The Red Sox still need to figure out who is going to fill in for Kipper as Pawtucket’s pitching coach.
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More insults: The 37 runs are, by far, the most ever surrendered by the Mariners in back-to-back games. The previous high of 20 came on April 17, 1993 against the Tigers.
This is already a weekend to forget for the Mariners, and there’s still one more game to go on Sunday.
Owens, making his third big league start, allowed seven runs and 10 hits in six innings.
“There’s not a lot you can say”, McClendon said. We’ve got a young catcher in Blake Swihart behind the plate. The only silver lining to all of this is we were able to score 10 runs. OF Hanley Ramirez missed his sixth straight game with a bruised left foot. David Ortiz (.263, 53 Rs, 25 HRs, 72 RBIs) continued his strong season yesterday, going 3 for 3 with three RBIs. We need a good start tomorrow. “It was just unfortunate this happened”.
It was the first time since 1950 the Red Sox scored at least 15 runs in consecutive games.
“Embarrassing. That was embarrassing”, Hernandez said. The King previously gave up 10 runs on May 16, 2006, in a 12-6 loss at Oakland.
Cruz reflected on his career-high 21-game hitting streak, which came to an end after an 0-for-3 night. It was a bad outing for Felix. The Red Sox will take on a left-hander (Nuno) in this game and have a 13-19 record against left-handed starting pitchers this season. But in starts he has lost, Hernandez hasn’t been bad, he’s been abysmal.
It all turned out well when Mike Zunino and Kyle Seager delivered RBI singles with the bases loaded in the 12th inning, which rescued the Mariners after they squandered the remnants of a seven-run lead in the ninth inning.
“You feel real fortunate and lucky that they found it when they did”, Ventura said.
Fernando Rodney worked 1.2 scoreless innings.
Scott Lauber of the Boston Herald reported Sandoval was pulled in the second inning after taking a pitch to the elbow, while Tim Britton of the Providence Journal passed along the results of Sandoval’s X-rays.
The Mariners tried to answer the scoring outburst, by getting two runs in the third off Boston starter Wade Miley. Brock Holt, who was on third base, trotted home with the tying run. Robinson Cano hit a two-run homer in the first. His second staked Seattle to a 7-0 lead. Sandoval had a two-run double, Shaw followed with his two-run homer into the Red Sox bullpen, and Holt had a two-run double over the head of leaping center fielder Austin Jackson.
Jacoby Ellsbury’s RBI single off Aaron Loup in the ninth gave the Yankees a three-run cushion.
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“When they mentioned the word ‘cancer, ‘ it’s something that it doesn’t matter where it comes from, it kind of impacts you”, Ortiz said. Cecchini, however, failed to execute a sacrifice bunt and struck out swinging for one of his three punchouts.
