The Red Sox were only given six innings to work with as the rains hit Baltimore in force. Probably a lot of O’s fans turned off following Major League Baseball knowing that the Yankees were beating the Blue Jays 6-0 after five innings.
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Craig Kimbrel notched his 21st save of the season with a 1-2-3 ninth inning in Tuesday’s win over the Orioles. But with 13 hits, an 8-1 lead and-after Price stranded a leadoff single-a rain delay, the Red Sox weren’t about to worry about one baserunner lost. Mookie Betts sits on 157 hits with 93 runs, 28 homers and 89 RBI.
Red Sox: LHP Eduardo Rodriguez showed no lingering effects from the left hamstring tightness that forced him to leave Tuesday’s game. In the third inning, Betts swung at anything sniffing the strike zone that looked flat enough to hit, striking a 93-mph fastball into right field.
The Baltimore Orioles have no apparent answer for Boston’s Mookie Betts. As I said above, that was Betts’ seventh home run in five games at Oriole Park this year. He also walked in the seventh after going 4 for 4 on Monday and walking in his final plate appearance Sunday.
The Cubs extended their NL Central lead by winning both games of the double-header against Milwaukee, 4-0 in the opener and 4-1 in the night game.
In the opener, Trevor Cahill made his first start in almost 16 months and pitched five scoreless innings. He was hit by a comebacker in the fifth inning, but managed to stay in the game. Filling in for the injured Chris Tillman (shoulder), the righty allowed five runs on nine hits over 4 1/3 innings.
Four straight hits broke it open with one out in the sixth. The homer, which was Leon’s sixth of the season, gave the visitors a four-run lead.
The Astros dropped their third straight, and the Cardinals won their third in a row on the day they learned outfielder Matt Holliday and reliever Seth Maness are headed for the disabled list.
“He made some quality pitches throughout the innings”, Jackie Bradley Jr. said.
Tuesday night marked Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley’s first game back in Philadelphia since the Phillies traded him to the Dodgers in August 2015. Rookie are you holding up right now obviously you still very strong this is a been quite a test this season with the travel and all the road games especially in this stretch I’m doing all right you know I think questioned as do the job given that they thought we needed in.
REDS 6, MARLINS 3: Tucker Barnhart’s first career grand slam capped a five-run first inning for host Cincinnati.
Betts drove in all five Red Sox runs with a three-run homer and the two-run blast.
The New York Mets ended a run of four consecutive losses to Arizona in a week by beating the Diamondbacks 7-5, with starting pitcher Noah Syndergaard driving in two runs. Bradley gave the Red Sox a 3-1 lead in the third with his two-run, two-out homer off Bundy.
Pedroia 1-5, Bogaerts 1-4, Ortiz 1-2, Betts 2-4, Bradley Jr.
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After returning from a West Coast road trip in which they played ten games in 11 days, going 5-5 in those games, the Baltimore Orioles started a two-game home series with the Boston Red Sox, who are now on an 11-game road trip of four different cities. Clay Buchholz, who will start for the Red Sox on Thursday, was scheduled to leave Baltimore before Wednesday’s game but his flight was cancelled.
