Red Sox rock Sale, win 8-2 to snap White Sox streak
The game ended with the White Sox winning 9-2.
Adam Eaton opened the game with a home run, Jose Quintana pitched 6 1-3 solid innings and the White Sox beat the Boston Red Sox 9-2 on Wednesday night for their season-high seventh straight win. The White Sox, meanwhile, have won seven in a row. Our job is to keep everybody together and that’s when we play well. It also extended his hitting streak to 10 games. Red Sox 3, White Sox 2. After a double by Rusney Castillo, White Sox starting pitcher Jose Quintana was pulled from the game. He gave up Napoli’s homer into the Green Monster seats in the seventh.
Sale (9-6) was chased after five batters in the sixth.
There is no Sonny Gray in Boston’s system, and if there is, we won’t know about it for a few years yet, hundreds and hundreds of big-league games from now.
“Had a bad game”, Porcello said.
Davis upside is that he can play all three outfield positions, and hes a ideal bench guy for a playoff situation where you might want to pinch run for someone to create some offense.
“When they signed Pablo to that deal I said the only problem he has is people are expecting all of a sudden for him to be a really good player”, said Merloni. Give me the road team by two or more runs to add value to the bet. Taz has been solid out of the pen, allowing just 13 earned runs off 37 hits in 42.2 innings of work.
DeSclafani tossed seven innings of three-hit, shutout ball, walking three and striking out three.
Sandoval tried to score from first base on Ryan Hanigan’s double to right with no outs in the third, but he was cut down by second baseman Carlos Sanchez’s relay throw from short right, getting tagged on a headfirst slide.
Boston loaded the bases with nobody out in the sixth after scoring twice to take a one-run lead an inning earlier.
While many (including myself) assumed the White Sox would be dealing Jeff Samardzija, now they may be adding talent at the deadline as they inch closer to the top in the AL Wild Card race.
Abreu’s last homer, on which Mookie Betts suffered a concussion Tuesday night, landed in nearly the exact same spot.
But after a rough season for the Red Sox (44-58), paired with Sandoval’s.262/.308/.381 slash line and a recent dehydration issue that forced him to exit Wednesday’s game, “Kung Fu Panda’s” conditioning is becoming a worry.
-Adam Eaton has stirred the drink, hitting at a.407/.484/.741 clip with two homers and five RBIs despite missing Sunday’s game. He’s collected at least one RBI in each, too. However, this is a different situation: Beane is known for moving his pieces when he thinks he can get the most for them, and it was just last offseason that he sent Josh Donaldson – in his first of four years of arbitration – to the Blue Jays for a package of prospects and young players to build towards the next great A’s club.