The Orioles have been one of the best home teams in all of baseball, but that hasn’t meant much to the Red Sox.
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Therefore it’s no coincidence that Boston has matched its season-high win streak, which reached six games Wednesday night after a rain-shortened 8-1 victory in Baltimore over the Orioles. The Orioles started the day atop the division by.001 over Toronto, which played a late game against the Yankees. Before this defeat, Baltimore was in first or second place since opening day.
“I’m sure there are some numbers to dictate that it’s more us”, manager Buck Showalter said, “but he’s been having that type of year against most everybody”. “There’s a lot of baseball to be played”. He either leads the league or ranks among the top 10 in multihit games (51), total bases (285), extra-base hits (67), batting average (.315), homers, RBIs (89), runs (93), hits (157), doubles (34), triples (5), steals (18), slugging (.571) and OPS (.926). “It would be nice to say, ‘Yeah absolutely.’ But there is nothing that’s guaranteed in this game, so I’m going to continue to grind it out and do whatever I can”, Davis said.
“One of the things I would like to do is be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics”, Schilling said. “Just got to learn from it and get better from here”. But it was Mother Nature that provided the lightning and heavy rain that cut Wednesday night’s game short and sent them on their way after a two-game sweep of the Orioles at Camden Yards. If he’s able to keep doing that, he’s going to have a pretty good career. “There is still plenty of time left to regroup and get back on track”.
“He feels comfortable in this ballpark and obviously sees the ball well”, Farrell said.
To make matters worse, the Red Sox and Orioles faced a 1 hour, 17 minute rain delay Wednesday. And over the past four games, Porcello, Drew Pomeranz, Eduardo Rodriguez and Price combined to allow only four runs on 12 hits in 24⅔ innings, taking the pressure off the offense to constantly have to slug opponents into submission. “That takes us to another level”.
Boston outscored the Orioles 13-4 in the two games.
“We didn’t pitch particularly well in certain spots”, Showalter conceded.
Orioles nemesis Mookie Betts went 2 for 3 with a walk and scored three runs. He’s had three multi-homer games as a visitor, more than anyone in a Baltimore uniform this season.
Against the Tigers, Buchholz is 2-1 with a 3.54 ERA and a 1.200 WHIP in 10 games (eight starts). This time, though, it came noticeably after Bundy had taken a tumble off the mound trying to field a weak ground ball from David Ortiz, bringing out the trainers. After Bundy hit Jackie Bradley Jr., Brock Holt lanced a two-out single into right field, giving Travis Shaw a chance to put the Sox ahead.
LeMahieu singled in the first inning, hit a two-run home run in the third and tripled and scored the go-ahead run in the fifth off Yusmeiro Petit (3-3).
Fernando Salas pitched a scoreless ninth for his third save, and Brett Oberholtzer (3-2) earned the win with a scoreless eighth.
Rodriguez had not allowed a hit through the first four innings, but injured himself on the second pitch he threw in the bottom of the fifth, with the Red Sox leading 3-0.
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Farrell said they think they caught Rodriguez’s problems early, and if everything works out all right, the left-hander might not have to miss a start. RHP Steven Wright (right shoulder strain) will have a bullpen session Saturday before coming off the DL on Tuesday.
