The Giants are 0-5 since the All-Star break after losing this two-game interleague series. 500 for the first time since April.
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Wednesday was a trying night for Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants pitchers at Fenway Park – well, except for Matt Barnes.
The 27-year-old lefty was spotted an 8-0 lead after three innings and proceeded to let the Giants climb back in with five runs in the top of the fourth, including home runs by Mac Williamson and Trevor Brown.
Ramirez also reached base when he was hit by a pitch in the fourth.
REDS 6, BRAVES 3: In Cincinnati, Tucker Barnhart and Joey Votto hit two-run homers, and Cincinnati rallied to beat Atlanta Braves and win the season series between the NL’s worst teams. Mookie Betts leads Boston with 123 hits, Xander Bogaerts has 59 RBI and David Ortiz has 23 home runs. Come the later innings, he would do just that. That staked Boston to a 5-0 lead, one that continued to grow without Cain on the mound.
Earlier you read about the tension heating up in the 4th inning.
“I think every kid growing up, playing in Fenway would like to hit a ball over the Green Monster”, Williamson said.
Ramirez’s first career three-homer game gave him 11 for the season.
In Pittsburgh, Jonathan Lucroy had a two-run single in the sixth inning and finished with three RBIs in Milwaukee’s victory over Pittsburgh. The Red Sox are 5-0 in their last 5 during game 1 of a series and 8-2 in Wrights last 10 starts.
Harper’s 20th home run of the season, a two-run blast, traveled an estimated 451 feet off Bud Norris in the first inning. That’s his 20th homer.
Jonathan Villar, Hernan Perez and Ryan Braun had two hits each for Milwaukee and Chris Carter and Scooter Gennett drove in two runs apiece while the Brewers jumped on starter Jeff Locke (8-6).
Carlos Torres (2-1) won in relief of Chase Anderson, who struggled once again but was bailed out by an offense that took it to Locke (8-6). After his extraordinary escape act, Barnes turned in two more scoreless innings of work, taking an out-of-control game and finally settling it down. Hellickson evened his mark at 7-1. 182 opponents’ batting average-against, made it look easy against the Giants through three hitless innings with a sharp curveball and his signature cutter.
“I don’t hit homers when I try to hit homers”, he explained to reporters after Boston’s 11-7 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Naquin had his first multi-homer game. Jason Kipnis and Carlos Santana also hit home runs.
Carlos Carrasco (7-3) only allowed one hit in six shutout innings, a one-out double by Cheslor Cuthbert in the fourth walked two in the sixth for his only other baserunners.
Ex-Padre Jedd Gyorko homered for the fifth straight game off San Diego pitching, connecting twice with all three RBIs in a 3-2 victory that gave the St. Louis Cardinals a doubleheader sweep. He also homered in the first half won by the Cardinals 4-2.
Minnesota’s Joe Mauer and Detroit’s Ian Kinsler homered in the first inning, and that was all the scoring until the ninth. The Tigers wasted a strong performance by starter Justin Verlander, who gave up a run and two hits in eight innings. Ramirez went 3 for 4 tonight with three home runs.
Home runs are up this season, and so are suspicions that the baseballs are wound tighter. Cincinnati isn’t much better at 36-59. Barnes got Conor Gillaspie to pop-up, and that was all she wrote for the frame that seemed certain to derail the Sox.
Josh Donaldson and Edwin Encarnacion each hit two-run homers and the Toronto Blue Jays routed the Arizona Diamondbacks 10-4. He’s baseball’s leading hitter with a. 357 average and is 12 for his last 17 in his last four games.
– The Cubs added a bullpen piece, acquiring left-handed pitcher Mike Montgomery from the Mariners for prospects Dan Vogelbach and Paul Blackburn.
Brad Ziegler to serve as closer with Koji Uehara headed to DL: With interim Red Sox closer Koji Uehara on the 15-day disabled list with a right pectoral strain, right-hander Brad Ziegler will, for the most part, get a majority of the save situations. Correspondingly, RHP Noe Ramirez was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket….
He was voted the 2004 Conn Smythe trophy victor as playoff MVP when he led Tampa Bay to the title.
“A great night for Hanley, both offensively and defensively”, Red Sox manager John Farrell said of Ramirez, who also flashed the leather and made some impressive plays in the field. Leon keeps adding to the fantastic season he is having.
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