“Sometimes numbers can be deceiving”, Rodriguez said.
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Now, I should say that my enthusiastic exclamation is not intended as a reference to Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game, even if that does happen to be the slogan of the semi-competitive exhibition that for some ridiculous reason determines home-field advantage in the World Series. “He has a number of ways of getting you out and you don’t want to chase”. He was hitting. 290 with seven home runs in Triple-A. The 19-year-old lefty has hit safely in eight of his last 10 games and is hitting.
Left fielder Brett Gardner, named to the All-Star team Thursday, had a hustle RBI single and Jacoby Ellsbury also drove in a run with a single as the Yankees beat their rivals for the fifth time in seven games this season. Joe Girardi has rarely let his starters go 100+ pitches this year, so in came Justin Wilson to face Betts with two outs. “That’s when I called Sandy [Leon] out and I thought it was best [to stop]”. Second baseman Stephen Drew then ripped the first pitch down the right-field line that was barely foul in a bid for a three-run homer.
Robbie Ross Jr. replaced Buchholz with runners at second and third and one out, and the Red Sox quickly imploded.
Despite batting. 230 this month, the Yankees have scored at least five runs in each contest of their three-game winning streak and are 6-2 since totaling three runs while dropping their final three in June.
On October 11, 1963 – week 6 of the AFL’s 1963 season – the Patriots played their first ever game at their new stadium against the visiting Oakland Raiders.
He quieted a Boston team that entered having won eight of 10 to move within 5½ games of the AL East-leading Yankees.
Buchholz (7-7) had been 4-0 with an 0.87 ERA in his four previous starts and owned a five-game winning streak.
Should one team or the other sweep the series at Fenway Park this weekend, however, the start of the second half takes on a whole new look.
“We’ll get him back in”, Gibbons said. Dustin Pedroia, out since Jun 24 with a hamstring strain, is ready to come off the disabled list, and Farrell said, “all signs point” to his return in Anaheim right after the break.
According to their Wins Above Replacement (WAR) the best players on the Boston Red Sox in 2015 have been Mookie Betts, Brock Holt, and Xander Bogaerts in that order. “To me, it sounds like this has been caught early on”, Farrell said. 182 in 78 games this season, though he deflected a question about his declining production contributing to Refsnyder’s arrival.
That’s bonkers. Boston hit one ball out of the infield after the sixth inning, and that was a lazy fly ball to center off the bat of David Ortiz. After being briefly treated, she got up and walked through the stands holding a towel to her head.
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Check out the live stream for Friday night’s game here as well as the live radio broadcast here (BOS) or here (NYY). His last start brought his ERA down from 5.59 to 5.47 – watch out Zack Greinke.
