David Ortiz cracked a two-run home run in the fifth inning to reach 1,500 RBI with the Red Sox and had a single that set up a third-inning run to lead Boston to a rain-prolonged 3-2 victory Saturday night over the fading Detroit Tigers.
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Shane Greene scuffled in an inning of relief work, allowing four runs on four hits, including a two-run home run to Red Sox rookie Andrew Benintendi.
Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz acknowledges fans at Comerica Park as he is honored by the Detroit Tigers before a baseball game Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016, in Detroit. At the end of August and beginning of September, the Tigers play the Chicago White Sox six times in 10 days, a team that Upton has hit.298 against this season.
J.D. Martinez hit a long home run in his first at-bat, but his second one might have been even more impressive. Benintendi then launched his first career homer into the left field stands to score Shaw and put the score at 10-5.
Reds 9, Dodgers 2: Relief pitcher Michael Lorenzen and Joey Votto hit three-run homers and Tim Adleman pitched five shutout innings as Cincinnati defeated Los Angeles.
The two-run homer to Ortiz was the 40-year-old slugger’s 28th of the season.
John Farrell thought the two big hits were one of Boston’s few bright spots. Porcello clearly did suffer an injury and he must have been attempting to pitch through it, understandable in one’s first season with a new club that just agreed to pay one a large sum of money.
On Friday night, they finally got to see it. During said time he allowed below league-average numbers in BAA, OBA, and SLG with values of.283, .328, and.426, respectively. Owens will replace Eduardo Rodriguez, who left his last start with a no-hitter after four innings because of tightness in his left hamstring. Junichi Tazawa proved again to be fairly toast-like as the Tigers scored another couple runs off him in the sixth, though the fact that he finished the inning by striking out Miguel Cabrera kind of feels like it’s going to cost the Red Sox a game sometime in the next month. He is likely to be used off the bench to give Red Sox outfielders a breather.
“We’ve had a lot of battles”, Verlander said.
Ortiz hit a hanging inside 0-1 curve into the right-field seats off Daniel Norris (1-2) following a leadoff double by Xander Bogaerts.
In fairness, he’d just picked apart one of Boston’s competitors for the A.L. East title. He tipped his cap to the crowd as he walked off.
In recent weeks the Detroit Tigers have been without the services of Cameron Maybin, Jose Iglesias, and Nick Castellanos in the batting order.
Red Sox: INF Devin Marrero was optioned back to Pawtucket to clear room for Owens.
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Quite simply, the Red Sox jumped on the heater if it was there, and waited for it if it wasn’t. Ryan Howard also homered for Philadelphia, which avoided a three-game series sweep. For example, between 2009 and 2015, Porcello commenced 60.3% of opponent at-bats with a strike, found himself in 3-0 counts in 4.2% of all at-bats, and only induced 0-2 counts in 22.7% of all at-bats. Anibal Sanchez (6-12, 5.94) will face Kyle Gibson (5-7, 4.90).
