Whether or not that is true, Ben Maller thinks it is clear that the Red Sox can not count on David Price.
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When Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly beamed Austin later in the game, Austin threw the bat down and charged the mound. Porcello (3-0) stayed in after a 45-minute rain delay and was working on a no-hitter before Aaron Judge’s leadoff double in the seventh. He has six strikeouts and no walks. Holt just stood there, telling Austin what he thought about it. Austin got a little closer, and suddenly 50 players had swarmed the field. Following the fracas, Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee stated that the Yankees were acting “like a bunch of hookers, swinging their purses”. Ramirez dropped his bat, hopped toward the third base dugout and winced in pain, tended to by Boston medical staff before heading to the home clubhouse. To keep things vaguely parallel, an offending NL team should have to forgo one rostered position player for a game.
Asked about his changeup against the Yankees, Porcello said it “felt real good”. “Honestly, it wasn’t a big deal at all”. “I feel like I can go out there and attack guys and go at them with whatever I got”.
Oh, and they also played and completed the game on Wednesday, a 10-7 win for the Yankees, avenging Tuesday’s 14-1 embarrassment at Fenway. Whatever the reason, if your a Yankee or Red Sox fan you just can’t wait for the next 16 times these two teams will meet this season. Moreland and Andrew Benintendi each had two hits and drove in a run. There’s no worse fanbase than the Yankees’ and if this is how the 2018 season’s gonna go, then count me in for every game. Last year, an extraordinarily dumb saga that started with Manny Machado’s apparently innocent overslide into Dustin Pedroia didn’t end before the Orioles hit Mookie Betts with a pitch even though Betts, at that point, had played no role whatsoever in the spat.
The Boston Red Sox right-hander won the American League Cy Young Award in 2016, lost both his sinker and his mojo a year ago and tried everything this past winter to get it back. “I was frustrated in the first half of the game”. Yankees hitting coach Marcus Thames used both hands to shove Austin all the way across the infield toward the NY dugout. Kimbrel was able to get it done. After the game, manager Alex Cora said that he expects David Price to be fine in the long run.
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The Yankees won the winter when they traded for Stanton, but the Red Sox are looking to win the summer. “Scuffling to find the zone, didn’t execute very well and made it hard all the way around”. Gardner advanced to third and scored on Stanton’s single.
