Lucchino will be leaving his position by the end of 2015, according to Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe, and is expected to leave his position by the end of October.
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But in the bottom of the fourth with two outs, Cabrera and Loney hit a single and double respectively to drive in the second run of the game off Miley, as it was then 3-2 Sox. He might still be undefeated against them if he had received any run support in a 4-1 loss June 27 when he yielded two runs in 6 1-3 innings. His primary duties with the Red Sox are business operations, broadcasting, marketing and tickets. Rookie Travis Shaw, recently recalled with third baseman Pablo Sandoval (forearm) injured, went 4-for-4 with a pair of homers in Boston’s 11-7 victory Saturday. He soon came around to score on Cabrera’s one-out RBI double to deep right.
“No, I wouldn’t say that”, Farrell said of Luchhino’s possible diminished role this year.
“I tried to stick to my approach and not do too much”, said Shaw, who finished with a career-high four hits and was a triple short of the cycle.
The 69-year-old Lucchino joined the Red Sox in 2002. The Louisiana native permitted one run and five hits over 13 innings combined despite not being involved in either decision in his previous two outings.
– Swihart delivered a two-run single into left field in the first inning. Farrell said after the game that LHP Henry Owens would make his major league debut in Tuesday’s series opener against Masahiro Tanaka (7-4) at Yankee Stadium. “I dont know anything other than that hes getting an X-ray”, manager Kevin Cash said. “Once you get a couple of hits, your confidence level goes up and you feel good about yourself and I was able to carry through the whole game”. We’ve had pitchers in similar situations succeed before-John Lackey coming back from Tommy John Surgery in 2013 comes to mind, if the circumstances were different-and the Red Sox can’t really afford to just give up on Porcello having already committed to him for the next four years.
Rays: RHP Nathan Karns (6-5) was flip-flopped with Odorizzi and is scheduled to open the three-game series against LHP Jose Quintana (6-9) when they play at the Chicago White Sox on Monday. In his last three starts for the Red Sox, he is 7-for-10 at the plate.
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The Sox wasted a strong start by Wade Miley whose day didn’t get off to a promising start when he surrendered a homer run to Tampa’s Brandon Guyer, the first batter he faced.
