For the season, Betts is hitting.426 with 12 homers and 18 RBIs against the Orioles. Also, Betts has eight homers and 22 RBIs in his past 16 games.
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The Orioles’ 39-19 home record is the best in the AL, but they’re 2-4 against Boston at Camden Yards. Dylan Bundy will start in Tillman’s place in an Orioles-Red Sox game that is now for second place in the American League East after Boston won the series’ opening tilt on Tuesday night. He was replaced by Matt Barnes, who completed a walk to Steve Pearce. David Ortiz led off the eighth with a single off Brad Brach (7-2) and Betts lined an 0-1 pitch into the front row of seats beyond the left-field wall.
Boston Red Sox’ s Andrew Benintendi, bottom, slides into second with a double against Baltimore Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy (2) during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016, in Baltimore. Adam Jones has 126 hits with 70 runs and 70 RBI with 23 homers. Tulowitzki also went deep to help the Blue Jays pull off their biggest comeback of the season and move back atop the AL East, just ahead of Baltimore and Boston.
Price has faced Toronto, San Francisco, Texas, New York and Baltimore (twice) since June. In fairness to Bundy, the fastball he gave Bradley was outside, right about where Matt Wieters set up. What’s more, Betts now has seven hits, five home runs and 13 RBIs in his last three games.
In the fifth, Utley hit a two-out solo homer off Vince Velasquez (8-5) and raced around the bases in customary fashion.
It was nearly an instant replay in the top of the seventh inning. His first career hit was a grand slam at Veterans Stadium.
Both teams traded runs in the second inning.
“It’s so close – the separation between the teams – it’s going to be all the way down the stretch and I think that’s kind of a given every year that it seems like the division is always separated by one or two games”, he said.
– In the fifth inning, it was Sandy Leon who drove in Betts with a homer, launching a blast onto Eutaw Street, well over the right field fence.
Regardless, when Hanley Ramirez returns Thursday from a three-day leave to attend to a death in the family in the Dominican Republic, manager John Farrell must keep Betts in the middle of the order. Yonder Alonso had an RBI double and scored on Ryon Healy’s single for the A’s. Gallardo had just gotten a big ovation for striking out David Ortiz with two runners on, but Betts jumped on the first pitch from Gallardo and lined it into the left field seats for his 27th home run of the season.
LeMahieu walked in his final plate appearance on Sunday, went 4 for 4 on Monday, and kept up that sequence against the Nationals.
To make matters worse, the Red Sox and Orioles faced a 1 hour, 17 minute rain delay Wednesday. He’s made 25 starts this season and sits at 15-4 with a 3.46 ERA in 151 innings.
Javier Baez hit a two-run homer while Hammel (13-5) struck out seven to extend his scoreless streak to 22 innings.
INDIANS 3, WHITE SOX 1: Cy Young candidate Corey Kluber pitched six strong innings, and host Cleveland beat Chicago for the seventh straight time.
The Red Sox are hoping for some better luck with injuries Wednesday as two members of Tuesday’s starting lineup were hurt. After reaching on base via a hit by pitch, Jackie Bradley Jr. scored on a Travis Shaw single for an early 1-0 lead.
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The Cardinals roughed up Astros ace Dallas Keuchel (7-12) to overcome a rocky outing from starter Jaime Garcia (10-8).
