Red Sox rout Tigers, trade Napoli

But his 14 games leading up to the Texas reunion, he posted a. 957 OPS with six doubles and three home runs to raise his average to.207.

The 22-year-old shortstop has come through in the clutch when the Red Sox have needed him as he has two walk-off hits, including Friday’s walk-off single against Detroit. 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. 259 with 23 home runs and 92 RBIs. Rivero, who’ll be assigned to Pawtucket, played four games for the Sox last year and was hitting. Napoli was a class act and he embraced Boston in the time that he was in a Red Sox uniform.

Rookie southpaw Henry Owens (1-1) and four other Boston pitchers cobbled together a four-hitter to let the Red Sox hitters jump on a Tigers bullpen whose ERA jumped to 4.31.

A walk to Jackie Bradley Jr. got the Red Sox on the board, and Brock Holt drove in another run with an infield hit on a dribbler to second.

Teams can still make waiver trades up until August 31, so keep an eye out over the next three weeks.

Marrero was hitting. 237 with five home runs and 22 RBIs for Pawtucket.

Napoli can give them a feared right-handed bat with power, and even though his numbers this year aren’t good, he’s seemingly turned things up a notch over the last couple of weeks. Farrell said it might be a stretch to bring Uehara back at all this weekend. It was his 23 multi-hit game of the season. He was relieved after Kinsler led off the sixth with a ground-rule double to left.

Scott Oberg (3-2) pitched a scoreless seventh inning, John Axford worked the eighth, and Tommy Kahnle got three outs for his first major league save.

“Every single day, I want to go out there and show that I’m putting the work in”, he said. “That’s when location becomes much more important”. While Detroit’s offense is still considered one of the best in the league, they need some more timely hits like they received yesterday from Kinsler and V. Martinez.

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.

What happened: Bruce Rondon gave up one walk struck out two batters in the ninth to earn his first save of the season.

The Veteran slugger Napoli has hit a combined 53 home runs in his past three seasons with the Red Sox. The left-hander is taking the place in the rotation of injured former Detroit starter Rick Porcello.

It’s not that the Tigers were being too aggressive, either, with Owens preying on that aggression by throwing outside the zone.

Schwarber, who homered the previous two games, also scored two runs to help put the Cubs 1 1/2 games ahead of San Francisco for the second wild card.