Ortiz drew a walk to load the bases for Betts. They’ve got Betts on their side. As long as he continues to limit the damage and keep the Red Sox in games, he deserves to be in the discussion for Cy Young.
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Rodriguez matched Gallardo as he was sharp throughout his start.
Davis scored another run for Cleveland on a double in the eighth inning before the first two Indians reached base in the ninth – Francisco Lindor on a leadoff double and Mike Napoli on a walk – off closer Craig Kimbrel. He went 7 2/3 innings and retired the final five batters before Francona called on left-hander Kyle Crockett to face Ortiz in the eighth. School, Manny Machado, and Mark Trumbo all struck out swinging as E-Rod no hit the Orioles through four. Yes, that Eduardo Rodriguez, the one that the Orioles traded at the 2014 trade deadline to pickup Andrew Miller for the 2014 playoff run. At the same time, Ortiz is a future Hall of Famer and Bradley deserves credit for extending the at-bat and for good barrel awareness.
MARINERS 3, ANGELS 2: Nelson Cruz hit his 30th home run to lead Felix Hernandez and Seattle past Los Angeles as the Angels matched a franchise record with their 11th consecutive defeat.
Miami’s former reliever David Phelps pitched into the sixth inning in only his third start of the season to steer the Marlins to a 6-3 win at Cincinnati.
But with no outs in the fifth inning, Rodriguez threw a pitch, turned his back to the plate and grimaced. After throwing ball two to Steve Pearce, Bogaerts called for the trainer to come check on E-Rod. Red Sox manager John Farrell never considered resting his 40-year-old slugger.
Trailing 2-1, the Red Sox started the sixth inning with a single to left field by Dustin Pedroia. There was the 1-0 game against the Atlanta Braves on April 25, and Boston took three squeakers against the Seattle Mariners (2-1 on June 19, 2-1 on August 1 and 3-2 on August 4). Bartolo Colon (10-7) gave up nine hits and five runs in four innings and took the loss.
“You’ve got to beat Tomlin because he’s not going to beat himself”.
The Orioles appeared to be on the brink of another exciting late-inning comeback on Tuesday night, but there’s this guy named Mookie Betts who simply can not be contained at Camden Yards.
Fernando Abad relieved Barnes, and he walked Chris Davis to load the bases. Wieters was not waiting around as he connected on the first pitch for a single to left field to cut the Red Sox lead to one, 3-2.
Gallardo’s night would be finished there, a prototypical five and dive performance. Just because a pitcher allows two homers and “loses” does not mean he should hang his head.
Baltimore ended up batting around and tying the game at 3.
Brad Ziegler (1-3) was the victor. That brought up Ortiz who magically struck out.
Hampered by a right-shoulder impingement most of the season, Ferrell, 25, allowed six earned runs on 16 hits in 7 1/3 innings with Triple-A Toledo. Then, in came that man again, Mookie Betts ripped an inside pitch for a short home run to left field. If the Red Sox can’t win close games, they’re toast. Red Sox catcher Bryan Holaday was 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, but his contributions as a game-caller were notable. After a long at bat, Ross struckout Davis on a attractive curveball to go to the ninth with the 5-3 lead. Be it Pomeranz through almost eight innings or Craig Kimbrel in the ninth, the Red Sox kept a good offensive club at bay.
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Gallardo has been up-and-down since returning to the rotation, but still owns a 2-0 record and 3.33 at Camden Yards this season.
