“We’ve played good baseball, and this is the time of the year when you want your team to get on a roll the way we have, and that’s what we’ve done”. His bases-loaded walk in the second inning was his 122nd RBI of the season, moving him past Shoeless Joe Jackson for the most RBIs by a player in his final season.
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In the National League, the Los Angeles Dodgers closed in on the West title by beating Colorado, while the New York Mets had a dramatic 11-inning victory over Philadelphia and are in a tie with San Francisco for the two wildcard spots, with St. Louis half a game behind.
Ramirez hit a line-drive home run over the right-field fence in the seventh inning, his 29th of the season. Red Sox 1B Hanley Ramirez was not in the starting lineup because of his sore left shoulder. “If we can get in, I feel real good about this group”.
– Koji Uehara continued his domination since returning from injury, pitching a scoreless eighth inning while striking out a pair.
God bless whoever it was who said to themselves “this phone is something that must be saved” and tucked it away for just such an occasion. He allowed just one run and three hits with four strikeouts and two walks and worked his way out of a few jams.
In the first, Mookie Betts, who was 19-for-37 (.514) here this year, singled with two outs. The pitcher needed 35 pitches to escape a one-run first inning, and failed to make it out of the second after he allowed Jackie Bradley Jr., to score following a lead-off triple, before loading the bases and issuing a run-scoring walk to David Ortiz. “And obviously I need to make a better pitch on the next batter”.
“We have a young club with a couple of veterans on it”, right-hander Clay Buchholz said after he threw seven innings and got the win Wednesday as Boston topped Baltimore 5-1. I just couldn’t hit on consistent basics.
“We knew from spring training on that Boston was capable of this type of baseball and unfortunately the timing is tough”, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. I’d hit one and then miss three. The rookie finished his first big league series with two homers.
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Remember the dugout phone David Ortiz smashed with his bat in an all-time temper tantrum on July 27, 2013, at Camden Yards? He’s scheduled to throw a bullpen Sunday in Tampa after throwing sessions Friday and Saturday, and Farrell isn’t ruling out his knuckleballer possibly pitching out of the bullpen in the postseason.
