Red Sox rally past Rays 8-7

Since dipping to a season-worst 14 games under.500 on August. 12, Boston is 22-13 with 6.1 runs per game and an MLB-best.301 average. Machi had allowed a home run to Asdrubal Cabrera in the at-bat prior.

Cash noted that Moore did a “nice job” moving past his previous start at Fenway.

DENVER (AP) – Starling Marte homered among his four hits and came within a triple of the cycle, and Pittsburgh beat the Rockies. At that point, Boston is in the same situation again that they were this season where they are wondering if Ramirez can get acclimated to another position. More importantly, the All-Star left-hander helped Houston keep momentum by winning its third straight. The victory put the Astros within a game of first-place Texas in the AL West.

Franklin walked and Jaso followed with a two-run single. “Obviously this year he’s one of the better ones in this division, so he’s been hitting a lot of good pitches all year long”. The 26-year-old New Jersey native, who has permitted 24 homers in 150 innings, is 5-6 with a 4.38 ERA at home as opposed to 3-7 with a 5.96 mark on the road. He cited after the game that he was having trouble commanding his curveball throughout the start. All of the runs were scored from the seventh inning on.

The Cubs inched closer to a NL playoff berth as their magic number to clinch fell to four. Even though Porcello has been good enough for the Red Sox in his last couple of outings, he pitched poorly in his last start and allowed six runs (five earned) on eight hits and 6.0 IP.

Rays: LHP Matt Moore (1-4) is set to start Tuesday.

The budget-conscious Tampa Bay Rays, who happily collect misfit players, made room for Nava and on Wednesday night he showed his value.

Right-hander Jean Machi (1-0) got the win after retiring the only two batters he faced. “Bill Welke felt like his explanation was that the ball was in an area that could have caused harm and it wasn’t necessarily the speed of the pitch or the type of the pitch or the direction of the pitch, and I disagreed”.

A two-run homer by Mike Mahtook in the eighth on a hanging curveball closed out the scoring for the Rays. Ross Jr. pitching. Loney flied out to center fielder Bradley Jr.

And on Sunday, after racing home from third on a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, Sandoval left the game because of “lightheadedness”. But the Red Sox mounted a two-out rally against the Rays bullpen. Andrew Chafin struck out pinch-hitter Scott Van Slyke and David Hernandez fanned pinch-hitter Scott Schebler.

“That was obviously nice”, said Nava, who was designated for assignment by the Red Sox on July 30.

Xander Bogaerts provided most of the offense with a grand slam and an RBI double.

Ortiz hit his 500th at Tampa Bay on September 12.

The result may not have been in his favor, but Boston’s Rick Porcello is saving a lost season with some quality starts in the final weeks. It was also his first time going beyond five innings in a major league start since his first of two in 2014 before undergoing elbow surgery.