The Sox needed this win pretty badly, and David Price delivered it on a silver platter.
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It hardly mattered the way he shut down Seattle’s powerful lineup.
“As the game went on, it looked like he got more powerful in both stuff and command”, Farrell said. I’m still getting used to all of this. “But there’s always room for improvement no matter how good you are”. Im still not satisfied..
Price now is 1-3 with a 2.32 ERA in June.
Sampson’s numbers in the Pirates’ system didn’t dazzle – he was 24-23 with a 4.39 ERA in 85 games over three-plus years – but the Mariners saw upside potential.
Price snapped a personal three-game losing streak with eight sharp innings, Mookie Betts hit a go-ahead homer and the Boston Red Sox beat the Mariners 2-1 on Sunday.
“Whenever it’s either tied us up or drawn us a run closer, I’ve gone out there and given up a run”, Price said – recalled the exact instance in his two prior starts.
Iwakuma (6-5) went seven innings, allowing four runs on nine hits. Craig Kimbrel came out in the 9th and struck out the side to end the game and get his 16th save of the season.
The lefty got just enough support when Betts led off the seventh by hitting a fastball from Diaz (0-1) into the Green Monster seats. I cant say we did too much today..
Seattle starter Taijuan Walker kept the majors’ top scoring team off the scoreboard over five innings after leaving his previous start with a strained tendon in his right foot.
Despite stranding a runner at third base in the first inning, Seattle touched Porcello yet again in the following inning as first baseman Adam Lind lifted a 449-foot leadoff shot to center for his ninth home run of the season, doubling the Mariners advantage.
“Yeah, after the first at-bat”.
“It felt really good leading up to it”, he said. Elias threw 30 pitches in the first inning and was down 2-0 after just three of them.
Seattle manager Scott Servais said before the game that he didn’t think Walker would be 100 percent, but hoped the adrenaline of starting would negate any lingering problem.
Boston finally got to Sampson in the fourth inning with two outs. His ankle was bothering him. I would’ve liked to have kept riding him because he was getting them out.
Gutierrez led off the fourth with a line drive that snuck inside the Pesky Pole in right.
– Xander Bogaerts scored the Red Sox’s first run, going 1-for-3 with a walk.
The first summons, when a calf injury sidelined Felix Hernandez, went to Paxton, but the Mariners turned to Sampson when they determined Miley’s sore shoulder required time on the disabled list. Mariners LHP Wade Miley is feeling better, according to Servais, and should be available to return to the starting rotation when he is eligible June 28.
This was the sort of performance the Sox signed up for when they offered him quite so much money in the offseason.
– Ortiz notched his second stolen base of the season, getting an outrageously good jump off of Diaz to swipe second in the seventh inning. “As you’re scouring and looking around for bullpen depth, it nice to see the guys in your own organization come up and contribute”.
In parts of 5 minor league seasons, Sampson is 33-31 with a 4.01 ERA (264 ER, 592.2 IP) with 422 strikeouts in 105 games, including 102 starts.
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Two starts ago in San Francisco, Price allowed a tiebreaking solo homer in the eighth to a little-known rookie in a 2-1 loss opposite Giants ace Madison Bumgarner.
