Ortiz was interviewed in the clubhouse after the game, as seen on NESN’s “Red Sox Final”, and showered the rookie with some more praise.
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After Tuesday night, they may give him a raise.
Benintendi drove in a run with a fourth-inning sacrifice fly, then kept Price’s bid for a shutout alive by denying Steven Souza Jr. what would have been a two-run homer with an eighth-inning catch that almost sent him tumbling over a short wall in the left-field corner. Fulmer retired the first two hitters, but base hits by Sandy Leon and Brock Holt put runners on first and second.
“We fell behind early”, Rays manager Kevin Cash said.
“When you strike out five straight times, you have time to think about how the pitchers are attacking you”, Benintendi said. I thought the bullpen came in and did a really nice job behind him. “Offensively, a pretty quiet night there until the end”. If anything they will look to capitalize on this lose and bring the heat tomorrow when the Sox play the Rays in Tampa with former Rays pitcher David Price on the mound. “We probably got some pitches to hit that we just missed”. Evan Longoria stopped the streak with a two-run homer off Matt Barnes in the ninth.
RAYS 8, RANGERS 4 Logan Forsythe (Razorbacks) homered after missing four games because of back spasms, and host Tampa Bay beat Texas to take two of three from the AL West-leading Rangers. This young man is looking to make a name for himself as a member of the Boston Red Sox and he’s doing a pretty good job thus far on that journey. “It’s just stuff. So it was good”.
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The Boston Red Sox finish the season with 22 of their remaining 38 games on the road, but nights like Monday’s 6-2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays – giving the Red Sox the second-best road record in the American League at 32-27 – provides them with confidence down the stretch.
