Cruz & M’s go for series win tonight against Sox

“It was a tough play”. “I wanted to go back out there and get us back in the dugout to hit”. “I just have to wait for the pain to go down a little bit”.

Holt, who entered the game as a pinch hitter for Bryce Brentz in the seventh, won it after Travis Shaw led off the 11th with a single and was sacrificed to second. “The swing he took, it looked like he was just trying to stay alive”.

Shaw opened the second with his 13th homer, driving a 2-0 pitch over the right-field wall to put Boston up 1-0.

O’Malley slammed his glove at the ground in frustration.

“I felt good”, Porcello said when asked about the incident.

From the first day of spring training, the Red Sox figured they’d score enough runs in 2016 to wish they could stash a few away for next year. He got out of the inning, but then he gave up a first-pitch home run to Shawn O’Malley to lead off the bottom of the fifth.

He’s now expected to play left field on an nearly regular basis for the Boston Red Sox. He departed after allowing two runs in six innings.

“We’ve had success against (Iwakuma) in the past”, Boston manager John Farrell said, “and it was his turn tonight”.

“I don’t see him wearing down”, Farrell insisted before Thursday night’s game.

Cano grounded out to second.

Craig Kimbrel (2-3) retired all four batters he faced – including striking out the side in the 10th – for the victory. The Red Sox fell 5-4 to the Mariners last night. Kimbrel returned for the tenth, and sat the Mariners down 1-2-3, all by way of the K, leaving the Mariners to turn to yet another Triple-A call-up in Cody Martin.

In Houston, Josh Donaldson hit two home runs, and Marco Estrada threw seven solid innings for Toronto. He came in and did his job and luckily we were able to get more costly. “They did a good job”. The Red Sox beat the Mariners 3-2 in 11 innings.

Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma lasted 7- 1/3 innings and struck out seven.

Angels 8, Athletics 6: Albert Pujols hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Los Angeles a victory over Oakland. Benintendi was stranded when Xander Bogaerts fouled out to end the inning. The Mariners will be sending 34 pounds of Northwest king salmon back to Boston for the man who wears Number 34 for the Red Sox. That could come down to the performance of the bullpen – and it’s an encouraging sign that they turned in one of their best performances of the season in Seattle, just as the team gears up for the stretch run. He recorded two outs both also allowed a single and walk. And Lind kept his fly ball fair down the right field line to give Seattle a 3-0 lead.

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“I had a feeling (it was gone)”, O’Malley said. “I didn’t quite know what to expect there”.

In Ramirez’s absence Wednesday, Travis Shaw was in the lineup at first base and Aaron Hill was at third, an alignment that figures to be used again in the series finale Thursday. Cruz’s homer was estimated at 441 feet and reached the second deck in left field.

But they would manage the longer form run in that very same inning, taking advantage of a bunt single (which ended with Dustin Pedroia toppling over Pomeranz) with a two-out base hit to tie the game. But three of those four hits landed in the outfield seats of Safeco Field to provide all the offense the Mariners would need.

“Kuma was outstanding tonight”, manager Scott Servais said.

“These games, it’s about getting the big hit”. We’re in that pitch-good, don’t hit; hit well, don’t pitch (phase). “We just didn’t finish it off”.