The staff’s ERA was 2.38 with three complete games, and though Eduardo Rodriguez was hardly dominant against the Dodgers, he was hardly awful. The Tigers and Jays went 24-8 in his 32 starts previous year.
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Last season the Boston Red Sox may not of predicted it, but this year Steven Wright has been a crucial part of their pitching staff.
Dodgers (62-49): Los Angeles awaits the arrival of the Philadelphia Phillies as Julio makes his last start as a teenager on Monday night at 7:10PM PST.
Last season was a nightmare for the Red Sox starting staff. Injuries and inconsistency were very hurtful things. With David Price set to face Brandon McCarthy in the pitching matchup, the over/under now sits at 7 runs.
The week turned sour quickly on Saturday, when the Red Sox were shut out 3-0 in game two.
Los Angeles outhit Boston 11-5. “It started to crop up in the first inning”.
Dodgers starter Scott Kazmir (9-5) has lost two straight since a 13-start unbeaten streak.
Howie Kendrick followed Gonzalez with a homer four pitches later, marking the third time this season the Dodgers have hit back-to-back home runs.
“I was trying not to think about it”, Dayton said when asked about facing Ortiz. And they waited me out and had some good takes.
In the Red Sox 2015 campaign, they were hit with many setbacks to their pitching staff. Wright played a unique role back then too, serving as a reliever. That’s hardly ace-like. Price has had trouble with shutdown innings this year.
He also let a 27-year-old career minor leaguer who was making his major league debut beat him.
With the bases loaded and one out in the fourth, Segedin drilled a 2-0 pitch from David Price (9-8) over the head of center fielder Mookie Betts for a two-run double, his first big league hit in his second at-bat.
Red Sox manager John Farrell said, “It is somewhat ironic that [Ortiz] hasn’t been on the field in nearly a year, and the first ball that is put in play is a snare of a line drive on his part”. Wright came just one out away of the shutout on May 8th, before Brett Garnder hit a solo shot to spoil it.
Brandon McCarthy performed a magic act in the early innings as he escaped numerous jams before finally leaving the game with two outs in the fourth inning. So any time your lead guy’s on the mound, you’re looking to take away a win. That wasn’t the case. “Tonight we were able to do that from the get-go”. “That comes back to bite us”. His ERA only stands at 4.34 because of the errors, but in reality he didn’t pitch well. The four RBIs are the most by a Dodgers’ player in his debut.NOTES: Dodgers LHP Clayton Kershaw (herniated disk) played catch Sunday, the first time he’s thrown a baseball since suffering a setback with his back after a simulated game July 17. The 6-foot-2 pitcher reached high to get the ball before it went up the middle and, after dropping the transfer, quickly gathered it to barely throw out the speedy Suzuki.
A throwing error in the fifth by Bogaerts allowed Turner to score for a 4-2 Dodgers lead.
Last night against the Dodgers, Price lasted just five innings and allowed six runs (three earned) and five walks while striking out just three. That’s on him. Great that he pitched so well for seven innings, but you can’t ignore the one extremely bad inning either.
There’s no excuse for losing to the Dodgers on Sunday.
The Red Sox signed Basabe as an worldwide amateur free agent in 2012 out of Venezuela for $450,000, along with his twin brother, Luis Lejandro. Im not playing no more after this season..
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There are so few knuckleball pitchers that it’s hard to prepare for them, especially one you might see once every three years or so in interleague play. “I should be fine going forward”. “You want to show the hitters you’re going for strikes and getting swings”.
