Despite walking three and allowing two hits during the inning, Bundy limited the damage to just the pair of runs.
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Zach Britton closed for his 43rd save and Baltimore became the first team to beat Porcello in Boston this season.
The Orioles offence staked Bundy to a big early lead with a five-run second inning against Red Sox left-hander Drew Pomeranz.
Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo and the Cubs can keep closing in on the NL Central crown with a win over the rival Cardinals in St. Louis. Bogaerts hit into a fielder’s choice to bring home Young for the 12th run of the game. Yet Porcello’s the lone Major League Baseball hurler with 20 victories, having gone 14-0 with a 3.03 ERA and 77 strikeouts in the cathedral of Boston. Leading 1-Nil at half time the Cadets scored five times in the second half for a 6-0 rout.
YANKEES 3, DODGERS 0 Jacoby Ellsbury and Didi Gregorius came off the bench and hit back-to-back home runs in the seventh inning, sending NY to a victory over Los Angeles. Price pitched eight strong innings and retired the last 11 out of 12 batters he faced easily.
The Rangers improved to 15-3 against Houston this year. In stride, Manny gobbled it up, set his feet and fired a strike to Chris Davis at first, keeping the game scoreless through the first frame. He swiped second and scored on Elvis Andrus’ two-out triple.
Alex Claudio (4-1) pitched the eighth and Tanner Scheppers worked a flawless ninth for his first save.
Steven Souza Jr. hit a flyball for the final out, and appeared to be upset at the way closer Roberto Osuna celebrated the victory. Toronto is 3-8 in September. Boston was also aided by three solo home runs in three consecutive innings.
It was Hardy’s first homer since an August 29 blast and his 10th of the campaign.
NY has won eight of 10 and is a half-game ahead of St. Louis for the second NL wild card. There was Machado not coming up with Bogaerts’ hard grounder, followed by Steve Pearce catching up to but not able to hold David Ortiz’s long drive. He was hitting.324 with six doubles, a triple, one home run and 10 RBIs. They began the day tied with Baltimore in the AL wild-card race.
Pedroia’s two hits in the first two innings made him 22 for his last 31 at Fenway Park.
John Axford (6-4) pitched one inning. Hardy and Reimold both drove 3-2 pitches for their second-inning homers. The Yankees are now two games off the pace for the wild card and fell a game behind Detroit as well in that chase.
Miami is five games out of a playoff spot.
The result was a 6-3 loss at the hands of the Orioles. Ortiz hit his 536th home run of his career tying him with Mickey Mantle. Matt Kemp also homered. Jonathan Schoop managed an infield single, but he couldn’t cross the dish, sending the game into the seventh-inning stretch with the 5-3 score.
Tony Watson struck out two in the ninth for his 12th save.
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Miley finally recorded an out, then got another on Sandy Leon’s sacrifice fly that gave Boston a 5-0 lead. As usual, Mookie Betts helped the fast start with a two-RBI double in that first inning. He’ll try for better results this weekend against the Rays at home. Sep. Schimpf clobbered the fourth offering and sent it into the center-field bleachers for his 19th homer. He continued to struggle since a July trade from San Diego, falling to 2-5 with Boston.
