The Chicago Cubs own the best record in the National League and the White Sox have done the same in the American League.
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Constant communication has made this outfield better, Eaton said. The 31-year-old was ready to admit as much after the game. Good pitchers will, from time-to-time, shut good lineups down.
Not to mention consistent starting pitching.
David Ortiz hit his 509th home run to put the Boston Red Sox ahead to stay in a 5-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night. Taking this in to account, the right hander had a pretty crucial outing in Game 2 of the series against the tough Chicago White Sox.
Chicago is 19-8 on the season, 7-3 at home and 16-8-3 with the under. “That’s what I learned today”, Rodon said.
Peavy (1-3) allowed seven runs and eight hits in six innings with eight strikeouts and one walk.
The 26-year-old Smith was acquired from Seattle in the Wade Miley trade in December after posting a 2.31 ERA in 70 appearances as a rookie with the Mariners last season. Farrell said that Quintana is a very good pitcher who rarely throws in the middle of the plate and has many different looks he gives hitters. “He pitches to the edge so effectively”.
Abreu is batting.440 with five home runs and 15 RBIs during a 13-game hitting streak against the Red Sox. The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for Boston (15-11). It’s worth noting that he has struck out seven times with no walks against southpaws this year, perhaps a suggestion that he has become particularly aggressive when guessing at opponents’ offerings.
Before Wednesday, he’d allowed five earned runs in four of his first five starts.
In addition to Ortiz, the night was also important to Red Sox starting pitcher Clay Buchholz, who pitched seven strong innings and gave up just two runs.
“David is in such a good spot right now offensively”, Farrell said.
In the first inning it looked like we were getting the typical April Clay even though the calendar said May. Koji Uehara pitched a scoreless eighth, and Craig Kimbrel pitched around a walk to Abreu for the save.
Todd Frazier increased Chicago’s lead to 2-0 in the third inning when he drove home Austin Jackson with a groundout.
Brett Lawrie went 3-for-3 with a home run and double in Sunday’s win over the Orioles, finishing just a triple short of the cycle. Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated noted that Betances had thrown 355 first-pitch curveballs in his career; Ortiz was the first to hit a homer on one of those pitches.
The White Sox are off to their best start after 27 games since 2006. “June, July and August haven’t come yet, and that’s when you really truly find out what a team is made out of”. In right, he’s able do his thing in his neck of the woods, and he’s flourishing, leading all of baseball with 13 defensive runs saved.
– Right-hander Carson Smith made his season debut with a ideal seventh, striking out Jackson to end the frame. “My job is to get back up there and do anything I can to help the team”. “After that, I settled in”. The Windy City is right now the pinnacle of baseball and now the White Sox have taken another in-form team, the Boston Red Sox, to a competitive series.
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3B Pablo Sandoval will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery Tuesday to fix a torn labrum in his left shoulder. The over/under total for the game is not listed.
