LHP Drew Pomeranz, the Cleveland Indians’ top draft pick and the fifth player taken overall in the 2010 draft, on Monday finally made his first start at Progressive Field on Monday, but not for the team that drafted him.
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“I looked at Gene Lamont in about the eighth inning and I said, ‘Jesus, this guy is not going to make it easy'”.
The Red Sox closed in on co-leaders Baltimore and Toronto, which lost the outright lead after a shutout defeat at the New York Yankees.
Francisco Lindor doubled against Craig Kimbrel leading off the ninth and Mike Napoli walked. The game was a makeup from an April 7 postponement because of weather. Third baseman Aaron Hill led off with a single to right-center field, and first baseman Travis Shaw, a Kent State University product, followed with a double to deep left. Boston appears to be on one again, having won four straight games to stay in the three-team battle for the American League East lead. “In both leagues this season, he”s 9-9 with a 2.99 ERA.
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“We knew for a long time that we’re going to have to come back and play this game, so you just make the best of the situation”, Ortiz said. Pomeranz pitched 7 2/3 innings, allowing just two runs on five hits with six strikeouts and two walks.
Given that the Sox have a weird night-day combination coming up – in Baltimore on Wednesday night, in Detroit on Thursday afternoon – they needed this one.
Joey Rickard is 3-for-5 with 1 double. He made the error that led to the unearned run. His 10th career slam came three batters after Shin-Soo Choo broke his left forearm when he was hit by a pitch. In Oakland his last time up, Tillman bagged a seven-inning win with five hits and two earned. Price has gone at least eight innings in eight of his 25 starts.
Sam Dyson closed for his 27th save.
The home run also was good for the slugger’s 1,733rd-career RBI, which tied him with Honus Wagner for 22nd all-time. Ortiz also homered on April 5 and 6.
Scott Schebler homered for the Reds to snap an 0-for-28 slump. Wright, who is 13-5 with a 3.01 ERA, suffered the injury while pinch-running during in a game against the Dodgers on August 7.
Nationals 5, Rockies 4: Jayson Werth and Wilson Ramos homered, and Bryce Harper doubled in the go-ahead run in the seventh. “I had got him out on fastballs away and I kind of thought he might be looking out that way to try and ambush the heater, so I just tried to get a cutter in off the plate and I left it in kind of a good spot to hit a home run and that’s what he did”. And there’s no use moaning about a very weird schedule this season-home games at Fenway were front-loaded, and the team’s now on a four-city road trip-since sometimes you get a break, sometimes not.
Jordan Lyles (3-4) took the loss.
In Phoenix, Welington Castillo, just back from a six-day leave due to complications with the birth of his son, matched his career high of four hits as Arizona beat NY.
Castillo doubled twice, drove in two runs and scored twice for the last-place Diamondbacks, who swept three games from the defending NL champions last week in NY.
Betts hit a three-run drive in the fifth inning and added a tiebreaking two-run shot in the seventh. One of his two walks went to the 43-year-old Colon on a 3-2 pitch. Last in the AL West, Los Angeles (49-69) is a season-high 20 games under.500.
The last time the team dropped 11 in a row was during the 1999 season. On Sunday, in contrast, the Orioles overcame a 6-run deficit against the Giants-which of course pissed me off to no end-and held their position in the standings.
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His nine combined victories, 147 strikeouts and 135 1/3 innings in 2016 are all career highs.
