Brock Holt #12 of the Boston Red Sox celebrates his home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks with teammate Sandy Leon #3 during the sixth inning at Fenway Park on August 13, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts. “I basically just swung my way out of it”.
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“It makes you feel pretty good anytime your name’s said with his”. Mookie Betts has the possibility of joining Ted Williams, Tony Conigliaro and Nomar Garciaparra as the only players in Red Sox history to hit 30 home runs before their age-24 season. He is aiming to become Boston’s first 20-game victor since Josh Beckett in 2007 and has plenty of starts left to get there.
Arizona Diamondbacks’ Zack Greinke delivers a pitch against the Boston Red Sox in the first inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016, in Boston.
MARLINS 5, WHITE SOX 4: At Miami, left fielder Christian Yelich threw out pinch-runner Carlos Sanchez trying to score from second base on a two-out single in the ninth inning, and the Marlins beat the Chicago White Sox. We just went after it, tried to throw strikes, tried to get us back in the dugout as quickly as possible.
With a chance to make it four homers in his final at-bat in the eighth, Betts grounded out to third base.
“These last couple of days I was off”, Betts said. Betts recently moved him from leadoff to the three-spot, and in 18 at-bats he hit.389 (7-for-18) with three homers, 10 RBIs and two doubles.
Mookie Betts celebrates after blasting three home runs in one game.
“It just seemed like my stuff was really flat today”, he said.
Steven Matz took a no-hitter into the eighth inning as the New York Mets beat the San Diego Padres, while Ryan Braun hit two home runs and collected six RBIs to power a 7-3 Milwaukee Brewers win over the Cincinnati Reds.
The Diamondbacks took a 2-0 lead in in the first inning on Rickie Weeks’ two-run homer over the Green Monster.
Boston’s second inning began with four straight hits, including Andrew Benintendi’s RBI double.
Orlando hit a three-run homer off Hector Santiago (10-7) in the fourth, capping a six-run inning. After surrendering a leadoff single to Jean Segura, he recorded nine straight outs before Michael Bourn connected for a solo shot into the right field box seats in the fourth.
Anthony Rendon homered and drove in four as the Washington Nationals crushed the Atlanta Braves 9-1, keeping them 8.5 games clear at the top of the NL East. He gave up 11 in a start for Kansas City, against the Diamondbacks on June 10, 2005. Arizona C Welington Castillo (bereavement list) is expected back with the team Monday. The Red Sox will need more games from Price like the one he pitched on Saturday for Boston to succeed down the stretch.
If you thought Friday’s game was bad, this one made that look like a close-fought and competitive struggle.
Dustin Pedroia had five hits for Boston.
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The Red Sox would prefer not to think about where they would be without Betts, which is why they held their breath last week when he had to leave Wednesday night’s game against the Yankees with discomfort in his calf.
