Nathan Eovaldi (9-2) gave up three runs on seven hits, striking out four in five innings to win his fourth straight decision.
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Wade Miley (8-8) gave up the tying run on a fifth-inning balk and ran into more trouble in the sixth.
Boston tied it in the third, then Ortiz singled to lead off the fourth and Ramirez homered to make it 3-1. That was hit No. 3,020, tying him with Rafael Palmeiro for 25th on baseball’s all-time list.
Nova left with New York trailing by a run before the bullpen allowed two more to score in Boston’s 5-3 victory over the AL East-leading Yankees.
Tommy Layne got McCann on a grounder, but Headley doubled to score Young and make it 6-3.
“I don’t know how big it was for them, but for me it was pretty big”, the 22-year-old left-hander said after helping Boston beat New York 5-3 on Saturday night to cut the team’s deficit in the AL East to 5 1/2 games. Justin Wilson replaced Adam Warren and, with two on, retired Ryan Hanigan and Mookie Betts to end the threat. Rodriguez, who failed to make his 15th All-Star team, hit first-inning solo homers in each of the first two games of the series and drove in four of the Yankees’ 16 runs over the weekend. Rodriguez served a yearlong suspension in 2014, and the scandal has tarnished his rise up the career home run list.
CINCINNATI – Pitchers Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Hector Santiago of the Los Angeles Angels have been added to the rosters for Tuesday’s All-Star Game in place of Washington’s Max Scherzer and Oakland’s Sonny Gray. Scherzer was delighted to have the opportunity to pitch Sunday, and now the Nationals ace has a feel-good memory to take into the break.
The Sox offense battled back for a 3-2 lead in the third.
Rodriguez, who homered in the first two games, delivered a sixth-inning double to give the Yankees a 4-3 lead.
Drew Storen entered and struck out Chris Davis to earn his 27th save. “It’s easy to say [trade him], and if they had gotten an offer from a team who was desperate for pitching they would have thought long and hard about it. But Ben Cherington was always going to be reluctant to sell until the last minute, and it would have been out of character for him to move Clay Buchholz in late June, early July”. “The first one kind of settled me down”.
Scherzer was selected to the NL All-Star team, but he chose not to pitch in Tuesday’s game.
Boston was looking to win its fifth straight series for the first time since capturing eight in 2013. It was just the third time in nine career starts that he has given up two runs or more.
“He was not available in any capacity,” said manager John Farrell, who added that Ortiz reported the symptoms after Saturday night’s win and exchanged texts with the manager during the night. With the Sox surging, it was a good sign to see the men in pinstripes take two out of three from their rivals.
Miley put the Red Sox behind 2-0 in the second inning when he surrendered a homer to Brian McCann. “Guys are swinging the bats, the pitching is coming around, and guys are all starting to play as a team”.
He was facing the New York Yankees for the first time, and that was plenty.
The Orioles lead the series 36-32, including 23-14 at home.
The moves were announced before Sunday’s game against Houston. “They mean a lot, and that’s a nice series win”. He will approach his return date with an understandably cautious mindset.
Orioles: Davis was back in the lineup after missing Saturday’s game with a stomach virus.
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