Red Sox’s Kelly exits with shoulder ailment

Both Kevin Gausman and the entire Baltimore Orioles team was in need of a solid game – and they got it. Although granted, the Birds weren’t totally scuffling coming into last night’s game with Boston.

“If you consistently pitch like he did tonight, ” manager Buck Showalter said, “he’ll get his share of W’s”.

“I don’t think it’s that big of a deal”, he said.

“It’s going to be a different offseason because a lot of the core is now in situations where they can do things differently”, Jones said.

Brad Brach worked the seventh inning, Darren O’Day and Brian Matusz shared the eighth and Zach Britton got three straight outs to complete the three-hitter and earn his 33rd save.

Rodriguez allowed one run against the Baltimore Orioles before being pulled in the sixth inning of Boston’s 2-0 loss Monday night.

“I knew I wasn’t going to be long in the game”, Rodriguez said.

Boston leadoff hitter Mookie Betts went 0 for 3 with a walk, ending his 18-game hitting streak.

Baltimore was 62-57 before losing 12 of 13.

“We still have pride”, Jones said. Now the Orioles are trying frantically to make up the difference.

As the Red Sox continue to send Rodriguez to the mound, each successive start is testing his durability a little bit more.

David Ortiz does have some steroid controversy hanging around him, as he showed up in a 2003 report of players who failed a pre-screening test. This was done to get an idea as to how many players would test positive before formal testing was introduced. We recall that Rodriguez was the player traded previous year in order to have Andrew Miller for the final two months of the 2014 season.

Kelly lowered his ERA over the last seven outings to 1.85 after allowing one run in 5 2/3 innings en route to a 10-4 victory over Toronto on Wednesday.

Chris Davis lined a Robbie Ross, Jr. pitch into center field past a drawn-in Boston infield, pumping his right fist into the air as the ran to first and Gerardo Parra scored the game-winning run behind him, ending a four-hour, 20-minute marathon.

Hard to figure out either of these teams, as following them has been a rollercoaster.

Hat trick for Pedroia: Dustin Pedroia had a double and two singles, his first three-hit game since June 21.

Still, Jones made it clear in a Baltimore Sun Q&A last spring that he would not stay silent the next time a situation like that arises.

RHP Miguel Gonzalez, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder tendinitis September 4, threw on flat ground Monday. At this rate, Ortiz looks like he could go on for another two to three years, the latter of which could get him close to the 600-home run mark.

Much of his struggles against the Orioles this season can be pinned on one start, a start where it was later revealed that Rodriguez was unintentionally tipping his pitches, and the O’s took notice. His ERA was below 2.00, and he was striking guys out left and right.