.
