Gausman, Orioles beat Red Sox 2-0

Catcher Caleb Joseph had three of Baltimore’s nine hits. Alas, they have been hitting them out like insane lately, so an off night is to be expected.

Kelly’s streak of winning eight consecutive starts ended Tuesday night when he came out of a game against the Baltimore Orioles complaining of tightness in the shoulder.

Although the Orioles (71-74) won the three-game series, the defeat in the finale stalled their long-shot bid to earn the second AL wild card. They’ve now won six of their last seven games in an attempt to keep those postseason hopes alive. Davis is a big reason for that. Game time is set for just after 7 PM. If the Red Sox would have swept the Orioles in this series, they would be in third place of the division.

The Red Sox found themselves unable to score and wasted another decent start from their rookie who is looking to secure a spot in the 2016 Red Sox rotation. M.Machado homered to center on a 0-1 count. Baltimore’s Chris Davis, whose 42 home runs share the major league lead with Seattle’s Nelson Cruz, delivered the game-winning RBI single Tuesday and is hitting.413 with seven homers and 15 RBIs in 13 September contests. In a 10-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles, Pedroia clubbed a pair of home runs, knocked in five runs and finally appeared to be fully back. “We still feel like it’s there for us if we can get the moment needed”, he said. That included escaping a fourth inning problem which saw the bases loaded with only one out.

Henry Owens has been in need of a game like this one.

1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on.

David Ortiz had the option of taking a day off. He quickly turned that offer down, responding to a text message from Boston interim manager Torey Lovullo Saturday morning by saying said he wanted to play. “But I think the majority of those guys are trying to hunt and drive the ball out of the ballpark”. “You don’t want to miss a pitch and get a blown inning”.

As for his struggles against McCann, “I’m just not going to talk about it anymore, so no further questions on that”, the pitcher said.

“It shocked the hell out of me”, Francona said with a laugh Wednesday. “It was just super tight”.

25 of the Boston Red Sox slaps high fives after scoring a run in the seventh inning against the New York Yankees at Fenway Park on August 31, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Never mind that the Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox have losing records. The Orioles answered with four runs in the bottom half. Machi gave up an RBI double to Adam Jones. The Boston designated hitter flied out to center, and Matusz induced a groundout from first baseman Travis Shaw to preserve the shutout. Bogaerts should be started in all leagues and makes for a good value in DFS. Machado then lined his tie-breaking homer in the fifth that stood up for three innings before the game went to extra innings. Prone to the disastrous start earlier in the season, Rodriguez seems to have applied sealant to that leak. “I can tell in his face that he’s feeling good”, manager Buck Showalter said.