On Friday night, Andrew Miller showed him to his seat, right before plate umpire Ron Kulpa tossed him out completely in the Yankees’ drama-filled 3-2 victory.
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The crescendo of a dramatic ninth inning in the Yankees’ 3-2 win Friday night at Yankee Stadium was Miller’s strikeout of Ortiz with the bases loaded and one out.
The two teams battled eachother to a 2-2 standstill for six innings before Rick Porcello gave up a solo shot to start the seventh.
Adam Eaton singled, advanced on a wild pitch, stole third base and scored when Jose Abreu hit into a double play in the first inning against Red Sox left-hander Henry Owens. “The 3-1 pitch, I had it coming through the zone”.
Kulpa said he ejected Farrell for arguing balls and strikes (which is an automatic ejection for managers).
Ortiz threw his arms in the air, and Red Sox manager John Farrell rushed out of the dugout to get ejected in the middle of the at-bat.
Farrell motioned for Kulpa to be ejected after Kulpa ejected him.
The Sox got on the board in the 1st with a two run homer from David Ortiz.
The Red Sox jumped out to a 4-1 lead, thanks to a pair of home runs off White Sox starter Erik Johnson, who was recalled from Triple-A Charlotte earlier on Thursday.
Because the alternative is that these Red Sox, enjoying their taste of first place after spending three of the last four years in the depths of the division, could catch the irrelevancy that now envelops the New York Yankees. There are Twitter accounts that not only track close ball-strike calls, but tell you, immediately, how often a pitch in a certain location is called the same way. “He’d need a hockey stick for the 3-2 pitch”. 357 with four home runs and nine RBIs, and he’s doing it without just swinging for the fences each time.
“It’s just another game, another big game between the Yankees and Red Sox”. “But in addition to a borderline pitch, probably a tick below the zone, that’s pushed down below the zone, that’s a tough one to take”.
The Boston Red Sox have had a sensational offense so far this season, but the only place of concern with it was that they were not hitting enough home runs.
Marwin Gonzalez had a two-run homer and also doubled to help the Astros win for the third time in four games.
Ortiz insisted Kulpa blew the calls.
“That was a momentum shift for us”, Boston manager John Farrell said. However, mistakes are bound to be made since these are humans that we’re talking about, and sometimes that can end up being the difference between a win and a loss for teams on certain nights. I thought about it a lot and like I have said, it was a chapter in my life and now I go on to something else. “We had them on the ropes there a couple of times with bases loaded and didn’t get anything out of it, so we’ll get better than that”.
Travis Shaw launched a fifth-inning two-run homer off Eovaldi, and the Red Sox finished off their sweep with their second straight eight-run, 14-hit game in this series.
BrooksBaseball.net had the 3-1 pitch as a strike, so Ortiz’s initial outburst may have been over the top; but the deciding strike, No. 6 in the at-bat, was low.
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Having said that, Ortiz should have known that many would question his decision especially if he had gotten off to a hot start in 2016, which he has.
