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Sentinel and Enterprise staff photos can be ordered by visiting our SmugMug site. The Red Sox said he is expected to make a full recovery. Boston manager John Farrell says the swelling has gone down some, but he indicated it might be a stretch for Uehara to return this weekend. “When he swings the bat like that, he has the potential to be an outstanding player”.

“The one concern is that you don’t want to load the bases sometimes because you’re concerned about the walk”.

Norris (2-2) struggled with his command and gave up three hits in a 39-pitch first inning, including Ramirez’s double that staked Joe Kelly (4-6) to an early lead.

“It’s good to end up in the good side”, Martinez said. The 2011 AL Cy Young Award victor struck out seven and walked three while throwing 113 pitches. “It’s fair to say that I’ve got to sit and talk with both as we go forward”. He walked with the bases loaded in the second inning.

His night began with a diving stop of Yankee left fielder Brett Gardner’s ground ball and an accurate throw to get the second out of the first inning.

Bradley’s walk got the Red Sox on the board, and Brock Holt drove in another run with an infield hit on a dribbler to second. Castellanos infield single to shortstop, J.Martinez to third.

Bradley Jr. worked an RBI walk on the ensuing at-bat, pushing the first run across the plate for Boston. I wasn’t trying to hit corners there. I was banking on being able to face Bradley, not walking him, and getting him out.”. That one-out single let Swihart go to third, and he scored on a forceout hit by right fielder Rusney Castillo.In the fifth inning, Davis slammed a 2-2 fastball over the fence in left-center for Detroit. “He is a guy who always hits lefties”, Daniels told ESPN on Friday evening.

“At a few point, we need our bullpen to get people out”, Ausmus said. “You have to get that out”.

Bradley worked the count to 3-2 leading off the seventh against lefty Tom Gorzelanny.

Napoli, 33, was batting just.207/.307/.386 with 37 runs scored, 13 home runs and 40 RBIs in 98 games with the Red Sox this season and hasn’t entirely been the player Boston was expecting him to be after he signed a two-year, $32 million deal before the 2014 season. Because I earned it.

Junichi Tazawa pitched for the first time in almost a week, and the results were similar to his previous outing.

Victor Martinez hit two home runs versus Kansas City on Thursday, his seventh career multi-home run game and his first since hitting two home runs as a member of the Red Sox versus the Blue Jays on September 17, 2010. Not mentioned but critically important: Napoli’s role as a great baserunner in that series, most notably when he manufactured what proved to be the game-winning run in Game 5 with a ideal read on a dirt ball, scoring from third.