Los Angeles Dodgers’ Adrian Gonzalez, left, scores on a single by A.J. Ellis as Boston Red Sox catcher Sandy Leon looks on during Saturday’s game. Wright threw a three-hitter.
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The 27-year-old Segedin set a Dodgers record with four RBIs in his major league debut, Adrian Gonzalez hit his 300th career homer and Los Angeles beat the Boston Red Sox 8-5 on Sunday night.
Wright (13-5) was greeted with a big bear hug from Ortiz after he put the finishing touches on his first career shutout.
“My family’s here – my mom and dad, my sister and brother are here, my wife”, he said afterward. It’s just one more game and then Boston goes home to play the player-depleted New York Yankees. To have an opportunity to pitch here was fun. “To be able to throw my first complete-game shutout was icing on the cake”.
Pitching all nine innings of the game has been seen before from Wright this season, as Friday’s complete game was his fourth of the season.
But that one ugly stretch was not the end for Price as it had been in Seattle. Mookie Betts led the way on Saturday with two hits.
Gonzalez is batting.386 (22 for 57) since July 1. This was a homecoming for him as well, since his dad, Jeff Shaw, was a former Dodgers closer and All-Star.
On the hill for the Red Sox was Eduardo Rodriguez, who continued his disappointing season.
“For the last month I’ve been talking with my professors and getting my lectures ahead of time and preparing more for the baby”, he said.
Dodgers starter Scott Kazmir (9-5) has lost two straight since a 13-start unbeaten streak. But he has given Wright the same advice that he has given the game’s other active knuckleballer, R.A. Dickey. “I thought he cruised through the first three. Game got away from us”. The win was Boston’s 60th on the season, and they remain two games behind the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays for first place in the AL East.
Manager Dave Roberts trusted Dayton enough to let him bat for himself in the bottom of the inning so he could stay in and pitch the seventh. “I’m sure it’s going to be something different, but it’s still another at-bat”. The ball was moving, changing speeds, eye level.
Ortiz was on the field as the Dodgers honored him in a pregame ceremony.
Ortiz stopped by the broadcast booth to share a chat with Scully, who has been calling Dodgers games for a record 67 seasons. Thompson, who said the pain in his lower back “sometimes goes down my legs”, is trying to stabilize his back with core-strengthening exercises. He’ll play first base. X-Rays on his shin were negative.
“For me it took four entrances and three wrong turns to get here, but I made it”, Reddick said. On Friday, the Red Sox bagged a 9-0 win On Saturday L.A. struck back with a 3-0 win. For Friday night, he was available only in the case of an emergency. Boston claimed Bryan Holaday off waivers from the Texas Rangers to solidify its catching corps. In fact, the blast to right center field was the first of two Dodger long balls in the seventh as utility man Enrique “Kike” Hernandez went back-to-back with Gonzalez to extend Los Angeles’ lead to 8-5.
Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig has yet to report to Triple-A Oklahoma City.
“Grant’s been great”, Roberts said.
“I don’t know what the hell is going on”. Puig was told before the trade deadline that he would either be traded or sent to the minor leagues.
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David Ortiz, who drew a pinch-hit walk and was eventually replaced by Steven Wright as a pinch-runner on second base, was 4-for-30 on the road trip.
