Miguel Sano followed with a double that scored Mauer to put Minnesota up 2-1. The Red Sox did not record another hit while Gibson was on the mound, as he held the Red Sox hitless from the second to eighth innings. They had combined for 24 runs the past two games, scoring 11 Wednesday night against the San Francisco Giants and 13 runs Thursday night against the Minnesota Twins. “Whenever that happens, that’s always going to help you go on a run.
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It just doesn’t work out all the time”, said David Ortiz, who grounded into a double play with the bases loaded in the ninth. It was all the scoring Minnesota needed as Gibson (3-6) did the rest.
Farrell said the issue has existed only since the All-Star Break.
Kintzler entered the night with a season ground-ball rate of 61.8 percent, ranking him ninth among 205 big-league relievers with at least 20 innings.
“(Boston’s) a good team, a really good team”, Gibson said. Changed speeds, good sinker. That played heavily not just into Molitor’s decision to play the infield in but to lift starter Kyle Gibson (3-6) at 96 pitches after he allowed just two hits in eight sterling innings.
With a golden opportunity to tie or win the game, Ortiz grounded into a double play that did not score a run.
After Bogaerts’ single in the first, Boston didn’t get another man on base until Gibson walked Brock Holt to lead off the sixth.
Betts did not take the field with the Red Sox in the top of the fifth. Martinez took over in right field and the Red Sox announced a few minutes later that Betts had left the game with soreness in his right knee.
“If it’s deemed necessary, sure”, Farrell said.
“We wouldn’t take any risks with Mookie, certainly”, Farrell said.
ORIOLES 5, INDIANS 1: Mark Trumbo hit a three-run homer, Manny Machado added a solo shot and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Cleveland Indians 5-1 on Friday night to provide rookie Dylan Bundy with his first major league victory as a starter.
“I don’t know but he should keep on throwing it the rest of the season”, Ortiz said. The game wouldn’t be that easy you know. Pitcher, he tried to get us out and that’s what they are there for. “I don’t know that I’ve got quite enough years under my belt to demand the ninth inning”. The lefty showed solid command of his slider and did well to work out of jams after giving up base hits, but his pitch count quickly got too high.
Kurt Suzuki, who was given the day off Friday, is expected back in the lineup. The temperature at gametime was 92 degrees.
“Gibson was the story”, Twins Manager Paul Molitor said.
Red Sox: Betts left the game in the fifth inning with soreness in his right knee. “But right now, day-to-day”.
Through his first 15 career innings at this hitter’s paradise, Gibson has a 0.60 ERA with four hits and one walk allowed.
Price (9-7, 4.36 ERA) has been durable, if nothing else, in his recent starts at Fenway Park.
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His last start at Fenway came four years ago with Miami, a nine-run debacle over 3 1/3 innings of a 15-5 loss on June 20, 2012.
