White Sox 2, Red Sox 1. They have 28 runs on 46 hits – 25 for extra bases – in the first three games of the four-game series at Fenway Park.
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The 54 runs scored accounts for 14.8 percent of the team’s 364 season total in just seven percent of their games.
Another positive in Wright’s performance was his cohesion with catcher Blake Swihart after the backstop’s four passed-ball game the last time they got together. Quintana is 1-0 with a 1.27 ERA in three career starts against Boston.
White Sox: Sale stayed in the game after Bogaerts lined a 95 miles per hour fastball off his leg for a single in the first inning, but said he felt fine. He allowed seven runs and 12 hits in his worst start since April.
The Red Sox will counter with knuckleballer Steven Wright who will be out to stop the bleeding from a pitching staff that’s allowing 4.79 runs per game.
[SHOP: Gear up, White Sox fans!].
Chicago will try to take its next small step by climbing back to. He walked two and struck out eight, throwing 116 pitches on a day the Red Sox needed to give their bullpen a rest.
Why the Tigers would move him: At this point, considering the way hed pitched for his six starts previous to his last (a 5-1 win over Boston Saturday), youd be hard pressed to say that Simon was doing much more than sucking up innings for the Tigers. After Jose Abreu walked, LaRoche was hit by a pitch putting the visiting Sox on top 5-0.
After scoring two runs in the fifth to take a 3-2 lead, the Boston bats jumped on Sale for a four-spot in the sixth in which the first five batters reached base. Chicago (49-50) climbed within a game of the.
Jose Abreu hit a two-run homer in the first, giving the Chicago first baseman 17 homers for the season. Alexei Ramirez hit a solo homer for the White Sox, who built a 6-0 lead and chased Boston starter Rick Porcello in the third inning.
Xander Bogaerts also had three hits in Boston’s third win in 15 games, and Rusney Castillo homered in the seventh.
Add to this that both the first and second place AL Central teams also suffered embarrassing losses today.
“In a lot of ways it seems like the team was left for dead a week ago and now it has some life and is playing good baseball”, manager Robin Ventura said, “so you don’t know what’s going to happen”.
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The Jays are no sure thing – but man, you have to respect and perhaps even envy that they are going for it, having made blockbuster deals for Tigers lefty David Price and longtime Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki in the past couple of days. This will be Wright’s first career appearance against Chicago.
