– A subtly important play came just before the Bradley homer, when Sandy Leon got the stagnant Red Sox offense going with a leadoff bunt base-hit against the Padres’ shift. The only run he allowed came on a solo home run by Ryan Schimpf in the bottom of the fourth after Bradley and Young had powered the Red Sox to a 3-0 lead in the top of the inning.
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Shaw, inserted into the lineup for a slumping Yoan Moncada, hit his 16th homer in the second inning, a two-run shot, and added an RBI single in the fourth.
“He has to be more efficient”, said Padres manager Andy Green. It grabbed me pretty good. Thanks to Thursday’s off day before the Friday night’s opener of the Blue Jays series in Toronto, the Red Sox are altering their rotation. The Red Sox are 13-6 in interleague play this season with one game remaining.2. He has given up five homers in 35 2/3 innings and has allowed fewer than three earned runs in only three of his first seven starts with the Padres while pitching into the sixth inning only once.
The Padres threatened in the seventh, when Oswaldo Arcia and Luis Sardinas singled.
On the mound for San Diego and looking to rebound from a rough start his last time out will be Paul Clemens.
The Red Sox went back to work against Clemens in the fifth, opening the inning with three straight singles by Xander Bogaerts, Mookie Betts and Hanley Ramirez.
“I felt like I hyperextended on my way up as I was trying to find the bag, then landed awkwardly on the way down”. Young immediately followed with a line-drive that barely cleared the left field wall. Shaw replaced Moncada, a prized Cuban prospect, at third base after Moncada struck out seven straight times. Clemens has been struggling for the Padres, failing to clear six innings in any of his starts. Cosart faced Boston in his rookie season with Houston and yielded two runs with five walks over five innings in a no-decision August 7, 2013.WALK-OFFS1. He hasn’t had much luck as a starter for the Padres; since joining the team, he’s 1-4 with a 4.54 ERA.
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The game was scoreless when Boston’s Sandy Leon opened the fourth by beating the Padres’ shift with a flawless bunt to third bringing Padres pitching coach Darren Balsley to the mound to talk to Clemens. Farrell said there’s no timetable for Wright’s return. Young extended Boston’s lead to 3-0 when he went back-to-back with Bradley, hitting his eighth homer and second in two games. San Diego activated OF Jon Jay (forearm) from the disabled list.3. Pedroia capped a three-run Boston third with a two-run double off reliever Carlos Villanueva after Cosart was forced to leave the game with the double whammy strains to his right hamstring and groin. Price, who has won four of his last five road starts, struck out eight.
