Uehara out for season

Verlander pitched six effective innings Sunday, but Detroit’s bullpen faltered in a 7-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox. He struck out seven and walked three while throwing 113 pitches. We’ve played in Triple-A together so I’ve seen that a lot.

“Obviously, I need to go deeper into games, and I always want us to win, but that felt good”, he said. “After two starts, I can look back and feel like I can trust my pitches in the zone instead of just tinkering around the corners”.

-RHP Justin Verlander is having trouble overcoming one fateful inning in many of his starts since coming off the disabled list in midseason. The Red Sox have scored 14 runs in their last three games and four or more runs in four of their last eight games.

“It’s hard enough to get guys out in this league, so when they keep hitting balls so badly that they get infield singles, it can get frustrating”, Verlander said.

Then Verlander walked Bradley Jr.to score the game’s opening run, and Brock Holt reached on a soft ground ball into no man’s land between first and second base. He’s not trying to trick them.

“It means I’m going to be here next year, ” Ortiz said after the game.

T.Shaw hit a sacrifice fly to center fielder Gose, Ortiz scored.

Brad Ausmus said it was the correct call. Kendrick is hitting. 296 with nine homers and 49 RBI in 105 games. We’ve gotta get outs in the bullpen.

Entering this weekend’s series with the Sox, the only position player drafted and developed by Detroit, and boasting a wins above replacement number better than 0.1 (according to Baseball-Reference), was catcher James McCann. 200 and it was lefty vs. lefty.

“That hitter in the lineup isn’t the one you’re concerned about, but you still have to get him out, he’s still a major-league player”, Ausmus said.

On a full-count pitch, Bradley Jr. tripled down the right-field line, emptying the bases.

Hardy relieved Simon to face Ortiz with two outs and the bases loaded, and Ortiz grounded a 1-2 fastball up the middle for a two-run single to put his team back on top, 6-5.NOTES: Boston LF Hanley Ramirez, who has been battling various ailments, was a late scratch.

“Left-handers have been getting very good swings off him in the last few outings and thats what happened again tonight, ” Red Sox manager John Farrell said. Unfortunately further tests showed his injury to be much more significant than they had imagined.

Nick Castellanos #9 of the Detroit Tigers celebrates with teammate Anthony Gose #12 after scoring during the sixth inning of the game against the Boston Red Sox on August 8, 2015 at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan.

-LHP Matt Boyd makes his second consecutive start against Kansas City on Monday night in his second start for Detroit.