The Gamecock great cracked the first pitch of the 2nd inning in Boston’s home game against Colorado for a double off the Green Monster, extending his hitting streak to 28 straight games. It pushed his hitting streak to 28 games, tying Wade Boggs for the fifth-longest in Red Sox history. Dom DiMaggio holds the franchise record with a 34-game streak in 1949.
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De La Rosa made his first start after spending nearly a month on the disabled list with a left groin strain. He gave up two runs in the first, two more in the second and left with one out in the fourth with two on and one run already in.
Jackie Bradley Jr. started the 2016 season as a career.
Meanwhile, Price did his part from the mound, limiting the Rockies to three runs on five hits and a walk over seven innings. The Indians, meanwhile, are 5-12 in Tomlin’s last 17 starts after allowing two runs or less in their previous game, 2-5 in their last seven games versus a starter with a WHIP less than 1.15 and 2-6 in their last eight road games versus a team with a winning record. Both Sox scored on Ortiz’ opposite field single to left, as the retiring slugger continued to mash the ball all over the field. “They want to be good”, the 40-year-old designated hitter said on Tuesday night after twenty-somethings Bradley and Xander Bogaerts each had a pair of hits in an 8-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies.
– Mookie Betts went 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI on a sacrifice fly.
Helping to anchor one of the top offenses in all of baseball, Ramirez and the Red Sox are in the hunt for their third straight win to remain atop the American League East division.
The Red sox topped the Colorado Rockies, 8-3, in the opener of the three-game set on Tuesday at Fenway Park. With one out in the first, Pedroia reached on an infield hit mishandled by first baseman Mark Reynolds and rode to third on a Bogaerts double.
When Ortiz came up in the eighth with one out and a runner on second, he was intentionally walked.
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Red Sox: RHP Carson Smith had Tommy John surgery and will miss the rest of the season, the team said. De La Rosa was gone after hitting Ramirez on the right foot with a pitch.
