Needless to say, he is happy to be back as a starter. First, we start withthe pitcher with the most wins in the majors.
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Chicago White Sox manager Robin Ventura, left, shakes hands with starting pitcher Chris Sale after completing the seventh inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park, Tuesday, June 21, 2016, in Boston.
But the Boston Red Sox dugout and the fans may have been holding their breath as they watched Chicago’s ace Chris Sale emerge from the dugout to face the home team in the bottom of the first inning.
Quintana had to fight everything over his 5⅓ innings, as he allowed six runs on eight hits and six walks.
Sale had been struggling since late-May.
The Red Sox entered their four game series against the White Sox on Monday with the best offense in Major League Baseball. Erod was able to get the last two outs by way of the groundout and would get out of the inning without any further damage.
One of the players responsible for this recent dry run is first baseman Hanley Ramirez.
The Red Sox had three of their hits and scored their only run in the third off Sale. “I had good command and just confidence, too”, Sale said.
It rained runs in Minnesota, where the Twins trumped the Philadelphia Phillies 14-10, the San Diego Padres also notched double digits in their 10-7 win over the Baltimore Orioles and the San Francisco Giants demolished the Pittsburgh Pirates 15-4.
“He kept everybody off balance, mixed up pitches throughout counts and did what he does a lot of times”, said Mookie Betts, who drove in Boston’s only run. A fan in the first row above the Monster touched Bogaerts’ blast, and a review in NY could not determine that it was touched in home-run territory, so it stood as a ground-rule double.
ROCKIES 8, YANKEES 4: Charlie Blackmon led off the game with a home run and later connected for another solo drive, Nolan Arenado hit his major league-leading 21st homer and the Rockies again roughed up the Yankees – this time at NY.
Since that streak ended, the White Sox are 11-26 and have fallen well out of first place in the American League Central despite their scorching start to the year.
– Heath Hembree retired two of the three batters he faced and allowed a leadoff single in the ninth.
Uehara’s ERA is now 4.78.
Buchholz should take comfort in a telling stat: Chicago has scored a total of nine runs in the last four contests.
Chicago starter Jason Hammel (7-3) suffered his second loss of June after giving up four runs on six hits, walking one and striking out three. Suzuki finished with three extra base hits. J.B. Shuck made a sprinting grab of Xander Bogaerts’ fly ball to the center-field corner, near the sign marking 420 feet, for the first out of the sixth. Arizona beat Toronto 4-2 but it might have been worse without Pillar making this play. The Red Sox got two men on in the 8th inning, but then the White Sox brought in their closer Robertson and that rally was squashed. They have won nine of their past 10 games.
The Cardinals won their second straight game.
NEW YORK – Five New York pitchers combined for 8 2/3 innings of one-run relief after right-hander Bartolo Colon departed with a thumb injury, and Asdrubal Cabrera and Yoenis Cespedes each hit solo homers as the Mets edged Kansas City in a rematch of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field.
Corbin (4-6) allowed eight hits, three walks and two runs in 6 1/3 innings.
TIGERS 4, MARINERS 2: Mike Aviles drove in the tiebreaking run for the Tigers with a bases-loaded infield single in the eighth inning at Detroit.
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Dodgers 3, Nationals 2: Yasmani Grandal hit a towering three-run homer in the eighth inning as Los Angeles came from behind to defeat Washington. Tampa Bay, last in the AL East, has lost six in a row.
