Buchholz allowed just six hits in the game, earning his fourth straight win.
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Red Sox OF Mookie Betts was cut down trying to steal third with one out in the eighth. 852 OPS in his first 22 games.
With Sunday being his eighth start, going 4-2 with a 3.69 ERA in those starts, he’s starting to feel more comfortable being in the big leagues.
I could throw just about any pitch I wanted to today. “It doesn’t happen like that very often”.
On Sunday, Ramirez served as the team’s DH with Ortiz playing first and a struggling Mike Napoli on the bench. When you have that you can throw everything off of that, and thats what I was able to do..
The lead wouldn’t hold as the Astros finally got to Rodriguez in the 4th inning with a walk and two singles that scored Luis Valbuena. Its pretty hard to do.. Catcher Jason Castro sent a drive off the wall in left, and Singleton scored from first when left fielder Ramirez fumbled the ball and then threw to the wrong base.
The Red Sox have won five of their last six games when scoring more than three runs.
The ‘Stros only picked up one run in the 4th, but they battled and made Rodriguez chuck 38 pitches.
Designated hitter Hanley Ramirez one-handed a two-run homer over the Green Monster in left field off left-hander Tony Sipp in the seventh inning to give the Red Sox the win.
The Red Sox will host the Miami Marlins on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Astros lost 92 games previous year with a bunch of kids and were supposed to be marginally improved after adding veteran relievers Luke Gregerson and Pat Neshek and hiring manager A.J. This game was nearly entirely about him..
Betts went 2-for-3 and drove in three runs to lead the Boston bats, while shortstop Xander Bogaerts was 2-for-4 with two RBIs.
Hanigan followed that up with his second RBI hit of the game to extend Boston’s lead to two.
NATIONALS 3, GIANTS 1 (at Washington) – Wilson Ramos snapped a tie with a sixth-inning homer, Jordan Zimmermann pitched seven solid innings and the Nationals completed a three-game sweep.
Fastball was sporadic, especially early on, he said.
In the 9th, Koji had to work around a leadoff error by Brock Holt on a ball through his legs at second. Betts’ sacrifice fly to left an inning later brought right fielder Shane Victorino home to make it 2-0.
That lead was quite short-lived, however, as Alexi Ogando came back out for his second inning of relief. The Astros took the opener, 12-8 in 10 innings at Fenway Park, once again slowing the momentum that might have built off Boston’s best road trip of the season.
The railings still up, Farrell joked. Hinch said Rasmus will probably play every other day for the next week…. OF Jake Marisnick (hamstring) arrived in Boston following a minor league rehab stint and was activated from the disabled list after the game.
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“He’s going first to third on a continued play”, Farrell said. “We gave them a couple extra opportunities, and they took full advantage, and get beat on a front-foot, one-handed home run or a one-arm home run, so it’s a tough day”. His last two were losses and combined equal 8.1 innings with 15 earned runs.
