Sox scratched by Tigers, lose 5

Both teams have big payrolls with huge commitments over the next three seasons. The Detroit offense has done a good job of carrying the team as they are averaging over one and a half home runs per game since the beginning of the month. I remember looking at this park when I was younger and seeing how tall it is and saying: “‘How does anyone hit one over it?’ To say I was able to do it in a game is pretty cool”. “I want to play”, Cabrera said. Their starting pitching has fluctuated between being serviceable and a disaster, their offense has been inconsistent, and their hardest working player, Dustin Pedroia, is back on the disabled list after aggravating his hamstring injury.

It’s an offensive night that the Sox have apparently been saving for the rest of the second half, as their eleven runs came just five short of matching their post-break total to this point.

“Today was a day that emotions were going all over the place”, the 39-year-old Ortiz said. The knuckleballer was ripped for six runs on six hits – including two home runs – and three walks in five innings to suffer the loss against the Angels. Even though he has been shaky of late, he still owns a 6-6 record to go along with a solid 2.79 ERA and 115/28 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

Justin Verlander and Rick Porcello dueled to the deadlock, with the Red Sox driven over a operated among the 11that gives the best results for your skin problems inning to make it the assortment opening line.

Verlander, coming off a shelling at the hands of the Baltimore Orioles and winless in his seven 2015 starts, gave up a run on seven hits in eight innings, not walking anyone.

Detroit Tigers starter Alfredo Simon has left Saturday’s game against the Boston Red Sox after throwing a pitch in the seventh inning and then appearing to limp slightly.

Rodriguez will get his second opportunity to make a primetime start as he was supposed to start in Los Angeles last Sunday night before the rainout. He had been 1 for 22 over his past six.

Red Sox C Swihart was charged with four passed balls, two coming in one inning. The Red Sox must start getting production at the plate in order to improve.

The Sox have had countless chances to contend this season despite their poor play, but they’ve failed to come through on all cylinders. His 111th pitch was a changeup that Holt popped up. He struck out six, all swinging, and he didn’t issue a walk – the fifth time this season he hasn’t issued a walk in a start. Red Sox 8, Tigers 1.

1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. But Porcello is still having his worst season since 2010, when he was 4-8 with a 5.55 ERA on July 24.

The Red Sox, who have lost a season-high eight consecutive games, have had just one longer losing streak since 2002 (10 games, May 15-25, 2014).

The Tigers are third in the AL Central, 10.5 games behind the division-leading Kansas City Royals and four games out in the wild-card hunt. Mike Napoli, who apparently is still a viable hitter in manager John Farrell’s “Wildest Dreams”, grounded out to end the threat, leaving another three runners on base.