Boston’s Hanley Ramirez avoided a significant injury and suffered only a sprained left wrist after slipping and falling on his way into the Red Sox clubhouse after Tuesday night’s loss to the Mariners.
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Boston’s Drew Pomeranz gave up two runs on four hits over six innings.
Almost as impressive, Ortiz has more walks (54) than strikeouts (52)-a feat he previously accomplished in 2006, 2007 and 2012. Farrell made a decision to go with Kimbrel to finish off the inning to make sure we weren’t looking at a walk off. Kimbrel got the 3rd out to send it to extra innings.
Using pinpoint fastball command and diving splitfinger, Iwakuma changed eye levels and kept Red Sox hitters off balance all night to improve to 12-7 on the season.
“Games like that you have to find a way, and we just didn’t get it done”, manager Scott Servais said. Realistically, the actual difference lies less in the strategy of having a certain batter profile in a certain spot and more in the hopes that any shake-up will help bring the lineup to life. On Wednesday, he worked 7 1/3 scoreless innings, struck out seven and walked none. “I did a lot of work in the weight room”.
The Boston Red Sox were not kind to Porcello.
In five previous starts against Boston, Iwakuma had allowed 21 earned runs in 22 innings. He achieved this prestigious award while playing for the Arkansas Razorbacks where he topped the NCAA in home runs with 20 in his final season there. “The guy last night (Wade LeBlanc), the guy today, nothing insane”. “I looked at the video with what they were doing recently and we had a good meeting with (Mike) Zunino before the game and it paid off”.
Will the Mariners make it back-to-back upsets of the Red Sox when the two teams meet again tonight at 10:10PM ET?
Angels 8, Athletics 6: Albert Pujols hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Los Angeles a victory over Oakland.
Travis Shaw, who had a solo homer in the second, opened the 11th against Cody Martin (1-2) with an opposite-field single to left against the shift.
STAT PACK: Nelson Cruz is batting.316 his season in 57 games as a designated hitter with 18 homers and 50 RBIs. MLB Statcast put the distance at 441 feet, exiting the bat at 112 miles per hour.
The Mariners’ second hit came in the sixth. On Irish Heritage night at the park and inspired by the pregame bagpipes, O’Malley hit just the second homer of his career, leading off with a solo shot to left field to cut the lead to 2-1. Statcast had it at 427 feet and registering 108 miles per hour off the bat. O’Malley went sprawling for the ball, only to have it clip his glove and continue into center field. “To hold that team to two runs until the 11th inning, you’ve got to do more offensively”. Adam Lind sat on a 2-0 changeup and yanked it into the seats for his 16th homer of the season. Is 1-0 with a 5.60 ERA in three starts since coming off DL (right calf strain). It was O’Malley’s first of the year and second of his career and it made it 2-1 Sox.
The Red Sox loaded the bases with one out in the first on singles by Xavier Bogaerts and David Ortiz and a walk to Dustin Pedroia, but Miranda escaped by striking out Jackie Bradley Jr. and getting Aaron Hill on a fly out to right.
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Boston jumped on Miranda with back-to-back one-out singles and a walk to load the bases in the first inning.
