Boston catcher Sandy Leon drove in four runs, two on a fourth-inning homer off Dodgers starter Scott Kazmir, and the Red Sox blew the game open with a five-run, five-hit, one-error eighth inning off relievers Jesse Chavez and J.P. Howell.
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Hill, who is on the 15-day disabled list because of the first blister, has yet to make his initial start with the Dodgers since being obtained in a trade with the Oakland A’s on August 1.
Newly promoted Ross Stripling and the Dodgers bullpen combined on a five-hitter, leading Los Angeles over the Boston Red Sox 3-0 Saturday. They started the night hoping to complete a 6-5 trip with Price on the mound.
“He’s handled the environment probably about as good as you could”, Red Sox manager John Farrell said. “This trip has seen games where we’ve scuffled to not only get a runner in scoring position or a base hit in that situation but to string any kind of base hits together, and that was the storyline today”. Rick Porcello is scheduled to start the first game, following by Drew Pomeranz, and then back to Wright for the finale. Ortiz is a ten-times All-Star, a three-time World Series champion, and holder of the Red Sox single-season record for home runs with 54 set during the 2006 season. Im sure its going to be something different, but its still another at-bat..
Former Red Sox Adrian Gonzalez hit his 300th career home run to become the seventh active player to reach 300 homers and 400 doubles. “I’d just got sent down”. The former Cy Young Award victor put up eight scoreless innings at the Los Angeles Angels to begin the road trip on July 28 but did not factor in the decision in a game Boston went on to lose 2-1. Even with the stadium in sight, Reddick said, “It took four entrances and three wrong-way turns to get in here”. But in the Sox’s previous 12 games entering Saturday, in which they went 5-7, the offense sputtered to a.238/.304/.396 slash line, numbers helped by a nine-run outburst on Friday. He also scored on a Mookie Betts base hit where the throw was pretty much headed home from shallow left when he touched third because he’s one heck of a baserunner.
“I was ready to go past year”, he said.
Rookie Rob Segedin was the headliner in Los Angeles’ 8-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.
“He’s going to go as long as I think he can go”, Roberts said.
Stripling (3-3) pitched five innings after being called up from the minors when pitcher Bud Norris was put on the disabled list (see full recap).
Boston pulled to within a run with a three-run rally of their own in the sixth inning, but back-to-back home runs in the seventh by Adrian Gonzalez and Kiké Hernandez gave the Dodgers some extra breathing room. He started opposite Dodgers righty Brandon McCarthy who couldn’t find the strike zone at all, walking five, hitting one batter and throwing a wild pitch in 3 2/3 innings. It was Seager’s 31st double of the season, setting an L.A. Dodgers record for rookies. He had been tied with Eric Karros (1992) at 30. Holaday was a teammate of starter David Price in Detroit in 2014-15.
Holaday was claimed off waivers from Texas on Friday.
In other news, Yasiel Puig is in the lineup for the OKC Dodgers, hopefully putting an end to the “he’s not reporting because he’s mad” narrative. When OF Chris Young’s rehab assignment will begin depends upon a baserunning workout Sunday.
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Dodgers: LHP Rich Hill, scratched Saturday because of a blister, has been penciled in to start on Friday against the Pirates. Since this game was in a National League park, Rodriguez didn’t have to face the designated hitter.
