Leadership often demands actions more often than words, as Dustin Pedroia demonstrated Sunday.
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Dustin Pedroia hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off Huston Street with two outs in the ninth inning and Xander Bogaerts followed with another home run to lead the Red Sox over the Los Angeles Angels 5-3 Sunday. I didn’t think I’d be in the rotation. “Then he went through some stretches when his fastball was in synch and he threw some much better pitches”. Wright is 2-1 with a 6.61 ERA and eight strikeouts in his career against the Angels.
Buchholz earned the win with three hitless innings of relief. However, in between those walks, he made just enough big pitches to grind his way through without giving up a big inning. Brad Ziegler received his second save.
Said Santiago, tongue a bit in cheek: “Phenomenal start”. After walking Hanley Ramirez for his third walk of the inning, and fifth of the game, pitching coach Charles Nagy visited the mound, Lincecum settled down, and Bradley to flied out to Mike Trout to end the inning.
The left-hander threw 38 pitches in the first inning, divided evenly between balls and strikes. In his start against the Royals, Skaggs conceded just three hits and one walk in seven shutout innings while collecting five strikeouts in the Angels’ 13-0 romp.
“I’ve come a long way in those two years”, Skaggs said. “He’s working hard to get there. He used all of his pitches and he had good life on his fastball”. Supporters chanted “Papi, Papi” during his at-bat in the eighth inning, and gave him another standing ovation after he struck out, when Los Angeles held a 3-0 lead.
Better, but not enough to improve the most damning statistic concerning the Red Sox, an 8-33 record when they score fewer than five runs in a game. Home plate umpire, Gabe Morales, didn’t initially motion whether Escobar was safe or out because Morales deemed that Escobar missed home plate. After a pair of strikeouts, Mookie Betts singled in a run and Pedroia homered to center on a 1-0 slider as Mike Trout climbed the center-field fence in vain.
Farrell said he was in the clubhouse when Pedroia connected against Street, and “by the time it landed, I was in the runway”.
“Right now I’m trying to search for something consistent and it’s just not there”, Lincecum said. Hopefully, it would come back closer to me. “I got a pitch to hit and I hit it good”.
Jefry Marte had a run-scoring grounder in the bottom of the first to get Los Angeles on the scoreboard. They’ve won four of his last five starts, are 4-1 in his last five starts when their opponent scores five runs or more in its previous game, and are 5-1 in his lat six outings following a team loss in their previous game. Bogaerts singled before Bradley and Shaw walked.
Los Angeles had a chance to move ahead in the first inning but two unusual plays thwarted the club. Escobar charged home on the single by Trout.
“I’m only 5-foot-7. I’m going to need a trampoline to hit that damn ball”. “When Hanigan dropped the ball, he was too far in and never got to the plate”.
Pujols then dumped a single into short right field to load the bases. Simmons followed by striking out on a pitch that eluded Hanigan. The catcher then threw to the plate, where Wright tagged out Kole Calhoun.
“Overall he just wasn’t as strong as the last time out”, Farrell said. Red Sox RHP Craig Kimbrel allowed one hit in one-third of an inning during his rehabilitation assignment Saturday night for Triple-A Pawtucket. Kimbrel will rejoin the team during its series in Seattle later this week….
The Angels’ designated hitter also tied Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig for ninth place in career extra-base hits with 1,190.
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Pujols lined his two-run homer off Pomeranz in the third to give the Angels the lead. The others are Tony Conigliaro, Alex Rodriguez and Hall of Famers Mickey Mantle and Ken Griffey Jr.
