Indians routed by Red Sox, 9-1

The UConn baseball coach had American Athletic Conference meetings in Providence through the early evening and again Tuesday morning. “The first reaction was: I knew people would want to get at him”.

Lovullo, a former infielder, played for the Phillies under Francona in 1999. “It never gets old”. That’s what I’ve seen all the time.

Yet, for the active members of the 2015 Red Sox, they need to remember that this game is also their job. This is not news. Betts lined out to left fielder Raburn.

Bauer, who allowed six runs in 3 1/3 innings in his previous start, was gone after striking out shortstop Xander Bogaerts. The Indians have scored 10 runs in their last three games and four or more runs in six of their last 10 games.

“He’s up to 90 pitches….” He was commanding his fastball, everything was crisp and downhill.

Manager John Farrell began his pre-game press conference with the startling announcement that he has cancer. “I want to continue to do that the rest of the year and following years”.

The Red Sox are coming off of a hot pitching game where they recorded 11 strikeouts.

Barnes is being summoned from Triple-A to take over the rotation spot vacated by knuckleballer Steven Wright (concussion). Was he being showcased? He’s won just one of his five starts since a trade from Oakland. The catcher also threw out three runners trying to steal. Give me the Indians at a great price. There’s always emphasis to become a complete pitcher.

“I think – like a lot of us – you just do the best you can”, Francona said “I think right now I’m supposed to be a friend”. “I was glad that under the circumstances we could be there”. Where he winds up for us, we’re not sure. “He was a guy who brought me along in every way he could because he knew I was going to play attention and watch some of the things that he was doing and running his ball club”.

And for a time he did.

Shawn Tolleson (5-2) worked a scoreless ninth inning for Texas. He struck out five and didn’t walk a batter. Two pitches later, Betts cleared the bases. He used his fastball that peaked at 95 MPH to strike out Jerry Sands and Ramirez in a perfect third.

The only player to not have a hit in the starting nine was Hanley Ramirez.

That’s when it all went wrong.

Abraham Almonte drove in the first run with an infield single. However, the left-hander must rebound after giving up eight runs in five-plus innings of a 14-6 defeat at Miami on Wednesday.

Santana homered in the fifth, and Chisenhall hit his an inning later.

Salazar allowed the homer and three other hits in seven innings. I’ll start out with myself on this one. I could see he was frustrated. The first inning, I kind of had to settle in a little bit.

There’s not much else to say about this one. “I’m really glad we went over and I know Chris Antonetti went over after we left”. Jean Machi finished the game forthe Red Sox with a 1-2-3 9th, wherein Jason Kipnis pinch hit in his first appearance since returning from the DL.