With Thursday being an off day, Boston manager John Farrell has tweaked his rotation for the upcoming showdowns. And Shaw immediately showed his worth to the Red Sox by absolutely crushing a two-run homer off Padres starter Jarred Cosart in the second inning. After Price struck out and Young and Shaw advanced on a double steal, Pedroia hit a two-run double to make it 5-2.
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– Price loves to hit, but he struck out in all three of his at-bats. Boston is headed to Toronto for a three-game series beginning on Friday.
Red Sox: RHP Koji Uehara (strained pectoral muscle) was activated off the disabled list.
Buchholz entered Tuesday’s game with a 5.20 earned run average. Young, who homered as a pinch-hitter Monday for the Red Sox’s only run in a 2-1 loss to the Padres, followed with a 344-foot drive to left on a 1-and-0 fastball. Pedroia capped a three-run Boston third with a two-run double off reliever Carlos Villanueva after Cosart was forced to leave the game with the double whammy strains to his right hamstring and groin. With her straight sets win over Yaroslava Shev-dova yesterday, she won grand slam match number 308 for her career, and that is a record for man or woman, as she moves one ahead od Roger Federer for the all-time record.
Price threw 98 pitches in seven innings.
But on Moncada’s first night in uniform, Shaw made a statement with a five-RBI night in Oakland, his fourth five-RBI game of the season. Prior to exiting, he had pitching 3.1 innings and allowed a two-run home run to Travis Shaw. The Blue Jays lost 7-6 to the Yankees on Tuesday. Kimbrel hit Schimpf before Jankowski lined out to Young to end the game. He hit a sharp grounder inside the third-base bag that rolled all the way into the left field corner. The Red Sox are 13-6 in interleague play this season with one game remaining.2. The starters have pitched to a 3.31 ERA in the last 54 games.
Ramirez’s homer came in the eighth off Jake Smith’s first major league pitch.
In womens’ college soccer yesterday the Norwich Cadets defeated Johnson 2-0 on goals by Mehgan McMullen and Ashley Carvalho for the team’s first win of the season. Price has a five-start winning streak and has allowed but eight runs in 35 innings over that span.
Since being acquired by the Padres at the trade deadline, Cosart has gone six innings or more just once in his seven starts with the team. He is 5-0 with a 1.30 ERA over his last seven starts.
Neither team scored in the first three innings or in the last four.
He is 1-for-12 with a walk and five strikeouts in his career at Petco Park, with 12 of those plate appearances coming while starting three games at first base here in 2007.
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The Vermont Lake Monsters played their season finale in style, finishing their season with a 9-5 comeback win over the Lowell Spinners.
