Verlander on a career worst losing streak

Big Papi homered twice and drove in a career-high seven runs to lead the Boston Red Sox to an 11-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday night. “I’m not rebuffing what the philosophy has been either”, said Cherington. This afternoon, Alfredo Simon goes up against Steven Wright.

“It always makes me a little nervous when a player’s facing the team that traded him away”, Ausmus said. Boston doesn’t need to search anymore because it looks like they have found their shortstop for years to come.

Jul 21, 2015; Houston, TX, USA; Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell (53) walks off the mound after a pitching change during the fifth inning against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park. The bats have come alive of late, but the likes of Joakim Soria, Blaine Hardy and Neftali Feliz may be the ones deciding what happens to the Tigers in this series, and beyond.

Holt was removed from the game in the sixth inning due to left knee tightness after twisting his knee in the first inning rounding first base.

“I don’t know if he’s slowing down or not”, Detroit manager Brad Ausmus said.

The loss moves Detroit back to two games below.500.

Price (9-3) has a 2.31 ERA and a 1.09 WHIP; all other Tigers starters are 26-32, with a combined 5.14 ERA and a 1.38 WHIP.

Red Sox: Pedroia missed 16 games before the All-Star break with the same injury. That wasn’t the case on Sunday as former major league pitcher and ESPN anaylst Curt Schilling heavily criticized Greene for his inability to keep his fastball down in the zone.

But it was his second home run of the night in the seventh inning that really put the icing on the cake.

“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”, said Castellanos, who has three homers over his last five games.

Coming off a winless road trip, the Boston Red Sox could begin deconstructing their roster. Second baseman Ian Kinsler, who singled home a run and stole a base in the third inning, tripled with two outs in the Detroit eighth, but died on third when left fielder Yoenis Cespedes struck out.

The Red Sox entered this series with an eight-game losing streak, then took two of three from the Tigers. Martinez (single), James McCann (double) and Castellanos (home run). He hasn’t made it out of the fifth inning in two starts since being recalled from Triple-A Toledo. He has posted a 1.94 ERA in 36 appearances with the Tigers, striking out 30 and walking just eight in 51 innings pitched while allowing two home runs.

Mike Napoli chased Greene with a a ground-rule, RBI double, making it 5-1. That said, Hamels has had shoulder issues in the past and also benefits from facing a weak-hitting NL East lineups for years. The veteran perspective calls for a focus on tomorrow, but the Red Sox have faltered so dramatically that it will be hard for them to recover now.