Tanaka has had a solid season with a 13-4 record in 29 starts with a 3.04 ERA over 186.2 innings. Boston was also aided by three solo home runs in three consecutive innings.
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Xander Bogaerts homered for Boston, which had won five of six and missed a chance to gain a little space in the crowded field of division leaders.
The American League East has been a dog fight all season long and with 5 series’ remaining for each team, the battle for the AL East pennant is a four team race.
A five-run second inning has put the Baltimore Orioles two games behind the Boston Red Sox in the American League East after a 6-3 win Tuesday night.
REDS 3, BREWERS 0: Scott Schebler hit a two-run single in Cincinnati’s three-run first inning and four pitchers teamed up on the Reds’ eighth shutout of the season in a victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night.
Baltimore took two of three in the series at Fenway Park and pulled a game ahead of slumping Toronto for the top AL wild card.
One of those teams still eyeing the division title or at least a wild card berth is the NY Yankees and they gained ground last night after a 3-0 win over the L.A. Dodgers in the Bronx. Up came J.J. Hardy, who hit a towering three-run shot over the Green Monster for a 3-0 Orioles lead.
The fateful second inning began with a single and walk before a fielder’s choice left two on with one out.
If you were at the game and looked away for a moment, you would’ve thought something life threatening had happened with the gasp the Fenway faithful let out. The Red Sox sit two games clear of Baltimore and Toronto, four games ahead of NY, in the East but are down to eight home games left in the regular season.
“(A five-run deficit) in Fenway Park is nothing”, Shaw said. “Unfortunately offensively, there was a couple times we had guys in scoring position and we just didn’t come up with the hits”. He has pitched erratically since a July trade from the Padres and has a 4.60 ERA in 11 starts with Boston.
After Trumbo homer, Porcello retired 18 of the next 19 hitters before a one-out single in the eighth.
Price (16-8) allowed two runs on two hits and zero walks, striking out nine in eight innings for his seventh win in as many starts.
“I think I’m just being a lot more consistent with all my pitches”, Gausman said. “He’s going to make a great contribution, no doubt”, said Boston manager John Farrell, whom Cherington hired in 2013.
“It’s pretty frustrating”, Pomeranz said.
Bundy unraveled slightly in the bottom of the second, walking Ryan Hanigan and Dustin Pedroia with the bases loaded for Boston’s first two runs. Most recently, he limited the Blue Jays to two runs on six hits and a walk in seven frames. 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. Gausman on the road was bad for much of the year, but now he’s had a quality start in three of his last four road games and finally broke that whole “winless on the road” thing back on August 28.
The Red Sox will be at home for four games against the resilient Yankees, so the scoreboard watching at Camden Yards will be intense.
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YANKEES 3, DODGERS 0: Jacoby Ellsbury and Didi Gregorius came off the bench to hit back-to-back homers in the seventh inning for host NY, which won its eighth in 10 games.
