On Wednesday night, Gausman outpitched Porcello as the Orioles took the second of three games at Fenway Park, cutting Boston’s lead in the American League East to one game.
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Coming into the series, Toronto still seemed like the strongest team in the AL East besides Boston.
“To think you can make one run stand up in this ballpark against as good an offensive team they are is a real tribute to how well Kevin and Zach pitched”.
Mark Trumbo led off the second with a single and Chris Davis walked, then with one out Hardy broke the scoreless tie with a towering homer that bounced off one of the signs above the Green Monster in left field. Yet Porcello’s the lone Major League Baseball hurler with 20 victories, having gone 14-0 with a 3.03 ERA and 77 strikeouts in the cathedral of Boston.
J.J. Hardy lined a ball off Porcello’s leg with two outs in the second, and after that, he retired 17 straight batters until Hardy singled with one out in the eighth.
In Houston, Jurickson Profar hit a tiebreaking single and AL West-leading Texas rallied for two runs in the ninth inning.
Red Sox: RHP Steven Wright (right shoulder strain) is expected to start throwing next week in Fort Myers, Florida. Farrell said the knuckleballer will need to gradually regain some arm strength and his return during the regular season is uncertain. “If it got me in the shin it might have been a little bit tougher”, Porcello said.
“We get a chance to win another series on the road, which is something we knew we were going to have to do”, Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said. LHP Blake Snell (5-8, 3.62) starts for the Rays. Tanaka has had a solid season with a 13-4 record in 29 starts with a 3.04 ERA over 186.2 innings.
The 2017 Boston Red Sox schedule was released on Wednesday, and includes a rare visit from a few National League foes.
Meanwhile, the Yankees are hanging around behind the O’s and Blue Jays in fourth place. The one run ended up deciding the series, with another to follow next week when the Orioles host the Red Sox for four games. “I felt like we needed to go to the bullpen at that point”. “So I’m optimistic that this will turn and turn in a hurry”. But it will be their performance head-to-head against the Red Sox that likely will decide whether they still have a real chance at the division title when they head out for their season-ending six-game road trip to Toronto and NY. The results were not immediately available.
But so was Orioles’ righthander Kevin Gausman and the latter walked away the victor on Wednesday night. Sanchez, the rookie catcher who can’t seem to stop hitting home runs, belting his fourteenth of the year in just thirty-six games.
Dylan Bundy (9-5) gave up three runs over 5 1-3 innings.
Gausman boasts a 1.08 ERA in four starts since August 23.
NEW YORK (AP) – For Clayton Kershaw and the Los Angeles Dodgers, pitching five innings was almost ideal.
Miami’s Ichiro Suzuki scored two runs and drove in another in the 900th multi-hit game of his career as the Marlins boosted their fading wild-card hopes with a 7-5 win over Atlanta.
The lefty ace threw 64 pitches in his second start since missing 10 weeks because of a herniated disk in his lower back.
The game went south and quick for the Sox last night. They kind of like when people sell them short.
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“The beauty of playing the teams ahead of you is that if we win series, we’ll be making up games”, Chase Headley said.
