Sizzling Jackie Bradley Jr. hit two more home runs, and he drove in six runs for the second time in the series, and Dustin Pedroia also homered to power Boston to its third straight blowout of the A’s, a 13-3 rout that ran Oakland’s losing streak to five games.
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Tuesday’s Say Hey, Baseball recognizes Bradley’s improvement, Stephen Strasburg’s extension, and more Bartolo Colon first we want to see.
“I’ve been able to do it at every level”.
“It’s been several years since – at least since I’ve been here – that we’ve gone through something like this”, he said. Everybody moves at their own speed. No need to get mad or upset. The A’s needed to shuffle their rotation after getting rained out in Baltimore on Friday and playing a doubleheader the next day.
Phillies 3, Braves 2: Left-hander Adam Morgan allowed one run over seven innings and won for the first time in his hometown as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2 at Turner Field for their third straight victory. The Dodgers had lost their last three meeting with the Mets before Thompson connected off of Hansel Robles for the walk-off victor. During the streak, Bradley is 28-for-68 (.412 batting average) with six homers, five doubles, three triples, 25 RBIs and a 1.290 OPS. If the season were to end today, depending on how you define it, the Red Sox would be the most dominant offense since the American and National Leagues merged. “What we’re doing right now, we gotta keep doing it”. Tonight, they did not, and so decided to make up for it by scoring for the next five straight.
“It was nice. The guys go out there and put up a big lead for me. The bullpen’s in disarray for us”.
Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Eric Surkamp delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston, Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Over time, Bradley learned to be more aggressive early in counts and focus on simply making good contact with the barrel of the bat. In the fourth, Pedroia, who walked, stole second and scored in the third, followed a Mookie Betts single with his sixth homer of the year, off righty Ryan Dull.
After Bradley’s first homer put the Sox up two runs, the A’s responded thanks to a two-out single by Khris Davis that plated both Chris Coghlan and Billy Burns to tie the game at 3-3. Boston then came right back in its half of the inning to retake the lead for good on Chris Young’s RBI double off Fenway’s green monster.
“This is a tough lineup to pitch against because it’s not a one-dimensional type of team, not a one-dimensional type of lineup”, manager John Farrell said after last night’s latest shellacking, 13-3 over the A’s. O’Sullivan was called up on Friday, taking the roster spot of Henry Owens, who was sent to Triple-A Pawtucket.
Bradley was an inconsistent hitter with the Red Sox for parts of three seasons, but that wasn’t really who he was as a player.
Bradley was 3 for 5 and extended his hit streak to 17 games, the longest active run in the majors. And our opponents that we have faced the last three weeks haven’t been the kindest to us either.
The Red Sox will honor one of the great teams in franchise history later this month. He did in a 4-2 win. On pitches away, he will go the opposite way. He’s given up 18 runs in 12 2/3 innings.
A’s starters had pitched to a 7.62 ERA over 801/3 innings in the past 16 games before Manaea’s disastrous outing against Boston (20-13).
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Red Sox: LHP David Price (4-1, 6.75) will be on the mound as Boston’s opens a four-game series against the Astros Thursday. He now has a measly 0.67 career ERA versus Houston.
