Price is 5-0 with a 2.06 ERA in his last five starts for the Red Sox, who pulled into a first-place tie with Toronto atop the American League East with Tuesday’s 5-1 victory.Boston’s starting pitchers improved to 15-8 with a 3.06 ERA since August 1 after Clay Buchholz allowed one run over 6 2/3 innings in Tuesday’s win, but rookie third baseman Yoan Moncada is having a series to forget. Wright lasted only four innings, giving up four runs on seven hits, in his last start Wednesday against Tampa Bay. “From the first pitch today you can see him finishing aggressively”. You just knew he’d come around. There are tons of Red Sox fans invading San Diego for this series, but their cheers were not enough to power a suddenly dormant offense.
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Added Rosales: “I was just staying on the fastball”.
Pomeranz has struggled big-time in his career against the Padres, going 0-4 with an 8.10 ERA in seven career games (four starts). San Diego’s uniform will be white with pinstripes and SAN DIEGO arched across the chest while the Red Sox will be wearing grey with BOSTON across in blue and red.
Brandon Mauer picked up his eighth save of the season for the Padres.
Spoiler alert: Ortiz is now 2-for-7 with three walks as a pinch-hitter this season, hitting.192 in such situations for his career (19-for-99, 5 homers). The Red Sox are 13-6 in interleague play this season with one game remaining.2. “I think my stuff is playing a little bit better, especially from lefties”. Working exclusively from the stretch, Buchholz allowed a run, eight hits and struck out six in facing the Padres for the first time. He struck out five with a walk.
Chris Young instantly sent the first pitch of the 8th inning into the bleachers to cut the Padres lead in half.
But Hand fetched a grounder from Dustin Pedroia, caught a break when Hand’s wild-pitch strikeout hit Sandy Leon to stick the tying run back at third base and then struck out Xander Bogaerts.
“We got a couple of opportunities with really good hitters at the plate, ” Farrell said.
After scoring a combined 27 runs in the first two games this weekend, the Red Sox’ bats went cold in the latter two. Boston dropped their game on Monday against the Padres but responded yesterday and continued their hit parade against the Padres who haven’t had a great season and will finish well short of the playoff race. “Whenever my name is called I try to go out and give our team the best chance that I can to win, and I’m feeling good right now”. But with two on and none out, he got Bradley to ground into a double play and fanned Yoan Moncada on a full-count offspeed pitch.
When asked about the final at-bat, Ortiz simply said, “Just got myself out”.
Jedd Gyorko and Matt Adams homered for St. Louis to extend the team’s streak of games with at least one home run to a club-record 24.
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The former Padres ace got outpitched by Edwin Jackson on Monday and the Boston Red Sox fell to San Diego 2-1. He has been on the Red Sox disabled list since August 25. Manager John Farrell said there’s no timetable for Wright’s return.
