Baltimore Orioles’ J.J. Hardy, right, celebrates his two-run home run that also drove in Pedro Alvarez (24) in front of Boston Red Sox’s Blake Swihart, behind, during the seventh inning of a baseball game in Boston, Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Tune in on 105.7 The Fan (no streaming). Big Papi is the greatest DH in the game’s illustrious history, and is a member or the storied 500 career home runs club.
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There has been some talk that the Boston Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts could be a sleeper candidate for the American League Most Valuable Player (MVP) award this year.
Mariners 4, Rangers 2 • Dae-Ho Lee hit a two-run, pinch-homer with two outs in the 10th, giving Seattle its first victory at home.
“I think if you’d have told us when the season started that we’d get off to the start we did, I think we’d have been happy with it”, said first baseman Chris Davis, who drove in the Orioles’ only runs Wednesday with a two-run homer.
Jimenez struggles with his control from time to time but was in the zone in his season debut against Minnesota, striking out nine without issuing a walk in seven innings en route to a win.
The NY Yankees were winners in Toronto last night, getting the go-ahead and eventual winning run on a hit by Jacob Ellsbury in a 3-2 victory north of the border.
Baltimore is now 7-0 on the season, 2-0 on the road and 4-2 with the under. Brad Brach (2-0) pitched a ideal eighth for the win. It was not a treat.RAYS 5, INDIANS 1 Logan Forsythe and Evan Longoria both hit two-run home runs in the eighth inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Indians.
After scoring nine runs in each of their first two games of the series, and averaging 5.7 runs a game this season, the Orioles were held to their fewest runs of the season on Wednesday. Victor Martinez contributed a two-run double and Ian Kinsler supplied a solo homer and scored three times. The hit hooked toward the line and away from left fielder Jeff Francoeur, who dove to make a catch, but the ball went off his glove. But then Clay Buchholz took the mound, and we were reminded that a rotation is more than one guy. But I’m glad we got the series win and we hung in there and battled back tonight.
Kim drew walks in each of his first two plate appearances against Kelly. After Buchholz got out of the first inning without any harm, the Red Sox’ bats looked to continue their hot starts to games.
The potent offense has masked the inability of Orioles’ starters to pitch deep into games, with only Ubaldo Jimenez completing more than five innings.
CF Adam Jones (rib injury) was not in the starting lineup for the fifth straight game Tuesday but was available off the bench – although he did not play. They each barely got through five innings and of the 10 half-innings pitched exactly one was of the 1-2-3 variety.
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Rockies 10, Giants 6 • Nolan Arenado homered twice, doubled and singled to drive in a career-high seven runs, rookie Trevor Story had two triples and host Colorado tied a franchise record with 12 extra-base hits. They started the year with two of their better pitchers – Kevin Gausman and Brian Matusz – on the disabled list. “You never know what could have happened after that”. But Pedro Martinez’s wife, Carolina, came to sit with her, tricking Ortiz into thinking they were simply there to get a prime view of the pregame pomp.Craig Kimbrel reacts after allowing a three-run homer hit by Chris Davis.
