You don’t want to do that this late.
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The Yankees squandered a scoring chance in the second off Clay Buchholz, who was making just his third start since returning to the Boston rotation.
The Yankees, who have surged into the wild-card chase, were an out away from moving within three games of the Red Sox in the division.
There are only 15 games left. “We had that game”.
Pinch-hitter Daniel Descalso lined a game-winning single off the center-field wall in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Colorado Rockies rallied past San Diego Padres 8-7 on Friday night. “We’ve just got to respond again”. “He’s got some of the best stuff in the game, so it’s big, pretty big”.
The Red Sox moved two games ahead of Baltimore, which lost 7-6 to Tampa Bay. Layne, the former Red Sox lefty, has earned Girardi’s trust.
Well, after a runner reached with one out, Yankees manager Joe Girardi made a decision to not screw around anymore and just bring in Betances.
“We know offensively they’re very explosive, and I said all along you can’t give them extra outs or free baserunners or they’re going to hurt you, ” Girardi said after the Sox won it. It’s got to start tomorrow.
“We just thought we would start mixing and matching at that point, and we thought his fastball was starting to leak a little bit”, Girardi said.
Saturday’s game is against David Price, who’s riding a seven-game winning streak.
“Our games with the Yankees are unbelievable games”, said Ortiz, the only player left on the roster from the team that rallied from a three-game deficit in the 2004 ALCS against NY and went on to win the franchise’s first World Series title in 86 years. Chicago starter James Shields gave up one run and three hits in six innings but remained winless in his last nine starts.
Buchholz allowed seven hits and two walks while striking out a pair and Craig Kimbrel converted a two-out save for his 26th of the year.
Hanley Ramirez “was trying to go to the moon” with walkoff homer: “I was trying to go to the moon”, Ramirez said after the win. We’ve got to keep forward and push it to the limit.
Now here we are, winding down Ramirez’s second season since his return to the Red Sox organization, only to find that the much maligned veteran has suddenly become a vital part of this lineup.
The final out came when Mike Mahtook was cut down at the plate trying to score from first base on a single into the left-field corner by Alexi Ramirez.
Joe Kelly (3-0) got the win with a scoreless inning in relief.
TWINS 5, TIGERS 1: At Detroit, Brian Dozier’s two-run single highlighted a four-run second inning, and Minnesota handed Detroit a crucial loss.
The heart of the Red Sox batting order includes three power hitters how have already knocked in 100 or more RBI (Ramirez.284, 25 HR, 100 RBI, David Ortiz.317, 34 HR, 114 RBI and Mookie Betts.312, 30 HR, 105 HR). NY 3B Chase Headley has three multi-hit performances in his last four meetings with Boston.2. I honestly think that I’ve got to be better being aggressive in the strike zone and not forcing myself to throw a lot of pitches.
The sixth inning began a parade of B-Team relievers.
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Back-to-back singles by Teixeira and Williams opened the fifth, but Gardner whiffed and Ellsbury flied out.
