Mariners edge Red Sox in 12 after blowing big lead

The Red Sox still need to figure out who is going to fill in for Kipper as Pawtucket’s pitching coach.

After allowing three runs and five hits – two homers – over 3 2-3 innings in a 10-4 win at Colorado on Aug. 4, he looked better in yielding two runs over five innings in Monday’s 3-2 home loss to Baltimore. “He’s hearing from a lot of people, as you’d expect”, he said. 279 with 16 home runs and 73 RBIs for the San Francisco Giants last season. “We said the most important thing is get back soon”. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It had tied Troy Tulowitzki for the majors’ longest this season.

“When they mentioned the word ‘cancer, ‘ it’s something that it doesn’t matter where it comes from, it kind of impacts you”, Ortiz said.

The Red Sox broke loose for the second straight day after manager John Farrell took a medical leave for the rest of the season to deal with lymphoma. Farrell said he planned on being back with the team for spring training.

Shaw had a two-run homer and solo shot, and Castillo’s was a two-run drive in Boston’s highest-scoring game of the year. It’s the third time in his last four starts he has allowed at least 11 hits. The first two batters of the inning reached on solid singles, with Breslow failing to handle Logan Morrison’s bunt to load the bases with no outs in the inning. Blanked in the first inning, Boston scored five times in the second and five more in the third.

Adrian Gonzalez hit a three-run homer to highlight a four-run fifth inning for Los Angeles. Coming off the Sox’ 22-10 drubbing of Cy Young Award winner “King” Felix Hernandez, Nuno certainly will be wary when he toes the bump Sunday. He did not go 5-for-6 with three doubles and two home runs, but it is hard to expect that from anyone, especially Bradley, according to ESPN. Pablo Sandoval and Alejandro De Aza homered, and David Ortiz and Blake Swihart each had three RBI. Franklin Gutierrez connected twice against him as Seattle built a 7-0 lead.

It was Seager’s strikeout with one out and runners at second and third in the fourth inning that likely put those bad thoughts into McClendon’s head. “But he sounded really good”, Francona said. “That’s what you (like) to see”. “(Sunday) hopefully we’ll have a good outing and win a game”. It makes the short list, certainly, but it might not even be his worst of the season.

Nelson Cruz left Tuesday’s game versus the Orioles with neck spasms, but the Mariners are hoping he can play Friday.

Ventura had three small pieces of skin scraped off his face and neck.

Bogaerts and Castillo homered for the Red Sox. What began as a normal morning for the Virginia native (Bradley Jr. was spotted withdrawing money from a Kenmore Square ATM just a few hours before first pitch), quickly morphed into an afternoon forever cemented in his memory bank. When playing as the favorite, the Red Sox have a 31-37 record and overall money line at -1,985.

With this superb run output, the starting pitching performances of Joe Kelly and Wade Miley are easy to overlook.