Red Sox at Tigers

He hit just.236/.337/.444 in April and even worse in May; on June 1, Ortiz had just six home runs and 18 RBI.

Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz said he will return to the team next season after reaching a vesting clause in his contract. Davis is 2-for-5 with two home runs and four RBIs in his career against Red Sox starter Wade Miley. Boston is now 21-51 (.292) when allowing at least one home run, the second-lowest win percentage in Major League Baseball (Oakland -.246, 14-43). Owens walked four and allowed three hits while only striking out two, so he was fortunate to allow just the one run.

Barring injury or overwhelming ineffectiveness, Owens should be part of Boston’s rotation for the remainder of the season, as the Red Sox continue to shift their focus toward the future. By then, though, it was only enough to cut Boston’s lead in half, with Jackie Bradley Jr. having drawn a bases loaded walk off a struggling Justin Verlander in the second, and Brock Holt beating out an infield single to add one more before Rusney Castillo grounded out to end the inning.

Napoli’s power eventually led him to an initial three-year deal with the Red Sox where he ended up playing a big role in the team’s 2013 World Series championship.

Minutes before the first pitch of Boston’s game against the Detroit Tigers on Friday night, Napoli was removed from the lineup.

Ortiz is 4 for 8 with five RBIs in this three-game series with homers in each of the first two contests. It was his 20th homer at Comerica Park, the most by a visiting player in the park’s 15 seasons. He had one of the best offensive games of his careeragainst the Tigers today and was the reason Detroit was not able to tie the game. It was his second extra-base hit for the day against a lefty, with the homer coming off of Tom Gozelanny.

“We’ve always been of the mind-set that we have a real chance to win this year”, general manager Jon Daniels said. “That’s when location becomes much more important”.

Three stars: 1. Victor Martinez. 2.

Fox Sports Detroit cameras captured a dustup between shortstop Iglesias and catcher James McCann in the dugout midway through the sixth inning. H.Ramirez singled to left. Bogaerts flied out to right fielder J.Martinez. Boston was without closer Koji Uehara, hit on his pitching arm by a line drive the previous night.

2 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. He scattered six hits and gave up two runs in seven innings with two walks and five strikeouts.

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

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