Kimbrel will undergo knee surgery to fix cartilage and could miss between three and six weeks, Drellich adds.
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The freefall of the Tampa Bay Rays continued Saturday afternoon with a 4-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox.
“(It’s) something he’s been battling for some time”, Red Sox manager John Farrell said.
“With no real certainty of whether we’d be able to bring (Ziegler) back on a multi-year deal we just decided that we’d be able to get some pretty good prospects for him”, Stewart said.
Uehara has had a rocky season as Boston’s setup man to date.
Uehara has a 4.96 ERA and three saves and has allowed eight homers in just 322/3 innings.
On the season, Ziegler has notched 18 saves for the Diamondbacks, who are basically out of the division race in the National League West. He has a better ERA than Kimbrel (2.82), and his sidewinding action will be tough for American League players who have not seen him this year. That included a historic 6-for-6, two-homer, five-RBI and five-run game against the Red Sox on July 2.
– Rick Porcello picked up the win with another strong outing at home.
As it turned out, both scenarios were true for the Red Sox.
We briefly discussed how things are going to shape up, Farrell said.
According to FanGraphs’ August Fagerstrom, Ziegler’s changeup “was the hardest pitch in all of baseball to lay off last year” because it spun out of the zone 85 percent of the time.
Porcello said he felt fine after the game.
After looking a total disaster all the way through June, the Red Sox will now enter the All-Star Break with three straight series wins having clinched their set against the Rays with a 4-1 win Saturday afternoon.
Marcell Ozuna of the Miami Marlins and Carlos Gonzalez of the Colorado Rockies will start in the outfield for the National League, while Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Starling Marte and Cincinnati Reds outfielder Jay Bruce will replace Fowler and Cespedes on the National League roster. Making his way onto the field for the national anthem before Friday night’s game, Rodon stumbled on the dugout steps and sprained his left wrist while bracing his fall.
Farrell also said 1B Hanley Ramirez was “sore”. “He’s walking around a little bit more normally”.
The Red Sox have placed closer Craig Kimbrel on the disabled list with a medial meniscus tear in his left knee, the team announced.
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The Red Sox are shoring up their depth in the bullpen with the move, getting a versatile late-inning arm capable of inducing a heavy supply of his outs on the ground.
