David Price won his eighth straight decision, Hanley Ramirez homered and the Red Sox completed a four-game sweep of the sinking Orioles with a 5-3 victory Thursday night.
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Baltimore manager Buck Showalter wants his team to forget the four-game sweep and focus now on its final home series of the season, against the Arizona Diamondbacks, which starts Friday.
Before the game, the Orioles posted an explanation on Twitter, saying they wanted a tribute both Orioles and Red Sox fans could enjoy.
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In the second inning, Jackie Bradley Jr. led off with a triple to the right field corner. Instead, he fired it past the pitcher. Erick Aybar drove in two runs for Tigers, who moved a half-game ahead of Baltimore for the second wild card and trail Toronto by one game.
The Red Sox’ first-round pick a year ago out of Arkansas, Benintendi is hitting.317 with an.884 OPS through his first 89 major league plate appearances.
Ortiz, by the way, is a career.261/.365/.514 hitter with 30 home runs in 121 games at Camden Yards. Huh. Baltimore has just five runs in the first three games. It came off Vance Worley (2-2), who was on in long relief because starter Chris Tillman gave up three runs and lasted only 1 2/3 innings.
Price worked around baserunners in all but two of his innings and exited after seven, allowing six hits and two walks while striking out five.
Jose Reyes hit a tying two-run homer in the ninth inning and Asbrubal Cabrera hit a three-run drive in an 11th-inning comeback to lift the New York Mets to a dramatic 9-8 win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
“Chili Davis is actually the one who said something to me about it”, said Buchholz. Clay Buchholz retired the first six batters before Baltimore loaded the bases with no outs.
During a pregame ceremony, Ortiz, who now ranks 17th all-time with 537 career home runs, was gifted a $10,000 check towards a charity he supports and a smashed-in dugout phone in a case-a trophy that pays homage to 2013 when he infamously smashed the Orioles’ visitor’s dugout phone with a baseball bat following a strikeout. Sandy Leon then hit a sharp grounder toward first base at Davis, who rushed an off-balance throw that whisked past Brach, allowing two runs to score.
Well, the Orioles’ hopes of a place in the postseason just took a heavy blow, and their worthiness to play October baseball has been called into question after suffering through four days of misery en route to being dealt a four-game sweep by the hand of the red-hot Bo’Sox. The three-run homer in the third inning came off David Price.
“When you are down, they are going to step on you, and when you’re up, you are going to ride the flow as much as you can”, Showalter said. “That was a highlight of last night.”.
With just ten games left in the regular season the National League wild card chase is setting up to be a dandy.
Famously, Ortiz destroyed a telephone in the visiting dugout at Oriole Park at Camden Yards with a bat after being struck out by reliever Jairo Asencio in a 2013 encounter, which the Red Sox won, 7-3.
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