He’s started on Opening Day and performed mop-up duties within a 15-month span. The move to the outfield previous year was an unmitigated disaster, and Ramirez hated every second of it.
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And what Buchholz sees now is a team with a good mix of young and old, many who are peaking at the ideal time.
Cleveland reduced their magic number to clinch the AL Central crown to six by overcoming the Kansas City Royals 2-1, pinch-hitter Brandon Guyer earning the Indians their 11th walk-off win of the season with a two-out single in the ninth.
The Pirates have won fifth of six to improve to.500 (75-75) for the first time since they were 69-69 on September 8. Ramirez promptly launched a monstrous three run walk off homerun to center field sending Boston to victory 7-5. This new and improved Buchholz (8-10) allowed one run on three hits in seven innings. “We have a real good offense, too, so one run down isn’t a whole lot”.
The free-swinging Wainwright lined a two-run double in the second inning and brought in two more in the fifth. “My grandfather was a 20-year season-ticket holder here for the Orioles, and today would’ve been his 79th birthday”.
Hanley Ramirez sat out the Wednesday night game due to a sore shoulder, but Red Sox manager John Farrell said the first baseman also is dealing with some other aches and pains. “Particularly after we score the five (in the sixth), he comes out with two very quick and clean innings”.
Before giving Ortiz the phone, Baltimore played a montage of his notable home runs against the Yankees – a sight to be enjoyed by fans of the Orioles and the Red Sox. Fueled by the revelation that is Gary Sanchez, they had fought and clawed their way back from being 9 games out of first place at the start of July to just 4 back, and aiming for more. He launched a 99 miles per hour fastball, dead-squared it up with one of the most gorgeous swings I’ve ever seen, and deposited the ball 440 feet away in dead center.
“If Mike Scioscia wanted to know how I felt, he could have come and asked me about it”.
It was hitting coach Chili Davis who recommended to Buchholz that he start throwing out of the stretch regularly.
“I’ve heard many different sides of it”.
In womens’ college soccer the Panthers also came up with a victory, 3-1 over Castleton, breaking open a tie game by scoring two goals less than a minute apart in the second half on strikes by Sabrina Glaser and Katherine Hobbs. “It would have been nice to re-set and have one extra pitch because I obviously wasn’t thinking clear there for one pitch and unfortunately he made me pay for it”.
“It’s frustrating when they don’t get a ball past first base, 90 feet away, and two runs score, ” Brach said.
The Red Sox increased their lead over the Orioles to five games in the American League East. Baltimore lost three out of four, but still holds a narrow margin for one of the two wild-card spots.
Anthony Rizzo was 2-for-5 with three RBIs, Kris Bryant added three hits and Dexter Fowler reached base four times as the Cubs mounted a 11-hit attack.
Baltimore manager Buck Showalter confirmed the first two starters for this weekend’s interleague series with the Arizona Diamondbacks at Camden Yards – Yovani Gallardo on Friday and Wade Miley going on Saturday. The Red Sox already had two outs before the reversal, and it paved the way for Benintendi’s homer that all but sealed the win for the night.
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“I was confident that I could play at this level”, he said. This is the fifth year of the Orioles as contenders, and maybe the novelty has worn off a little bit.
