It didn’t matter to the game’s result, but Matt Barnes took a major step back. He has still yet to give up an earned run through 12 innings of work. John Schreiber continued to be a revelation out of the bullpen as he pitched 1 2/3 perfect innings with two strikeouts. The Red Sox starter carried a sub-two ERA into Thursday before he gave up five earned runs – all against Andrew Vaughan, who hit a three-run double and a two-run homer – but it wasn’t cause for concern with the offensive’s performance and the bullpen shutting things down behind him. Michael Wacha had his worst start of the season Don’t look at the results, stay with the process and that was a great night for him.” 3. So it’s just a matter of keeping him under control. His expected batting average or OPS or whatever, all the cool stuff is out there. “I know the results aren’t there, but if you look under the hood, you see everything that he’s doing, hitting the ball hard. “He’s been swinging the bat well,” Cora said. But after four hits, including two doubles, Thursday – his third multi-hit game in his last eight – it’s starting to turn around for him. It might be easy to forget that Verdugo was the Red Sox’ best hitter through the first two weeks of the season before going through a tough stretch, as hard-hit balls were consistently not finding their way to hits. Christian Vazquez continued his recent tear with an RBI knock, Bobby Dalbec finally joined the party with an RBI single, and two scored when White Sox pitcher Bennett Souza airmailed a throw to first on a routine grounder from Jackie Bradley Jr. The Red Sox put the game out of reach in the eighth with a five-run surge, all with two outs. Two nights after driving the first pitch out, he crushed Keuchel’s second pitch to left, and it seemed to be contagious again. For the second time in three games, every Red Sox starter had at least one hit.Īlso for the second time in three games, Kiké Hernandez opened the game with a home run. In fact, though that trio accounted for six of the team’s 18 hits, none of them recorded an RBI in Thursday’s blowout. The days of Martinez, Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts being the Red Sox’ sole offensive run producers are long gone. The Red Sox’ supporting cast is continuing to rake Martinez continued his torrid stretch with another three-hit game Thursday, and he’s now hitting. Story has a good chance to be the American League’s Player of the Month, but he’ll have competition from his own teammate. Great feelings about that time, but just trying to just live in the moment and have good at-bats when I can.” “That’s really the only other stretch that I can say is pretty similar to this. Story told reporters in Chicago that this streak is reminiscent of his debut in 2016, when he hit seven homers in his first six career games. Story’s run of seven homers in seven games is the sixth such stretch in Red Sox history, with the last one coming via David Ortiz in 2006. “Now, this is the player that we envisioned.” “A few weeks ago, everybody was getting on him because of the way he was struggling,” Cora told reporters in Chicago. Story now has 37 RBI this season – including 32 in May – which ranks second in the American League.
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