He cracked a home run, a triple and tallied five RBI in the contest. Boston manager John Farrell says the swelling has gone down some, but he indicated it might be a stretch for Uehara to return this weekend. With one out the fun started-and by fun I mean dumpster fire.
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Boston improved to 2-2 on its eight-game trip.
J.D. Martinez hit an RBI double on a ground ball past Sandoval to tie the game, 3-3, in the sixth.
Norris, one of three left-handers acquired July 30 in a trade that sent All-Star David Price to Toronto, allowed four hits and a run in 7 1-3 innings at Baltimore on Sunday in his Tigers’ debut.
Earlier in the seventh it was Bradley Jr. who allowed for the Red Sox’ third run thanks to his first home run of the season.
I earned it. That’s why I’m playing next year. “He had a high pitch count”.
The financial resources Detroit dumped into its roster were invested aggressively because the team has been among the AL’s prime contenders over the last half-decade, so Dombrowski deserves credit for getting the club to that position in the first place. I want to put up numbers. “That’s what hurt me”.
That was the only big blemish on Verlander’s day, which saw him dance around softly hit infield singles and shoddy defense behind him over six innings.
Krol could not, and couldn’t escape the seventh inning when Jackie Bradley Jr. cleared the bases with a three-run triple into the rightfield corner. The 7-2 win that culminated at Comerica Park catapulted the Red Sox rookie lefty Henry Owens to one his first big league victory, while Bradley Jr. notched five RBIs or runs batted in during the said series.
“We thought he was going to be throwing a lot of fastballs and he didn’t do that, ” said Detroit’s Anthony Gose, who struck out the first two times he faced Kelly. We’ve got to get outs. He more than held his own in both starts, limiting the Tigers to three hits while walking four and striking out two. “I had confidence that we were going to come back”.
Home plate umpire Ben May and Detroit Tigers trainer Kevin Rand look over Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Sunday, August 9, 2015, in Detroit.
Minutes before the first pitch of Boston’s game against the Detroit Tigers on Friday night, Napoli was removed from the lineup. He batted.275/.379/.552 with 54 homers and 131 RBIs over 221 games with Texas.
That’s really all the Rangers are looking for from the free agent-to-be, who has made a career of mashing left-handed pitching. In the midst of the worst season of his 10-year career, with his contract set to expire, he was scratched minutes before the opener of a three-game series and traded to Texas for a player to be named or cash.
Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias got into a dustup with catcher James McCann in the dugout during the sixth inning. “That”, enthused Napoli to a group of young teammates, “is why you hit the cutoff man!”
Neither player spoke to reporters and others refused to say anything beyond that the matter was settled.
“He’s still a Major League player”, Ausmus said about Bradley. This season he appeared 329 times behind the plate and hit 13 long balls.
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So Ausmus brought in the recently-recalled Tom Gorzelanny with his new arm slot, designed to get lefties out better to face the left-handed Bradley Jr.in the top of the seventh, with the Tigers down 2-1.
