Edgar Martinez, the former Mariners great who set the standard at designated hitter prior to Ortiz, came out with the first gift, and it was a definite keepsake. In the end, the night belonged to Hisashi Iwakuma. “He went down in there pretty hard”. And I looked at the video of what I’ve been doing recently.
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“I was pulling my front shoulder and rushing”, Diaz said. Iwakuma came into the game with a career 8.59 ERA in five starts against them, having given up 21 runs in 22 innings pitched.
Iwakuma struck out seven and walked none, leaving in the eighth after Benintendi’s second hit.
Brock Holt’s RBI single in the 11th inning lifted the Boston Red Sox to a 3-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night.
They were the only three hits allowed by Porcello until Zunino’s single in the eighth but enough to hand the right-hander his first loss since May 17 against Kansas City. “I did a lot of work in the weight room”. Reliever Blake Parker also made his Mariners debut and labored through the 10 – literally, as his wind-up seems to take as much energy as a Greco-Roman wrestling match – without giving up a run. Offensively, Xander Bogaerts leads Boston with 140 hits, Mookie Betts has 70 RBI and Dustin Pedroia has 12 home runs. The first time Red Sox fans heard his name he was wrestling on the pitcher’s mound with Kevin Youkilis like a bunch of WWE wannabes.
“It really is”, Mariners manager Scott Servais said.
It got hairy, however, before it ended. The Mariners sent up newly tapped closer Edwin Diaz and he was able to secure the save and the win for the Mariners.
In this one, he gave up a one-out single to O’Malley and two-out walk to Franklin Gutierrez.
But Diaz closed it out. “I would expect it to be a couple of days at least”, Farrell told reporters. All these games are winner-take-all, so if you lose you’re done, if you win, you move on to one more game, and the last team standing will make the post-season.
With the win, the Red Sox vaulted back past the Tigers and into the second wild-card spot.
Cruz’s leadoff homer in the second inning opened the scoring. Sox 3-0. All the while David Price just keep pitching scoreless inning after scoreless inning on the other side.
Boston Red Sox catcher Sandy Leon applies the tag as Seattle Mariners’ Seth Smith strikes out to end the 11th inning of a baseball game, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, in Seattle. But a gusting wind (perhaps) slowed the flight, and Nori Aoki caught the ball on the track. The ball caromed into center field and permitted Shaw to score.
The Mariners’ second hit came in the sixth. Zunino’s homer was 427 feet to center field on a night swirling wind appeared to be knocking down fly balls to that part of the outfield. It went a long way.
Twins 13, Indians 5: Joe Mauer had four hits and four RBIs, Brian Dozier hit a three-run homer and Minnesota continued its mastery over Cleveland.
Adam Lind cracked a changeup to right field for another homer in the seventh. You could see that he was rushing a little bit. The walked nine times against Boston pitchers, but turned none of those walks into runs…Robinson Cano was 0-for-5, which dropped his average to.297. And there are going to be nights when he’s not going to be quite as sharp. “You’ve got to do more on offense. He still has a chance to get through it”.
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But he had arguably his most dominant performance of the 2016 season here against the Mariners with the game tied 2-2.
