The Red Sox left Toronto with one win out of four games and a 2-6 record in September after a 7-4 loss on Thursday. They trail the Yankees by 2.5 games in the A.L. East. and lead Tampa Bay by 6.5 for the wild card spot. Tampa Bay hosts Boston for three games. Jays starter Ricky Romero won for the seventh time in nine starts. Toronto led 5-0 after six innings. Andrew Miller allowed four runs on four hits in the second inning, including a three-run home run by J.P. Arencibia. Boston scored three times in the seventh. Marco Scutaro doubled in two runs as the lead dropped to 5-3. Andrew Miller (6-3) allowed five runs on eight hits. Ellsbury had two hits and Scutaro finished with three hits. Jason Varitek homered in the ninth inning.
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For the third straight night, the Red Sox (80-50) overpowered Texas, this time with a four-home run attack on offense and a 10-strike out effort from their pitchers in a 6-0 victory. In three straight wins at the Rangers, the Sox outscored the home team 30-7. Boston scored early, too, with all six runs coming in the first four innings.
Jacoby Ellsbury has got to love playing the Orioles. His two home runs against them on Thursday powered the Red Sox to a 4-0 victory as he continues to feast on Baltimore's pitchers. vs. He was 5-12 with three RBI in this three-game series and has a 29-game hitting streak in which he's batting .445 with six homers and 20 RBI.
The Red Sox exploited Houston's pitching for the second straight game, this time resulting in a 10-4 win on Saturday. The only difference between Friday's comeback win and Saturday's rout was that the Sox got to work in the first inning with three runs on three hits, two walks and a double play that drove in a run. Boston closed with a flurry, too, with six runs in the last three innings, including four runs in the eighth.
The newest of Boston's starters salvaged the Red Sox only win in their last five starts as Sunday's game in Pittsburgh went in the visitors favor by a 4-2 score. Andrew Miller (1-0) pitched six innings and allowed two runs on five hits for his first win in a Red Sox uniform. The Red Sox bullpen held the Pirates scoreless for three innings. Alfredo Aceves, Daniel Bard, and Jonathan Papelbon also didn't allow a hit. Paplebon eared his 14th save.
Nearly flawless pitching was necessary as Boston's offense was unproductive once more. They mustered six hits, but benefited from four Pittsburgh errors and two sacrifice flies.
Andrew Miller gets the ball today as the Red Sox try to break their unexpected four-game losing streak in interleague play in 2011. Boston usually thrives playing against the National League. Tim Wakefield (4-3) couldn't beat his first MLB club, the Pirates in Saturday's 6-4 loss. He allowed five runs on seven hits in six innings. However, four of those runs came in the fourth inning, three on a Lyle Overbay home run. Jeff Karstens held Boston to four runs in 6.2 innings of work. The Red Sox got home runs from Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Reddick, and Jacoby Ellsbury. David Ortiz sits again unless he has to pinch hit.
The Red Sox (44-28) exploded for 10 runs in the seventh inning and crushed the San Diego Padres by a 14-5 score on Monday. Adrian Gonzalez, had a single and a double and three RBI in the seventh. His three-hit game brought his major league-leading batting average to .353 and major league-leading RBI total to 67. Boston got a lot of help from San Diego's pitchers in the seventh as the Padres walked four batters and hit two others. Three runs scored as both hit batters were hit with the bases loaded, and one walk also came with the bases loaded.
A weekend dedicated to honoring the Bruins' first Stanley Cup in 39 years ended with the Boston Red Sox resounding 12-3 rout over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday. The Sox joined in the city-wide celebration by welcoming the Bruins, the Stanley Cup and the duck boats to Fenway Park for a pre-game homage to the champs.
Today's Redux is going to be short and sweet - let's face it, there isn't a whole lot of good news to report from the first in the Red Sox three-game visit to Detroit. Friday night was just plain ugly, a 9-2 loss to the Tigers that served as the proverbial "other shoe" from Thursday's Devil Rays slaughter. After tearing up Fenway the night before, it seemed the Sox had nothing left to start off...
It's always a good sign when the only two elements of suspense to a ballgame are (1) will we get to the fifth inning before the rain comes, and (2) will the starting pitcher's arm get stiff from sitting in the dugout for a long time while his offense scores bunches of runs. Fortunately for the Sox last night, the answers were yes and no, respectively, as the Sox pummeled the Devil Rays to a...
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