Buchholz Tosses Complete Game, Red Sox Beat Astros 6

Unfortunately for Rodriguez, his starts at Fenway have not been his best.

Clay Buchholz knew he had it going right away.

That swing, resulting in a game-deciding two-run homer, allowed the Red Sox to erase their fourth deficit of the weekend and post a 5-4 victory over the Houston Astros this afternoon.

Ramirez, selected earlier in the day from Triple-A Pawtucket, was charged with four runs – two earned – and gave up three hits.

ORIOLES 9, WHITE SOX 1 (at Chicago) – Jonathan Schoop homered in his first at-bat since coming off the disabled list and Miguel Gonzalez threw six solid innings to lead Baltimore past Chicago. Red Sox 2, Astros 0.

“I was a little anxious because I hadn’t been in action for awhile, but I was able to pitch the way I wanted to”. It doesn’t happen often like that, ” he said.

Houston’s phenom 20-year old shortstop Carlos Correa (who has my birthday) took Craig Breslow deep into the Monster on the first pitch of the 8th because apparently he wasn’t satisfied with a tie game. Third baseman Luis Valbuena singled up the middle with two gone in the ninth to score Altuve from third and account for the Astros’ lone run. “A shutout is a little different”. “It’s pretty hard to do”.

Red Sox: Boston opens a two-game series at home against Miami on Tuesday.

A solo shot in the third inning by Jose Abreu, his 14th home run of the season, was all the Chicago White Sox needed to beat the Baltimore Orioles and extend their winning streak to three games.

The six combined to throw 5 1/3 innings, face 35 batters and allow 12 runs (five earned).

They are now 12-7 since snapping a seven-game losing skid that had many labeling the Red Sox as dead in the water. “We had just enough at the end”, Houston manager A.J. “He had a really good changeup, a really good cutter”, Hinch said. “This game was almost entirely about him”. Betts got offensive help from Xander Bogaerts, who went 2-4 with 2 RBI.

Masslive reports that his first game off the DL went well as he recorded two hits, helping the Red Sox to a win over the American League’s finest, the Houston Astros.

”Fastball was sporadic, especially early on, ” he said.

Finally, in the sixth, after Alexei Ogando turned in a scoreless sixth with Chris Carter being caught stealing at second, the Sox took advantage of some rough Houston fielding, with Hanley Ramirez reaching base on an error from Carlos Correa, and then scoring when Evan Gattis dropped a Pablo Sandoval double to left while trying to get it back to the infield. Betts’ sacrifice fly to left an inning later brought right fielder Shane Victorino home to make it 2-0.

Velasquez was sporting two large scratches on the left side of his neck in the clubhouse after taking Sandoval’s right cleat in the head on Preston Tucker’s foul pop in the fourth. They benched the struggling Mike Napoli today and used David Ortiz at first base at Fenway Park for the first time since 2005, allowing Ramirez to DH.

After relief pitcher Alexi Ogando surrendered consecutive home runs in the seventh inning to hand Houston a 4-3 lead, this appeared to be morphing into just one of those afternoons for Boston.