Share this: BOSTON — A time traveler transported from the beginning of the season to Monday night’s game against the Detroit Tigers would have been quite confused by the Red Sox’s choice of pitchers. After getting six strong innings from Drew Pomeranz, acquired just 10 days ago from the San Diego Padres, manager John Farrell turned to Joe Kelly and Clay Buchholz, two pitchers who began the 2016 campaign in Boston’s starting rotation. For Kelly, Monday night marked his first relief appearance in a Red Sox uniform and first time coming out of the bullpen since 2013. The right-hander also hadn’t pitched at the major league level since Jun 1, which was evident when he entered in the seventh inning and began pumping serious
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Red Sox Notes: David Price Laments ‘Awful’ Season; Heath Hembree Optioned To Triple-A
BOSTON — David Price had yet another rough outing in perhaps one of the weirdest games we’ll see all season. It’s hard to say all of Price’s 11 hits and five earned runs against the Minnesota Twins on Saturday were a product of poor pitching, as the wind at Fenway Park was like something out of “The Wizard of Oz” for the first couple of innings. Price’s first run allowed in the first inning, for example, came after right fielder Robbie Grossman tripled on what would have been a routine fly ball. Instead, the wind carried the sky-high fly, baffling right fielder Michael Martinez before it dropped. “It was crazy,” Martinez said th... NESN.com
Red Sox Notes: Top Half Of Boston’s Lineup Explodes In 13-2 Drubbing Of Twins
Share this: BOSTON — The Red Sox piled on the Minnesota Twins on Thursday to the tune of 13 runs, and nearly 70 percent of them were driven in by the first four batters in Boston’s lineup. Mookie Betts, Dustin Pedroia, Xander Bogaerts and David Ortiz went a combined 14-for-19 (.737) with 10 runs, nine RBIs, two home runs and four doubles split among them. And needless to say, Red Sox manager John Farrell was pretty pleased with what he saw. “The top half of the lineup was outstanding,” Farrell said after the 13-2 win. “(Pedroia), five hits, you don’t see very often. Mookie, as I mentioned, the way he’s going right now — the month of July has been a very good offensive
Red Sox Notes: Hanley Ramirez Tried To Hit Third Home Run ‘To The Moon’
Hanley Ramirez quite literally just had the game of his life. The Boston Red Sox’s first baseman blasted a career-high three home runs — to right field, center field and then left field — and added six RBIs in an 11-7 win over the San Francisco Giants. But it just represented a good night at the plate, not anything Ramirez was intentionally trying to do. … For the most part. In reality, he only wanted to help his team win and excite his teammates. He succeeded. “It was kind of motivation in the dugout for my teammates, but I was pretty calm,” Ramirez explained in the clubhouse after the victory. “That’s a good
Red Sox Notes: David Price’s Start Vs. Yankees Not Terrible, But Not Up To Expectations
David Price’s latest outing against the New York Yankees on Sunday could have been much worse. The Boston Red Sox starter gave up a whopping 11 hits in the Bronx, walking one with only one strikeout over 5 2/3 innings, but he minimized the damage to just three runs, a two-run deficit the Red Sox’s offense should have been able to come back from. In short, Price wasn’t bad. But the Red Sox are expecting him to be great. Price was leaving pitches over the plate, and the left-hander couldn’t nail down a put-away pitch. After the game, he was forced to harp on the same thing he has all season: execution. “Even when I
Red Sox Notes: David Ortiz, David Price Enter All-Star Break With A Bang
BOSTON — David Ortiz always has had a flair for the dramatic, so it was only fitting that he’d do something special to cap off the first half of his magical 2016 campaign. The Red Sox designated hitter delivered the goods again Sunday, hitting a two-run, opposite-field home run off Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Jake Odorizzi to help lift Boston to a 4-0 win at Fenway Park. Big Papi’s towering blast gave him 22 homers at the All-Star break, an astonishing achievement for a 40-year-old DH who tallied a total of 23 homers during an injury-riddled 2012 season. Four years later, Ortiz somehow is playing some of the best baseball of his career, entering the...
Red Sox Notes: Dustin Pedroia Keeps Faith In Boston After Brutal Loss To Angels
BOSTON — As far as losses go, it doesn’t get much worse than what happened to the Red Sox on Saturday night. The Los Angeles Angels demolished Boston 21-2 in a game that Red Sox manager John Farrell said he was embarrassed by. The contest was rough for everyone, as the pitching (obviously) imploded, the defense allowed seven unearned runs on a season-high four errors and the offense barely got on the board. But Dustin Pedroia wasn’t ready to give up on his team quite so easily after the game. “Yeah, absolutely we need to get out of (the slump),” the second baseman said. “We need to play better. But going into the year,