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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 21, 2022 14:56:45 GMT -5
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne · 1m If the rain stops and the Red Sox play tonight in Williamsport, Pham will play and Hosmer won't. Both players have dealt with back issues in recent days.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 21, 2022 15:02:55 GMT -5
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne · 4m MLB official says there will be a weather update at 5 p.m. All we know for now is no BP on the field. As of now, first pitch still scheduled for 7:10 in Williamsport.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 21, 2022 18:59:58 GMT -5
Nathan Eovaldi injury: Boston Red Sox starter will not pitch Tuesday because of sore trap muscle (report)
Updated: Aug. 21, 2022, 5:37 p.m.|Published: Aug. 21, 2022, 5:35 p.m.
By
Christopher Smith | csmith@masslive.com
Nathan Eovaldi will not start Tuesday as he continues to deal with a sore trap muscle, manager Alex Cora told MLB.com’s Ian Browne in Williamsport, Penn. on Sunday.
The Red Sox and Orioles are in Williamsport to play the Little League Classic. First pitch is at 7:10 p.m. Sunday.
Boston has not yet announced any of its starting pitchers for its three-game series Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at Fenway Park vs. the Blue Jays.
Eovaldi initially was scheduled to start this past Thursday before being scratched and moved back to Tuesday.
“He hasn’t been able to bounce back in the same area, the trap, kind of, like, in there,” Cora said, per Browne. “IL, we don’t know yet. But he won’t start on Tuesday. That’s where we’re at.”
Eovaldi told Browne: “It’s frustrating. I feel like it’s going a little slower than we anticipated but I’m feeling a lot better. Every day, it’s just how can we make sure that I’m 100 percent especially going down the road for this next stretch. That’s the main goal, to avoid (the IL).”
Eovaldi is 5-3 with a 4.15 ERA and 1.26 WHIP in 18 starts for Boston this year.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 21, 2022 19:01:25 GMT -5
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne · 2h “It’s frustrating. I feel like it’s going a little slower than we anticipated but I’m feeling a lot better. Every day, it’s just how can we make sure that I’m 100 percent especially going down the road for this next stretch. That's the main goal, to avoid [the IL]." -- Eovaldi.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 2:41:57 GMT -5
Mateo lifts Orioles past Boston in MLB Little League Classic AP
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) Jorge Mateo felt like a kid again when he arrived in a town overrun by Little Leaguers wanting nothing more to do at a major-league game than chug Gatorades, hurry to reach the front of the line at the ice cream stand and yell for every run - no matter which team scored.
The speedy shortstop keeping Baltimore in the postseason hunt made the tiny stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, sound like Camden Yards for a night. The Little Leaguers had their fill of fun. The Orioles did, too, from cardboard races to the fireworks after the final out.
Mateo lined a bases-loaded double to left field in the eighth inning, driving in three runs and sparking the Baltimore Orioles to a 5-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night in front of hundreds of cheering Little League World Series players from around the world.
''It's something that reminded me of my own childhood,'' Mateo said through an interpreter.
Mateo kept the Orioles 2 1/2 games behind in the race for the third and final AL wild-card spot, and Baltimore won the fifth MLB Little League Classic in front of former President George W. Bush and a sellout crowd of 2,467 fans at historic Bowman Field. Bush shook hands with Orioles and Red Sox players and went into the stands to meet Little Leaguers and their families.
The kids went wild when Mateo ripped a shot off John Schreiber for the three-RBI double and a 5-2 lead. Matt Barnes (0-4) took the loss.
''He's been so good lately and it's fun to watch him play,'' Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said.
Red Sox pinch-hitter Franchy Cordero, called up for the game from Triple-A Worcester, hit a tying solo homer off reliver Dillon Tate in the eighth that made it 2-all.
''When they came off the field into the dugout, I was a little worried about some deflation, but right away guys are supporting each other,'' Hyde said. ''Our guys were really into it in the dugout.''
Cionel Perez (7-1) earned the win in relief. Felix Bautista gave up a solo homer to Xander Bogaerts in the ninth, but still picked up his eighth save.
Among the fans were the father, brother and teammates of injured Utah Little Leaguer Easton Oliverson. The 12-year-old seriously injured his head when he fell out of his top bunk in the dorms. Jace Oliverson, the boy's father, said Easton was expected to fly back Tuesday to Utah and will remain in a hospital there.
''I'm just grateful that he's still alive because I was pretty much told he had a zero percent chance to live,'' Oliverson told The Associated Press. ''We feel very fortunate.''
The rest of the day featured the usual revelry now associated with a game in which millionaire big leaguers get to act like kids for a day. Hyde and Red Sox manager Alex Cora took cardboard rides down the outfield hill outside the Little League World Series stadium. Cora's father founded the Little League chapter in the manager's hometown of Caguas in 1969.
''This was baseball at its purest,'' Cora said.
The front-row seats behind the dugouts belonged to 12-year-olds dressed in full uniform and hanging on every pitch -- well, at least when they didn't chase the team mascots for photos or storm the concourse between each inning in hopes of having a major leaguer toss them a ball.
''It's really just seeing the pure emotions from everybody, all the smiles on kid's faces,'' Orioles outfielder Ryan McKenna said. ''There were a bunch of kids that wanted autographs. I told them, `What's up?'''
Not much once the game started.
Anthony Santander and Ramon Urias had RBI singles in the first off Boston's Nick Pivetta. Pivetta, who took the loss for the Mets in the 2018 Little League Classic, struck out nine over 5 2/3 innings.
Enrique Hernandez made it 2-1 in the second with an RBI single off Dean Kremer.
''The kids have been great all day,'' Kremer said. ''It brought back memories of being a kid. Sometimes in this line of work, it becomes work and you forget that it's still a game. Today brought that back for a lot of us.''
Teams from Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and all around the globe sat only a relay throw away from Orioles and Red Sox in the type of seats usually reserved at MLB stadiums for deep-pocketed fans.
Graham Vinson, a 12-year-old pitcher/catcher/shortstop, plays for the Little League team out of Hagerstown, Indiana, and, yes, he's a New York Yankees fan. Vinson snagged a front-row seat and said he's a big baseball fan who enjoys watching games on TV. But when he wants the latest baseball highlights, well, he checks out TikTok, ''especially the Savannah Bananas.'' But he said there aren't a lot of friends his age who watch MLB - though teammate Kaden Hall loves the Cincinnati Reds - and found there are more electronic national pastimes for kids his age.
''It's all the types of phones and stuff,'' Vinson said. ''It's all Xbox and PlayStation and all that.''
That's one reason MLB launched a game like this one -- to try and steady the decline of baseball viewership among today's kids.
At Williamsport, they watched.
2023 CLASSIC
The 2023 game is already set: the Washington Nationals and Philadelphia Phillies will play Sunday, Aug. 20, in the sixth edition of the game. The Phillies lost to the Mets in the 2018 game.
UP NEXT
Both teams are off Monday.
The Red Sox and Toronto Blues have yet to name starters for Tuesday's game in Boston.
The Orioles open a three-game series Tuesday at home against the Chicago White Sox. The Orioles send RHP Austin Voth (3-1, 4.86 ERA) to the mound against Chicago RHP Lucas Giolito (9-7, 5.34).
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 2:45:05 GMT -5
Franchy Cordero’s pinch hit homer ties it but Boston Red Sox bullpen implodes in loss to Orioles at Little League Classic
Updated: Aug. 21, 2022, 10:49 p.m.|Published: Aug. 21, 2022, 10:39 p.m.
By
Christopher Smith | csmith@masslive.com
Franchy Cordero belted a game-tying home run in the top of the eighth inning but the Red Sox bullpen gave the lead right back in the bottom half.
Boston lost 5-3 to the Orioles in the Little League Classic in Williamsport on Sunday.
Matt Barnes returned for the eighth inning after recording the final two outs of the seventh. He walked Ramón Urías with one out, then manager Alex Cora replaced him with John Schreiber.
Schreiber loaded the bases with a hit by pitch and walk. He then gave up a three-run double down the left field line to Jorge Mateo.
Xander Bogaerts homered to lead off the ninth. He connected on a 99.2 mph fastball from Orioles closer Félix Bautista.
Cordero’s pinch hit homer
The Red Sox promoted Cordero from Triple-A Worcester before the game as their 27th player for the Little League Classic.
Cordero pinch hit for Bobby Dalbec and tied the game 2-2 with a 358-foot solo homer the opposite way to left field to lead off the eighth inning.
He connected on a 94.8 mph sinker from Baltimore reliever Dillon Tate who has dominated this season with a 2.48 ERA and 0.95 WHIP in 58 innings.
Pivetta K’s 9
Red Sox starter Nick Pivetta allowed two runs, six hits and one walk while striking out nine in 5 ⅔ innings.
The Orioles took a 2-0 lead on four singles in the first inning.
The defense and umpiring didn’t help Pivetta. Left fielder Tommy Pham probably should have caught Adley Rutschman’s 201-foot fly ball single.
Ramón Urías’ two-out RBI single came after home plate umpire Will Little missed a call, which should have been strike three.
Boston cut it to 2-1 in the top of the second inning as Kiké Hernández delivered a two-out RBI single.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 2:46:27 GMT -5
all those kids in the crowd will one day be able to tell their kids that one day they saw the Gas Can Gang in person.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 3:10:42 GMT -5
Injuries & Moves: Eovaldi pushed back again August 21st, 2022
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Aug. 21: RHP Nathan Eovaldi pushed back again When Eovaldi's Aug. 18 start in Pittsburgh was scratched due to a sore trap muscle, the plan was that he would pitch the first game of the upcoming homestand on Tuesday night against the Blue Jays. That is no longer the plan. Red Sox manager Alex Cora said that Eovaldi isn't progressing as quickly as the club hoped, and it's unclear when he will take his next turn in the rotation. Cora isn't sure yet who will start in Eovaldi's place.
"He hasn’t been able to bounce back in the same area, the trap [muscle]," said Cora. "We don’t know yet [if it will require a stint on the injured list]. But he won’t start on Tuesday. That’s where we’re at.”
“Yeah, that’s the main goal is to be able to avoid [the IL]," Eovaldi added. "I think that was the purpose of skipping my last start. I was hoping to rebound a lot faster but again, I’m feeling a lot better every day. I'll continue to do all the treatment and rely on our training staff.”
Aug. 21: 1B Eric Hosmer misses LL Classic with low back pain A day after exiting in the bottom of the fifth inning at Camden Yards with low back pain, Hosmer was not in the lineup for Sunday's Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pa. The Red Sox don't play on Monday, so the hope is that Hosmer will be ready to return to the lineup for the start of the homestand on Tuesday night.
Aug. 21: 1B/OF Franchy Cordero added as 27th man for LL Classic Because Sunday's Little League Classic is designated as an MLB special event, the Red Sox were able to add a 27th player to the roster. That player is Cordero, who was informed during Saturday's game with Triple-A Worcester that he needed to leave the ballpark and fly to Baltimore, where he flew with the club to Williamsport on Sunday. Cordero gives the Red Sox depth at first base on a day Hosmer is unavailable. In 72 games for the Red Sox this season, Cordero is hitting .219 with four homers and 24 RBIs.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 3:15:17 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 5h John Schreiber has now allowed eight of his last 18 inherited runners to score.
He had a 0.60 ERA in mid-July -- anyone would regress from that. Impossible pace to maintain.
But he's landed particularly hard -- 5.21 ERA is his last 16 appearances. #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 3:15:48 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 5h
#RedSox are 60-62.
Yet another night where Boston's offense sputters and its pitching staff is an arm or two short.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 3:17:16 GMT -5
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne · 5h At 60-62, the Red Sox are six games back in the Wild Card chase with 40 games left in their season. They are 16-32 against the East. Sox lose the Little League Classic, 5-3. Boston doesn't play Monday. Six-game homestand against Jays, Rays starts Tuesday.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 3:18:09 GMT -5
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne · 4h “I think Nick threw the ball great. Breaking ball was good. He had them fooled. They were late on fastballs, out in front on breaking balls. Overall, it was a great outing." -- Cora on Pivetta.
"We’ve got to win. We’ve got to win games. We’ve got to win series. We know where we’re at. We know it’s tough but we believe that we’re playing the teams that are right in front of us so we’ve got to keep playing good baseball. We’ve just got to be ready for Tuesday.” -- Cora.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 3:18:51 GMT -5
Ian Browne @ianmbrowne · 4h “Swing hard in case you hit it, kid. He threw that 1-0 in my face and it kind of woke me up a little bit. It felt good, i know we lost. Hopefully that can turn stuff around and I can help the team the way i know I can.” -- Bogaerts, on hitting 99.2-mph pitch for elusive HR No. 10
“I was going through a rough period and a lot of kids were coming up to me and saying, 'You’re my favorite player.' I’m like, 'I know I’m playing bad', but hearing something like that from the kids makes you feel proud of what you accomplished so far." -- Xander Bogaerts.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 3:20:32 GMT -5
Julian McWilliams @byjulianmack · 6h Schreiber is spent. Sox have had to rely on him so much
Jason Mastrodonato @jmastrodonato · 5h Schreiber, May 6 - July 25: 81 days, 33.2 IP, 6 ER (1.60 ERA), 498 pitches
Schreiber, July 27 - Aug. 21: 26 days, 13 IP, 7 ER (4.85 ERA), 209 pitches
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 22, 2022 3:31:58 GMT -5
RED SOX NOTEBOOK Red Sox, Orioles not simply along for the ride in Williamsport By Julian Benbow Globe Staff,Updated August 21, 2022, 8:12 p.m.
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The urge to be a kid again is irresistible. It was almost impossible for Red Sox manager Alex Cora to forget the memories forged from a childhood of seeing so many people slide down the hill at Lamade Stadium on TV. When the Red Sox arrived Sunday in Williamsport, Cora’s mind was made up.
“I was like, ‘I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna do it,’ ” he said.
He did. Then he did it again. Then one more time.
“They made me go down the hill head-first and it didn’t look great,” Cora said, referencing a run that was in heavy rotation before ESPN’s broadcast of Baltimore’s 5-3 victory, “but that was awesome.”
If his 46-year-old body feels it on Monday when the Sox travel back to Boston after a six-game road trip, then so be it.
“I’ll pay the price tomorrow,” he said. “I’ll be very sore, but it was fun.”
Nate Eovaldi and Christian Arroyo were watching from a distance, and they couldn’t help themselves either.
“Once we saw the kids going down, I said, ‘All right, let’s go over there, let’s go test it out.’ Once we got over there, the hill’s a lot steeper than it looks. Climbing up there, you start getting a little tired,” Eovaldi said. “Then, going down, I was flying down there.”
Watching his players take the tumble down the hill, Orioles manager Brandon Hyde admitted he started sweating a little.
“It’s a lot faster than you think,” he said. “After I saw a couple of collisions — and experienced one of my own — I was hoping that we had everybody safe.”
But even he couldn’t resist, racing his 14-year-old son.
“At first, when I looked up, I wasn’t sure,” he said. “But once I saw people going down, I wanted to try it. You never know when you’re going to be back and I’ve seen it on TV for years. So I wanted to have that experience.”
Both the Orioles and Red Sox are among the four teams chasing the three American League wild-card spots currently held by Seattle, Toronto, and Tampa Bay. But the few hours they spent soaking up Williamsport ahead of the Little League Classic tapped into some of the game’s youthful joy.
“I had a blast,” Cora said. “Honestly, you get caught up in 162-plus [games], the grind, spring training. Obviously, the offseason wasn’t a great one, right, with everything that went on. And just to come here and hang out with the kids and see baseball the way we used to see it when we were kids is refreshing. It put a smile on everybody’s face.” Embracing the day’s fun
The Little League Classic was born in 2017, and the Red Sox were originally scheduled to participate in the 2020 edition before the COVID-19 pandemic scrapped it. Even if the day was a detour, Cora wanted his players to throw themselves into it.
“One of the things that we’ve been telling the guys is it’s going to be different, but you have to enjoy it, you have to embrace it,” Cora said. “And I think they did.”
J.D. Martinez manned the microphone to interview Little Leaguers. Hirokazu Sawamura watched a few innings of the Japan vs. Latin America game. Kiké Hernández watched the Puerto Rico team.
Rafael Devers had a “Kids Say the Darndest Things” moment when one told him he was a Tampa Bay Rays fan.
“I told him to change over to the Red Sox,” Devers said.
Cora made the rounds. He surveyed the team from Italy for their favorite player.
“They went from a lot of Jays players to the Yankees to the Orioles,” Cora said. “They’re in tune with everything that’s going on.”
He took a special sense of pride seeing the Puerto Rico team’s jerseys. Following the 2021 Series, a three-year rotation was established between Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Panama that would give two teams an automatic berth while having one compete through its regional tournament.
Because of the format change, the Puerto Rican team had its country’s name across the chest of its jersey for the first time. Related: Abraham: As season winds down, Red Sox are left with a long to-do list
“Just to go there and let them know how important it is to represent our country,” said Cora, whose father created the Little League chapter in his hometown decades ago. “It’s actually the first team from back home that had ‘Puerto Rico’ on their chest. It was usually ‘Caribbean.’ And for them to be the first one, I kind of explained to them what it means to us. It was a great experience.”
He hid nothing from them. It might have been easy to tell the kids about the success of winning the World Series in his first season with the Red Sox in 2018. But it was just as important to be honest with them about the suspension he had to serve in 2020.
“Just be real with them and explain that there’s ups and downs in life but you can get up and keep going,” Cora said. “And hopefully they understand that.” Another delay for Nate Eovaldi
Eovaldi will not start Tuesday against Toronto. He’s still experiencing the neck soreness that led to him being scratched prior to his scheduled start Thursday against Pittsburgh.
“He hasn’t been able to bounce back,” Cora said.
Eovaldi said he felt good enough to pitch last week, but was playing it safe.
“It’s frustrating,” Eovaldi said. “I feel like it’s going a little slower than we had anticipated it. But I am feeling a lot better every day. It’s just how far can we push it back. We want to make sure that it’s 100 percent, especially going down the road for this home stretch.”
Eovaldi and Cora both hope a stint on the injured list isn’t necessary.
“That’s the main goal is to be able to avoid it,” Eovaldi said. “I think that was the purpose of skipping the last start. Like I said, I was hoping to rebound a lot faster, but again, I’m feeling a lot better every day. so I’ll continue to do all the treatment.” Eric Hosmer sits
Eric Hosmer was out of the lineup, still recovering from back spasms that forced him to leave Saturday’s game in the fifth, three innings after he was hit by a pitch. Bobby Dalbec took his place at first base . . . President George W. Bush visited both clubhouses prior to the game and made an on-field appearances prior to first pitch. He shook hands with fans as he walked through the crowd at Muncy Bank Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field . . . Mike Mussina was on hand. He was recognized along with Jason Varitek in the fourth inning. Mussina is a Williamsport native and serves on the Little League International Board of Directors. Varitek was part of the Altamonte Springs, Fla., team that won the US championship at the 1984 Series, and is the only player to appear in the LLWS, College World Series, MLB World Series, World Baseball Classic, and Summer Olympics, according to MLB.com.
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