Cano’s three-run blast was the biggest moment, but the long-term impact of Diaz striking out three of the four batters he faced during a relatively clean ninth is tantalizing. “Your house is burning down or you’ve won a million bucks” and he reacts the same way, which is good for this game”, Chris Benintendi said.
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Since July 8, the Red Sox third base platoon combination of Aaron Hill and Travis Shaw have only 19 hits in 99 at-bats between them – a combined 0.194 average.
Benintendi has been rated as the Red Sox No. 2 prospect by MLB Pipeline since his promotion to Double-A and was drafted seventh overall by Boston in the 2015 MLB Draft, the third-highest draft position for any Razorback player.
Diaz came in less than 24 hours after taking over the closer role from Steve Cishek, who blew a three-run lead against the Cubs on Sunday night and took the loss against the Red Sox on Monday. Edwin Diaz then wobbled through the ninth inning for his second save. “I didn’t have good arm action, my balance wasn’t good with my pitching form”. Ramirez crushed a 1-1 pitch from LeBlanc 454 feet into the stands in left-center field for a solo shot. In five previous starts against the Red Sox, Iwakuma had allowed 21 earned runs in 22 innings.
But though Ramirez was not in the Red Sox lineup on Wednesday, there was no report on what sort of injury he suffered, or how severe it might have been. Mariners fans were applauding their team’s first sustained rally of the night, a late surge that threatened to turn the game on its head. He tossed his first complete game of the season in his last outing when he held the Los Angeles Angels to two runs and five hits.
“He’s just got to come in and have fun; play the game the right way, hustle down the line and help us win games”, Bogaerts added.
That is the left field deck above Edgar’s, meaning that Cruz hit an upper deck shot. Adam Lind sat on a 2-0 changeup and yanked it into the seats for his 16th homer of the season. He’s hitting.276 with 13 home runs and 61 RBI while adapting well to first base, committing only three errors in his first 70 games with a.994 fielding percentage. Top prospect Andrew Benintendi got his first major league hit in the third and advanced to second on Brock Holt’s two-out single.
Coincidentally, Miranda’s only other big-league action also came at Safeco Field, where he threw two innings of relief for the Baltimore Orioles in a July 3 game against the Mariners. Seattle reliever Drew Storen barely got out of that jam when Boston shortstop Xander Bogaerts flew out to the warning track in left to end the inning.
Seattle handed Porcello his first loss since May 17, snapping a streak of eight straight wins by the Boston right-hander.
Boston has a whole second half of the season to stretch out Price before the postseason begins.
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“You’re going off scouting reports and hoping he throws strikes”, Seattle manager Scott Servais said.
