Henry Owens, Boston Red Sox shut out Baltimore Orioles in series sweep

It didn’t seem to bother him on the mound.

Hazen said Cherington backed his decision to go after the position. “What do I do during the anthem?”

The Sox would go on to win it, 8-0, shutting out the Orioles in consecutive games.

The reason it came about is that interim manager Torey Lovullo is trying to preserve his staff for the final week of the season. “They all stepped up and did a very good job”.

On Friday, the Pirates hung on for their seventh straight win and increased their lead for the NL’s top wild card to 4 1/2 games over the Cubs. “It doesn’t happen in August or whatever, and that’s a whole different thing”.

A two-time All-Ivy League outfielder at Princeton, Hazen was selected by the San Diego Padres in the 31st round of the 1998 draft.

Boston reliever Heath Hembree (W, 2-0) earned the victory, pitching a scoreless fifth inning. “Fortunately they were willing to share their secrets so I got here a little bit later than most of the guys”. “‘What type of a routine should I go through?’ Fortunately, they were willing to share some of their secrets”.

“I was pretty nervous”, Breslow said, adding that he couldn’t shake the nerves until well after he came out of the ballgame. The bats logged eight hits and walked five times with Josh Rutledge driving in two while Mookie Betts and Brock Holt each driving in runs and scoring twice.

NOTES: A day after the Red Sox hired Mike Hazen as their new general manager, the club brought in former Atlanta Braves GM Frank Wren to serve as vice president of baseball operations and also named Brad Pearson head athletic trainer and Paul Buchheit as his assistant.

O’s starting pitcher Kevin Gausman, while a Red Sox team that he just saw less than two weeks ago, had yet to record an out in the 7th inning in the month of September. Alexi Ogando, Tommy Layne, and Noe Ramirez each got an out in the eighth inning.

Holt’s efforts lead to another Boston run in the sixth inning.

Longoria homered with two outs in the sixth to spark a three-run outburst as 2B Logan Forsythe followed with a single and SS Asdrubal Cabrera and RF Steven Souza Jr.

Orioles: CF Adam Jones was back in the lineup after missing six straight with back spasms. They hit some balls hard for sure, but even the dinkers were in places where nothing could be done about it. Just another frustrating game in a frustrating season.

On the other hand, Farrell was 50-67 before leaving the Red Sox and finished 71-91 in 2014.

“It was scripted in an unbelievable way to end the game the way it did”, Lovullo said.

“You don’t think about (the opening) right away”, he said. Pedroia tried to score as well on the play, but he was thrown out at home.