Benintendi Called Up To MLB By Red Sox

Benintendi joined the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday and is scheduled to make his first major league start Wednesday night against the Seattle Mariners. Abad gave up a 3 run homer to Cano to now have the Mariners in the lead. “We probably need to look where we’re headed- in the short-term anyway – to get him back on track”, Mariners manager Scott Servais said.

In an interview with Kevin Burke of the Salem Red Sox earlier in the year, Red Sox President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski said the club looked, “for guys who are clearly better than their current level”.

“You have to play 27 outs to beat us”, Betts said. “You’re starting to see that more and more now”. He came up with Houston and also pitched for Washington and Oakland. Rick Porcello will try to get the Sox back in the win column as he gets the start in game three against the Mariners tonight, seeking his fifteenth win of the year. His RBI single in the eighth cut the deficit to 4-2 and extended the rally that led to Cano’s game-winning homer. In his last six games in the minor leagues, Benintendi hit. Price was cruising, with a 4-0 lead in the eighth, having allowed just three hits.

Top Red Sox prospect Andrew Benintendi entered as a pinch-hitter for his major league debut and went 0 for 2, striking out to end the game. Only one baserunner managed to reach second base in the first seven innings against Iwakuma, that coming in the third when Andrew Benintendi got his first major league hit and advanced to second on Brock Holt’s two-out single. 351 with four homers, 16 RBIs, and 17 runs.

Boston scored its final run on Ortiz’s sacrifice fly in the eighth inning against Roach. “That’s kind of been the theme”.

Boston has used right-handed hitting Bryce Brentz – who started Tuesday night’s game – but he is batting only.273/.674.

The newbie had a chance to be the hero, but ended the game when he was caught looking and Boston would lose another tough game, 5-4.

Baseball America’s 2015 College Player of the Year has the long-term ceiling of a middle-of-the-order hitter, but he should slot into the bottom third of the Boston lineup for now and provide a major boost to an offense that has scuffled at times in recent weeks. “You’re more calmed down because you’re not anxious about getting a hit or making a good play to help your team out”. Rodriguez somehow got his glove up to prevent the ball from hitting him in the face, resulting in a lineout before he threw to first to double up the runner.

Boston’s school system ran a pilot of the wakeup calls a year ago, trying them out on two dozen students at the Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers, a charter high school in the shadow of Fenway Park. They are tied with Toronto, a game behind the Baltimore Orioles, after a dramatic win Monday.

Boston Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel was supposed to get a “soft” outing in his return from left knee surgery, according to manager John Farrell.

NOTES: Boston bolstered its bullpen by acquiring veteran LHP Fernando Abad from Minnesota in exchange for minor league RHP Pat Light.

Benintendi is expected to get more regular playing time down the stretch than Bogaerts did in 2013, although the Red Sox will be careful not to put too much pressure on the outfielder. That has not happened with a Red Sox prospect since reliever Cla Meredith, a 2004 draft pick, was called up briefly in May 2005 for three appearances. The first time Red Sox fans heard his name he was wrestling on the pitcher’s mound with Kevin Youkilis like a bunch of WWE wannabes.