The Boston Red Sox have gotten started clearing their offensive logjam in the last few weeks, moving Shane Victorino and Mike Napoli to the Angels and Rangers, respectively. Miguel Cabrera (.350, 43 Rs, 15 HRs, 54 RBIs, 1 SB) continued his strong play yesterday, going 2 for 2 with one RBI.
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Ian Krol: In the top of the eighth inning, the Tigers were only down one run. Detroit regained that run in the bottom of the stanza, however, as Marte hit a leadoff bomb of his own, a 429-foot shot to center off of Boston reliever Justin Masterson.
Bradley Jr. then leveled the game’s definitive blast, a critical bases-clearing triple to right field, increasing the Red Sox advantage to an insurmountable 6-2.
The Tigers right-hander has posted a 10.91 ERA in a three-start home slide that is one shy of his worst-ever such stretch set past year.
“I’ve seen it dozens of times during my playing career”.
The Tigers, meanwhile, have gone through a tumultuous couple of weeks. Luckily, the team still has David Price (for now) who has been just as dominant, but if they don’t start making improvements they could be sellers at the trade deadline next week. On Friday, McCann and shortstop Jose Iglesias got into an altercation in the dugout. The Boston Red Sox have lost six of their last eight road games. He hit a solo home run off Tom Gorzelanny, who was called up from Triple-A Toledo earlier today, in the seventh inning and drew a bases-loaded walk against Verlander in the second inning. Outfielder J.D. Martinez is 4 for 8 in this series with a homer and three RBIs. He was relieved after Kinsler led off the sixth with a ground-rule double to left. Everytime the Red Sox try to be some sort of All-Star team, it ends very badly.
“I think probably these first two starts, looking back, I can trust myself in the zone more rather than tinkering around”, Owens said. That’s how confident I am in him.
Napoli did walk in the fourth inning, and ended up scoring a run, according to NESN. He always said he loves to hit at Comerica Park in Detroit, and he showed why this past weekend clocking two big home runs.
Sandoval has been able to play through pain after being hit on the thumb by a pitch he swung at from White Sox ace Chris Sale on July 30. After a walk issued to first baseman Travis Shaw was sandwiched in between two outs, an error by Kinsler allowed catcher Blake Swihart to reach, moving left fielder Alejandro De Aza (reached on a fielder’s choice) to second. Owens walked four and allowed three hits while only striking out two, so he was fortunate to allow just the one run.
“The first two times through the order I had been throwing a lot of hard stuff, and they were starting to foul off my fastball”, Miley said. “In retrospect, I wish I hadn’t done that”.
David Ortiz is a franchise icon for the Boston Red Sox, and he will be firmly in the middle of the lineup in 2016 after his 425th plate appearance of the 2015 season came Saturday.
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Boston Red Sox closer Koji Uehara will miss the rest of the season with a broken right wrist. Simon, who has dealt with a groin issue lately, threw 98 pitches.
