Colby Rasmus provided an explosion in the fifth inning the Astors needed, hitting a grand slam on the way to an 8-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday.
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His first pitch to Rasmus was a 98-mph fastball that Rasmus swung at and missed. Then he struck out swinging at a changeup in the third.
Also Thursday, the Red Sox called up left-handed pitcher Roenis Elias from Triple-A Pawtucket and sent down right-handed pitcher William Cuevas.
“I need to do a better job”, Feldman said. Now he’s 1-for-6 with three strikeouts and a enormous home run. The ball stayed over the plate and Rasmus drove it deep into the seats in right field. Rasmus had a tie-breaking grand slam in Houston’s 8-3 win over Boston on Saturday.
Buchholz regretted his location, not the pitch selection.
The Sox have built a bullpen capable of throwing a life raft to their underperforming starting pitchers sometimes. “Me and Colby faced each other a lot, he got me today”.
John Farrell understood the intent.
The bases, therefore, were loaded with just one out instead of runners at first and third with two outs. That said if the Red Sox hit the end of June and have a record anywhere near the 36-45 record they had last July 1 it’s my belief that Farrell will finally be shown the exit. “He was working through the at-bat in good shape”. “The one inning today bit him”. “Nothing I can do about it now”. He takes on Clay Buchholz, who has dominated Houston in his four career starts, allowing just five runs in his last four starts. He pitched two scoreless innings, giving up one hit and one walk while striking out one.
Sunday was a bad day for starters and closers in the Boston Red Sox’s matchup against the Houston Astros.
“That’s why baseball is a hard game. You can’t go out there every time and dominate every time like you want to”, Buchholz said.
Bogaerts took a fastball off the wrist from Astros reliever Luke Gregerson, but X-rays taken after the game were negative. The Red Sox don’t think the injury is serious, and he could return on Sunday. The knuckleballer has allowed three earned runs in 12 2/3 innings of his two starts that both came against Toronto. It was 1-1 at that point.
Hanley Ramirez grounded slowly to third baseman Marwin Gonzalez who threw to Jose Altuve for what appeared to be a force out at second. Buchholz then hit Carlos Correa with a changeup to load the bases. McCullers will go to the Astros’ spring training facility in Florida to get more work in and could get into an extended spring training game before heading out to a rehab game….
“It’s one of those things where I feel like I’m making decent pitches”.
Red Sox: RHP Rick Porcello (3-0) will try to remain undefeated as the Red Sox start four straight games with the Braves on Monday in Atlanta. Owens (1-1, 1.00 ERA) was 4-4 with a 4.57 ERA over 11 starts with the Red Sox last season.
Mookie Betts hit a leadoff single and advanced to second on an error by Fiers on a pickoff attempt.
The Red Sox added a run on a double by Josh Rutledge with two outs in the eighth. And the versatile Brock Holt replaced him at short.
Fiers settled down after the single by Ortiz, retiring 15 of the next 16 batters before a double by Pedroia to start the sixth inning. Five were by strikeout.
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In other games it was: Orioles 8, Royals 3; Reds 13, Cubs 5; Diamondbacks 7, Pirates 1; Phillies 10, Brewers 6; Dodgers 4, Rockies 1; Cardinals 11, Padres 2; Giants 7, Marlins 2; Angels 4, Mariners 2.
