With Boston’s lineup failing to produce, John Farrell has shuffled the order, with Dustin Pedroia batting cleanup as they hope to find some more runs.
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Offense wasn’t supposed to be a problem. He had been 0-for-11 in the series entering Thursday.
Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz hit his 36th double of the season in Tuesday’s 5-4 loss to the Seattle Mariners, setting a new single-season record for doubles by a player age 40 or older, per ESPN Stats & Info. Pomerantz, yet to win in four starts since being acquired from San Diego, allowed just two runs on four hits, but issued a career-high six walks.
He struck out swinging against Iwakuma in the fifth, but in the eighth, with one out, he had a broken-bat single to right field.
Benintendi batted.312 with 21 doubles, 12 triples, 9 home runs and a.910 OPS in 97 games before being called up from the Portland Sea Dogs.
Iwakuma (12-7) rebounded from a season-worst performance against the Chicago Cubs to limit Boston to five hits, a team that had given him problems in the past. Considering newly-acquired Fernando Abad was brought in at the trade deadline, instead of another starting pitcher, one would think that the Red Sox have chose to follow the latest trend in Major League Baseball, letting the bullpen relieve the starter early in the game. “Anything is good against us right now”. Abad was facing Robinson Cano who he has had a lot of success against in the past, but that would not be the case last night.
The Red Sox have had better nights.
In Phoenix, Max Scherzer struck out 11 in eight innings and had a two-run single in Washington’s win over Arizona. They settled for a split in their four-game series against the Red Sox. If the trend continues, Benintendi’s future is bright in a Red Sox uniform. I’ll take the over here, as we should see some fireworks. Among other things, he received a framed copy of his first professional contract, a watch and 34 pounds of Northwest King Salmon… “I like where we’re at as a starting rotation”. This time, Price had given up just three hits all night before he faltered in the eighth, and there’s a decent argument to be made that he was left in at least one batter too long in that inning. O’Malley had three hits.
Nelson Cruz hammered a 1-1 fastball from Porcello into the upper deck of left field.
It was another sinker that cost Porcello in the sixth, when the Mariners power-hitting catcher Mike Zunino hammered a low one over the center-field wall.
Lind extended the margin to 3-0 with a one-out homer to right in the seventh inning.
“It was a misfire to Cruz, he does what he does with that”, Porcello said. The fastball to Zunino was supposed to be down in and in. “Everything looks fine. That made me feel better a little bit”, Ramirez said after Boston’s 3-1 loss on Wednesday. And then a 2-0 changeup to Lind, really just trying to stay away from damage against him. “And he took me out on that”. “I’m very hopeful that he’s back in our bullpen in 15 days”, manager Scott Servais said.
“I felt good”, Porcello said when asked about the incident.
Boston jumped on Miranda with back-to-back one-out singles and a walk to load the bases in the first inning.
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Since July 8, the Red Sox third base platoon combination of Aaron Hill and Travis Shaw have only 19 hits in 99 at-bats between them – a combined 0.194 average.
