Red Sox rout Indians 9-1, Shaw goes 4 for 4

It turned out that the old baseball guy was in town at the same time his dear friend John Farrell was having his first chemotherapy treatment Tuesday morning at Massachusetts General Hospital.

On Friday, John Farrell announced that he’d be leaving the team for the remainder of the 2015 season to seek treatment for stage 1 lymphoma. In fact, Farrell probably would not be the current manager of the Boston Red Sox if Terry Francona wasn’t the previous manager of the Boston Red Sox. The two managers played together in Cleveland in 1988 and worked together for several seasons in the majors when Farrell was a pitching coach under Francona from 2007 to 2010.

Before Tuesday night’s game between the Indians and Red Sox at Fenway Park, Francona didn’t want to speak for Farrell or give any updates.

Lonnie Chisenhall drove in three runs to help the Indians to their third win in the last four games.

“He mentioned that he was going to start Tuesday”.

On the bright side, the Red Sox are finally hitting and giving pitchers plenty of run support. The Red Sox recovered that run by way of a Shaw RBI single in the bottom of the ninth, however it was not almost enough to quell the Indians ferocious offensive attack.

Cleveland blew the game open with a five-run fourth inning.

Bogaerts had an RBI single in the fifth inning. They were coming off a World Series championship, with Shane Victorino locked into right field and a productive platoon of Daniel Nava and Jonny Gomes in left.

Boston chased Cleveland starting pitcher Trevor Bauer out of the game after just 1.2 innings. Like I said, I’m fortunate. “But once there was two strikes, I just wanted to get the bat on the ball and hope for the best”. “I think, like everybody else, it’s a little bit unsettling”, he said.

The teams combined for 66 runs on 98 hits, including 44 extra-base hits and 17 homers over three games that took 11 hours, 15 minutes to play. He gave up eight runs in five innings in a loss at Miami last Wednesday. This is news that has knocked back many in the game of baseball.

Betts appeared to miss a pitch that wound up in the dirt and immediately walked away – a sign he didn’t think he fouled the ball off. Interim manager Torey Lovullo came out and asked for a check to first and umpire Mark Wegner said foul tip into the dirt.

Rea got all the backing he needed when the Padres scored three runs on four hits off William Perez (4-4) in the second inning. “The first reaction was: I knew people would want to get at him”. Granted it’s a small sample size, but in his limited playing time he has actually performed better than Ramirez at the plate this season.

With a plethora of young outfield talent on the Major League roster and in the minors, it may be time for the Red Sox to seriously consider moving on from Ramirez in the offseason – even if it means eating a sizeable chunk of the $68.2 million he will have remaining on his contract.