I just didnt want to go three days without playing, but Im okay, Ortiz said. The four RBIs are the most by a Dodgers player in his debut.
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The week turned sour quickly on Saturday, when the Red Sox were shut out 3-0 in game two. He allowed six runs (3 earned) in five innings, walking five and striking out three.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was tight-lipped when asked if Urias would be on a pitch count. “Three innings is better than none, and he didn’t have his best stuff but he found a way to wiggle out of some jams and give us a chance to win”.
On Saturday, Ross Stripling worked five shutout innings and the Dodgers’ bullpen did the rest in a 3-0 victory over the Red Sox.
“I can’t feel what’s happening and I don’t know what the hell this is”, he said. It’s a disappearing mess.
LOS ANGELES David Ortiz made two nice catches in a rare start at first base. Segedin pumped his fist and pounded his chest as he stood atop second base for the fist time in his career. “I’m just thankful that the Dodgers, whatever they saw in me, that they did the trade in January and I could get this opportunity”.
The win, coupled with the Giants’ loss in Washington D.C. earlier Sunday, moved the Dodgers to within one game of San Francisco in the National League West.
The fifth inning featured two more walks, another error, this one a bad toss by shortstop Xander Bogaerts, and another two-run hit, this one a single from notorious Red Sox killer Rob Segedin.
“That’s the biggest thing with knuckleballs”, he said. “One of them was with one out, and the other was with two-outs”. Actually, a lot of things happened. Slug when the pitching’s good, pitch well when the hitting’s rolling.
As he has a number of times this season, Price said he simply didn’t have it on the mound. “Made some really good pitches and then didn’t make some good ones. It’s all part of it”.
His wife Robin, who will be induced August 19, so her husband can attend the birth of their son, Robinson, was shown cheering on his run-scoring hits along with her mother, Suzanne Friedman, a longtime resident of Plantation.
“We couldn’t get anything going offensively”, Red Sox manager John Farrell said. “That has reared it’s ugly head on this trip particularly”.
Boston catcher Sandy Leon drove in four runs, two on a fourth-inning homer off Dodgers starter Scott Kazmir, and the Red Sox blew the game open with a five-run, five-hit, one-error eighth inning off relievers Jesse Chavez and J.P. Howell.
The 42-year-old Japanese star will become the 30th player in major league history to reach 3,000 with his next hit.
“I was just trying to go out there and establish your knuckleball for called strikes”, Wright said. He hit.315 in July after he hit.223 in June, but he has only 10 home runs, after seasons of 22, 27 and 28.
Justin Turner homered and Adrian Gonzalez and Enrique Hernandez hit back-to-back long balls in the seventh for the Dodgers (62-49), who took two of three from the Red Sox (60-50).
“I got a fastball out over and I was able to stay behind it”, Gonzalez said of number 300. “But it’s pretty cool to take a step back and enjoy it for a few hours”.
In the fourth, an RBI single by Benintendi made it 2-0. The Boston Herald indicates that he was removed from Saturday’s game in the sixth inning due to general stiffness.
Right-hander Josh Fields induced the second double-play groundout. On Sunday, in his final at-bat, the first baseman obliged with a walloping moon shot to right-center for the 300 home run of his historic career.
Kansas City’s Yordano Ventura pitched effectively into the seventh inning as the Royals beat Toronto 7-1.
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Kazmir (9-5) was roughed up for four runs and five hits by a Boston lineup that was missing slugger David Ortiz.
