Rick Porcello picked up his 11 win for Boston. Xander Boegarts hit a two-run homer.
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Regardless if he is out for the three or the six weeks, will he be back 100% as the dominant save specialist he has become or will he not have the power due to the problem being on his right foot. “It’s something that I feel like we can go in, get it scoped out, get it cleaned out”.
Porcello allowed a single run in the top of the 1st when he gave up a solo home run to Miller.
“Definitely from start to finish”, he said. “Good pitches. I was getting weak contact on it. It’s encouraging to see”. Just to confuse the hell out of things, there are two position players called Luis A. Basabe in the Boston organization. “You can get starting pitching…but is it a starting pitcher that helps you?” A groundball pitcher who sports a submarine-style delivery and a heavy sinker, Ziegler is especially hard on right-handed hitters, holding them to a.224 average over his career. It’s the most RBIs ever at the break by a player 40 or older. Evan Longoria leads the team on 98 hits with 47 runs, 19 homers and 47 RBI. Ziegler has great chemistry with the Red Sox other new acquisition, infielder Aaron Hill.
Price had received two runs or fewer in each of his last seven starts.
Bogaerts’ two-run homer came on a fastball that ran in and completely left Fenway over the Green Monster seats to make it 2-1 in the fourth. He threw eight pitches in the ninth inning to secure the 4-0 shutout for the Red Sox. After a dismal.192 average in his professional debut in 2013, Almonte has steadily improved, to the tune of a.310 average this year, along with a career-high 14 stolen bases, bringing his career total to 40 for the young speedster. All told, he had appeared in 348 games since being traded from the Oakland Athletics in a deadline deal during the 2011 season. “But I wouldn’t get into individual cases”, Dombrowski said. “The next time I heard from them I was traded. That’s part of why I was caught off guard and surprised how early it happened”.
As outfield prospect Andrew Benintendi thrives after making the jump from Single-A Salem to Double-A Portland, the possibility that he may be able to help the Sox this season looms over the organization.
Cron, who was blistering the ball since the calendar turned to July, was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday after suffering a fractured left hand in Friday night’s game.
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Hanley Ramirez also limped his way through an eighth inning at-bat after fouling a ball off his left leg. INF/OF Brock Holt (left ankle sprain) and RHP Junichi Tazawa (shoulder tightness) are both day-to-day, but aren’t expected to land on the DL. He has a 3.91 ERA over 10 outings there, and a K:BB ratio of 45:13 in 53 innings of work.
