It turned out to be a special experience for both pitchers.
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And even if he did get a fresh start with a new club, he knew he was going to have to prove himself all over again.
This was Ortizs first start at first base this season.
The Sox scored first in the 2nd inning when Sandy Leon hit an RBI sac fly to score JBJ from third base. Three of the next four batters reached base as Price struggled with his command, and the Dodgers took the lead on a two-run double off the bat of Rob Segedin, the first RBIs of the 27-year-old rookie’s major league career. He left with a 1-0 lead after eight innings and the Red Sox bullpen and defense threw the game away, literally. “I threw a 3-2 changeup after a 2-2 changeup. and was lucky I fooled him a little bit”. The Boston Herald indicates that he was removed from Saturday’s game in the sixth inning due to general stiffness. Since today is a day game after a night game, you can figure Roberts wanted to sit a few players and be sure they are rested for tomorrow. “Obviously, he’s a legend, but I still had to do my job”. Closer Kenley Jansen worked a ideal ninth for his 34th save.
Adrian Gonzalez added three hits and an RBI for Los Angeles.
Gonzalez is batting.386 (22 for 57) since July 1.
LOS ANGELES Left-hander Rich Hill knew that when he went looking for work in 2015 it was going to be hard to get a major league team to give him a chance because he wanted to go back to starting, which he had done the first five years of his career before becoming a reliever in 2010 for the Boston Red Sox. However, this was his first complete game shutout of the season, though he tossed all nine innings yielding just an unearned run on June 20th against the Chicago White Sox.
“But still, to get to that point, anytime you give a team an extra out in back-to-back innings, it’s going to come back and haunt”.
“It’s something he’ll remember”, Roberts said. Mookie Betts continued his monster season in the third inning, sending his 23rd homer over the left-field wall in a heartbeat.
“I always expect to win; absolutely, that’s part of it”, he said. “I just didn’t pitch well”. Here, there were Brandon McCarthy’s alarmingly wild pitches, some severe infield butchery by Boston’s Xander Bogaerts and Travis Shaw, and Joe Blanton’s called strike three on Jackie Bradley Jr. with two out in the fifth, and two on, the Dodgers leading by one. He had been tied with Eric Karros (1992) at 30.
The Red Sox offense handed Price a 2-0 lead.
Said Boston manager John Farrell, “Certainly the walks built up in the fourth and fifth innings”. David had a lot of history with Bryan back from Detroit. Theres a comfort level there..
Justin Turner, Adrian Gonzalez and Kiké Hernandez all homered for the boys in blue as they took two of three from the rival Red Sox to move within one game of the San Francisco Giants for first place in the National League West. 1B Hanley Ramirez, after sitting out two games with a jammed left wrist, came through Friday’s game without incident.
Red Sox: DH David Ortiz walked as a pinch hitter Sunday after coming up sore from his first start of the season at first base Saturday.
Hill was already on the 15-day disabled list with a blister on his finger when the Dodgers obtained him in a trade with the Oakland A’s on Monday. No timetable has been set for the right-hander’s return. OF Trayce Thompson (lower back tightness) has scaled back his baseball activities. Boston will wait to hear how Young feels Monday before deciding when to begin his rehab assignment.
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Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz, left, congratulates starting pitcher Steven Wright after the Red Sox defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-0 in a baseball game, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, in Los Angeles.
