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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 18, 2020 15:10:02 GMT -5
Game 52: Yankees at Red Sox lineups and notesBy Andrew Mahoney Globe Staff,Updated September 18, 2020, 11:21 a.m. The Red Sox return to Fenway Park for a three-game series with the Yankees after going 5-4 on a road trip at Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, and Miami. Martín Pérez will be on the mound for the Sox. Lineups YANKEES (29-21): 1. DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B 2. Aaron Judge (R) RF 3. Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH 4. Luke Voit (R) 1B 5. Gleyber Torres (R) SS 6. Aaron Hicks (S) CF 7. Gio Urshela (R) 3B 8. Gary Sanchez (R) C 9. Clint Frazier (R) LF Pitching: LHP Jordan Montgomery (2-2, 4.76 ERA) RED SOX (19-32): 1. Alex Verdugo (L) RF 2. Rafael Devers (L) 3B 3. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS 4. J.D. Martinez (R) LF 5. Christian Vazquez (R) C 6. Kevin Plawecki (R) DH 7. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF 8. Michael Chavis (R) 1B 9. Christian Arroyo (R) 2B Pitching: LHP Martín Pérez (3-4, 4.33 ERA) Time: 7:30 p.m. TV, radio: NESN, WEEI-FM 93.7 Yankees vs. Pérez: Frazier 0-1, Gardner 2-10, Hicks 3-7, Judge 1-3, Kratz 0-1, LeMahieu 4-9, Stanton 3-5, Sánchez 2-5, Tauchman 2-2, Torres 0-6, Urshela 1-2, Voit 3-7, Wade 0-0 Red Sox vs. Montgomery: Araúz 0-1, Bogaerts 5-11, Bradley Jr. 2-8, Chavis 1-3, Devers 1-6, Martinez 1-4, Verdugo 0-3, Vázquez 4-8 Stat of the day: The Yankees have outscored opponents 71-20 and hit .312 (83-for-266) in the past eight games. Notes: Pérez is 2-3 with a 9.85 ERA in six career starts against the Yankees. ... Rafael Devers is batting .463 (19-for-41) with five homers and 14 RBIs during a 10-game hitting streak. ... The Red Sox are 1-15 in the past 16 meetings with the Yankees and 13-15 overall since a 6-3 loss in New York on Aug. 17. ... Montgomery is 1-0 with a 3.42 ERA in five career starts against the Red Sox. In his last outing, he allowed an unearned run on three hits in 5⅔ innings during Saturday’s 2-1 win over the Orioles. Song of the Day: Trooper- General Hand Grenade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb4HAHm-jvs
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 18, 2020 15:24:15 GMT -5
Bill Koch @billkoch25 · 11m Roenicke said Arauz is healthy but they're giving that time to Arroyo now. #RedSox
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 18, 2020 16:23:45 GMT -5
Darwinzon Hernandez returns to Boston Red Sox from IL; his long-term role as reliever or starter still undecided
By Christopher Smith | csmith@masslive.com
BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox have activated left-handed reliever Darwinzon Hernandez and optioned Robinson Leyer back to the alternate training site in Pawtucket.
Hernandez missed 18 games with a sprained left SC joint.
“We wanted to make sure that he was built up enough that we could use him. I don’t know if we’ll go two innings the first time,” Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke said. “So he may be able to go two innings before we’re done. And hopefully the strength is there, the command is there. And then I think it’s important just to get him back out and see that he’s healthy, going back into the offseason where he can get strong again and ready for next year.”
It has been a tough season for Hernandez who spent the first 25 games on the injured list after testing positive for coronavirus back home in Venezuela before the start of summer training camp.
The 23-year-old — who is a critical piece of Boston’s pitching staff moving forward into 2021 and beyond — has pitched 4 ⅔ scoreless innings in three relief outings for Boston this year.
The Red Sox initially planned to try out Hernandez as a starter as this season progressed. But his sprained SC joint ended any chance of him starting in 2020.
His future role remains undecided. He could work as a multi-inning reliever, closer or starter. Going back to even last year, more evaluators within the organization have viewed him as a longterm reliever than starter.
“I don’t think we’ve got to that point where we know,” Roenicke said. “I think we like him in the bullpen right now. And unfortunately with what happened to him, we weren’t able to get him in to see what he looked like as a starter. But I do know there’s a lot of people here who really like him in the bullpen. I think there’s also some people who think he has a chance to start. But we know that piece in the bullpen is really good. And as of right now, that’s where he’ll be.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 18, 2020 16:41:36 GMT -5
I better get the damn NESN feed tonight and all weekend
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Post by Kimmi on Sept 18, 2020 17:41:22 GMT -5
It's time for the Sox to stop being the Yankees' punching bag and win a stinking series against them for a change. We should be able to assault a guy like Montgomery. Even if we lose 9-8, I want the EE to struggle. We should be be able to score some runs off of him. Of course I want to win, but if we can't win, at least make it a close and fun game.
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Post by Kimmi on Sept 18, 2020 17:43:31 GMT -5
I think the last game of this series is going to be fun to watch cuz of the young kids on the mound and they both get their first taste of this silent rivalry but still looking over their shoulder at the Monster will be a first for them....
Montgomery and Happ have pitched well for the Bombers....
But no getting around it, the Yankee bats have woken up and they exposed the Blue Jays pitching injuries and lack of depth at all levels of pitching....
I don't expect to win this series however, I do not want to get swept by these assholes mainly cuz the likes of Dufus Boone, Voit, and Gardner make me angry as hell.
Make them earn it and do not get swept. I cannot stand Voit and Gardner. That is all.
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Post by Kimmi on Sept 18, 2020 17:45:35 GMT -5
Just an FYI Tropical Storm ( expected to be Hurricane) Teddy is swirling down south right now and is expected to turn north and is pointed to here in Nova Scotia ( just like last year) by Tuesday (late) as far as I know, no one else on east coast directly affected... but next week if I am not around....well ya know. There's a lot of action going on in the tropics right now.
Stay safe Jon.
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Post by Kimmi on Sept 18, 2020 17:47:20 GMT -5
I better get the damn NESN feed tonight and all weekend I always get the home team feed on Extra Innings. I've put up with the Yankees feed enough this season.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Sept 18, 2020 20:51:24 GMT -5
Arroyo is getting some production. For as long as he's been around, it's easy to forget that he is only 25.111.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 19, 2020 3:56:38 GMT -5
Red Sox 5, Yankees 6: Just the longest sigh imaginable
Hated that! By Matt_Collins@MattRyCollins Sep 19, 2020, 12:30am EDT
Even those who would like the Red Sox to lose as many games as possible down the stretch have to be furstrated by this one. Things started off very well for Boston, who was looking for their first win of the year against the Yankees. Martín Pérez cruised through six scoreless innings for what was probably his best performance of the year, taking opponent into account. The offense wasn’t great, but a three-run homer from Christian Arroyo contributed to a 4-0 lead that was brought into the seventh. Then, the bullpen bullpen’d. It all came to a head when Matt Barnes tried to protect a one-run lead in the ninth. He got two quick outs to start things off, but then left a hanger to Gary Sánchez, who blasted a solo shot to send the game to extras. Things went back and forth in extras for a few innings before the Yankees finally secured their win in the 12 innings. Just the worst.
Coming into this game, the Yankees were by far the hottest offense in all of baseball. They were finally healthy again, and they flexed on the Blue Jays by scoring double digit runs in all three games of a sweep. They were averaging about three homers a game for over a week. Frankly, they looked unstoppable.
Enter: Martín Pérez. The lefty has been Boston’s best pitcher this year, but this was going to be his biggest test, even bigger than his previous outing against New York. To say he came to play would be a tremendous understatement. Pérez looked better than he has in any other start this year, particularly with his two-seam fastball. The sinker was sitting 94 mph and he was locating perfectly, getting Yankee after Yankee to watch it go by for strike three.
The tone was set right away for Pérez, too, against the very intimidating top of New York’s lineup. He got a perfect inning against DJ LeMahieu, Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton including a pair of backwards K’s against the last two. The southpaw would follow that up with a strikeout of Luke Voit to start the second as well. Things got a bit tougher from there on back-to-back singles, but Pérez was also able to get the big ground ball when he needed it in this game. On this particular occasion, he got one to Christian Arroyo, who made a nice backhanded stab to start the 4-6-3 inning-ending double play.
The third was the point where it looked like Pérez might start to lose it, as he followed up a quick first out with some control issues. First, he hit Clint Frazier on the elbow with a pitch, then he issued a walk to put two on with only one out. Once again, though, he’d get the grounder he was looking for. This time it came off the bat of Judge, and it ended the inning. Pérez would come back strong for the fourth and fifth, tossing perfect innings in both frames, each with a pair of strikeouts.
In the sixth, Pérez let the first man reach for the first time in the game when Frazier smacked a leadoff single, but the defense picked up their pitcher. First, Arroyo made a great play going back into shallow left field for the first out, and then Xander Bogaerts followed it up with a tremendous stop going to his right to start the team’s third inning-ending double play of the evening.
So, the starter did his job, but the Red Sox offense wasn’t really getting too much done against Jordan Montgomery on the other side, at least early on. The Yankees tried to give the Red Sox an opportunity in the first when Montgomery made an error on a slow roller from Rafael Devers and Gio Urshela booted a ball from Xander Bogaerts (it was ruled a hit, but I disagreed with that scoring) to put two on with one out. Neither J.D. Martinez nor Christian Vázquez could come through, though.
They’d send only three to the plate in the second before getting another partially gifted chance in the third. This time, Alex Verdugo led things off with an infield single before Devers reached on an error when Gleyber Torres just straight-up whiffed on an easy toss into second base. Again, though, they would not be able to bring a run home. On top of that, Verdugo appeared tweak his hamstring running into second on the error and left the game after this inning.
The fourth would finally bring a little offense into this game. Vázquez got things started with a base hit, and a couple batters later Jackie Bradley Jr. had a base hit of his own. They’d pull off a double steal from there to put a pair in scoring position for Michael Chavis, but he struck out. That left everything up to Christian Arroyo, who came through in a big way. Montgomery served up a 2-0 changeup that stayed right down the middle of the zone, and Arroyo crushed it out to the back row of Monster Seats for a three-run shot.
In the fifth, the Red Sox would add to their lead. This time it was Devers starting things off with a leadoff walk, and Bogaerts would take his spot after a fielder’s choice. After moving up to second on a wild pitch, the Red Sox shortstop then easily stole third. He’d be standing there with two outs and Vázquez at the plate, and the latter poked a double out to left-center field, and just like that it was a 4-0 game.
That was still the score heading into the seventh, and Pérez was out of the game with Darwinzon Hernandez coming on. Things did not go very well. The good news is that Hernandez did have his velocity back to 2019 levels. The bad news is he loaded the bases while recording only two outs, leaving it up to Marcus Walden to take care of Gary Sánchez and hold this lead. It was a bizarre (to put it nicely) decision to use Walden here, and sure enough Sánchez cut the Red Sox lead in half with a ground-rule double out to the right field corner. Fortunately, the damage was limited to that as Frazier grounded out to end the inning.
After the Red Sox failed to get any runs back in the top of the eighth, Ryan Brasier came on for the bottom of the inning. He’s been pitching extremely well of late, but he got into some trouble here. Things got started with a one-out single from Aaron Judge, which was followed by a double from Giancarlo Stanton that was ripped into the right field corner. Judge came all the way around to score on that one, and suddenly it was a one-run game with the tying run in scoring position. Luke Voit came up next and ripped a line drive of his own, but fortunately Devers was able to snag this one behind the third base bag for the second out. That left things up to Gleyber Torres, and Brasier got him looking at a fastball away to end the inning with the lead still barely in hand.
It was still a one-run game heading into the ninth, and it was up to Matt Barnes to close things out. Things started out well enough as he got two quick outs to start the inning, but he still had to get through Sánchez. He did not get through Sánchez. The Yankees catcher got a hanging breaking ball and deposited it into the Monster Seats for a solo shot, and just like that we were all tied up. Barnes did escape without the tie being broken, but the damage was done.
The Red Sox got the winning run to second in the bottom of the ninth, but Martinez went down looking to end the inning, and we headed into extras. For the Red Sox, Weber was on the mound for the tenth, where innings start with a runner at second. He did get a ground out to start things off, but it also moved the runner up to third base with just one out. Weber followed that up with a huge strikeout of Judge, leaving it up to Mike Tauchman. Weber won that one, too, getting a soft liner over to Devers to preserve the tie.
Now, the Red Sox had a chance to walk things off with Martinez somewhat surprisingly staying in the game to run at second and Aroldis Chapman on the mound for New York. They got the first man on with a Vázquez walk to put two on with nobody out. Kevin Plawecki was up next and got a second life when Judge dropped an easy ball in foul territory, but he couldn’t take advantage, flying out to right field. With Jackie Bradley Jr. at the plate, Chapman threw one to the back stop, putting that go-ahead run at third. In fact, Chapman was asleep at the wheel and the runners were off on the pitch. If Martinez had been pinch run for, the replacement (Jonathan Araúz, most likely) probably wins the game. Instead, Chapman came back with a huge strikeout for the second out of the inning, leaving it up to Chavis. Chapman got another strikeout, and we headed to the eleventh.
Weber came back out for a second inning of work, and it took no time at all for Luke Voit to smack a base hit into left field, giving the Yankees their first lead of the night.
Now, it was up to the Red Sox to try and come back and at least tie it in the bottom of the inning. They got the start they needed as Chavis moved up to third base on a wild pitch two pitches into the inning. Arroyo then came through again, pushing a base hit through the middle to tie the game up at five. Tzu-Wei Lin then dropped a perfect bunt to get the runner to second, and as a bonus made it into first safely thanks to more bad defense from the Yankees. That put two on with nobody out and the heart of the Red Sox order coming up. It looked like Devers hit into a huge 4-6-3 double play, but replay showed he just barely beat the throw into first. They’d then walk Bogaerts after falling behind 2-0, loading the bases (and setting up the potential double play) for Martinez. Martinez instead struck out for the fourth time on the day, and Vázquez followed that up with a fly out, as the Red Sox squandered a golden opportunity and we headed to the 12th
Weber would come out for a third inning in the 12th, and once again he immediately gave up a base hit. This time, however, the runner from second stopped at third, and Weber came back with two huge strikeouts. He almost got out of the inning, but LeMahieu came through with a double out to right field to put the Yankees back up by one. That was all they’d get, and once again the Red Sox had a chance to answer in the bottom of the inning.
They couldn’t do it. They did get the runner to third with just one out, but a fly ball from Bradley wasn’t deep enough to score the run, and the game would end with a 6-5 score in favor of the Yankees.
The Red Sox and Yankees continue their series on Saturday. They’ll have Chris Mazza on the mound to take on J.A. Happ. First pitch is set for 7:30 PM ET.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 19, 2020 4:13:23 GMT -5
Sox unable to hold off rivals in 12 innings Arroyo, Pérez show poise before Yankees storm back
By Ian Browne @ianmbrowne 2:26 AM EDT
BOSTON -- It has now been one year and 12 days since the Red Sox have beaten the Yankees in MLB’s most storied rivalry.
Making that dreary fact more agonizing is that Boston was just an out away from reversing that misfortune on Friday night, only to have Gary Sánchez pummel a game-tying homer off Matt Barnes in the top of the ninth.
And in the 12th, it was DJ LeMahieu who at last put the Yankees ahead for good with an RBI double down the line in right to hand the Red Sox a 6-5 loss in a game that took four hours and 55 minutes.
• Box score
How did this night stack up among the most frustrating defeats for a team that is now 19-33 with eight games left?
“It was definitely one of them,” said Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke. “Actually played great defense. We made some outstanding plays throughout that game. Martín Pérez, outstanding job pitching. Actually we threw the ball well. We had plenty of opportunities to win that game offensively. So, tough one to lose.”
In particular, it was tough for J.D. Martinez, who continued his utterly frustrating season with an 0-for-6 night that included four strikeouts. Martinez slipped below the Mendoza Line at .199, and has just five homers and 22 RBIs.
“With a guy that’s been as consistent as he has over the years, to go through this little stretch is, I’m sure, pretty rough for him,” Roenicke said. “You keep thinking he’s going to come out of it, he has some good games, then he doesn’t. Tough night. One of the best hitters in the game and he’s going through this.”
The teams traded runs in the 11th, with the Sox tying it back up on Christian Arroyo’s RBI single through a drawn-in infield.
Martinez had a golden chance to end the game with one swing that inning. Yankees manager Aaron Boone walked Xander Bogaerts to load the bases with one out, but Martinez struck out.
• Verdugo exits with hamstring tightness
The defeat makes the Red Sox 0-11 against the Yankees since Sept. 7, 2019. That includes eight games this season, the first seven of which were played at Yankee Stadium. This is the first time Boston has lost 11 in a row to New York since 1952-53.
“It’s not a good feeling,” Pérez said. “But they played better than us. They’re pitching better than us. We don’t have any excuses. Sometimes you play hard and you don’t win the game, but that’s baseball. I think we played good tonight, and we couldn’t get the win.”
Fortunately for the Red Sox, it really isn’t about the wins and losses right now. They’ve already been eliminated from postseason contention.
It is more about the evaluations heading into next season. And certain things are crystallizing when it comes to the 2021 Red Sox. For example, Pérez and Arroyo are two players who seem primed to be part of the plans.
Backed by a tremendous effort from the mound by Pérez (6 innings, 3 H, 0 R, 7 K’s) and a big night at the plate from Arroyo (3-for-5, including a three-run homer), the Red Sox were in position to win this one until Barnes caught too much plate with an 0-1 curveball to Sánchez, who clubbed his 10th homer of the season.
Pérez (4-4, 3.88 ERA) has been Boston’s most consistent starter. In fact, he has been the only starter not to miss a turn in the rotation. The Red Sox hold a $6.25 million option on him for next season, which seems like a bargain.
“Great fastball, great location, mixed in the offspeed well, but that’s as good of a fastball as you can have, locating it -- inside most of the time, running it away when he needed to,” Roenicke said. “The cutter was really good. It was a big game for him that we really needed. That was pretty fun to watch him pitch.”
Arroyo -- a former first-round Draft pick of the Giants who has battled injuries and inconsistency throughout his career -- has really come on over the last week, and he is still a year away from being arbitration-eligible.
The position of second base is wide open for the Red Sox, who basically haven’t had the injured Dustin Pedroia for the past three seasons. Arroyo looks like he might be capable of sliding in.
Aside from crushing that three-run homer over everything in left at an exit velocity of 107 mph and a Statcast-projected distance of 418 feet, Arroyo also looked good on defense, starting a pretty double play off the bat of Gio Urshela in the second and turning one swiftly on a nifty feed from Bogaerts to erase Aaron Judge in the sixth.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 19, 2020 4:14:19 GMT -5
Verdugo (hamstring) removed as precaution
By Ian Browne @ianmbrowne 1:31 AM EDT
BOSTON -- Leadoff hitter Alex Verdugo, perhaps the bright spot of the season for the Red Sox, was removed from Friday night’s game at Fenway Park in the top of the fourth inning for precautionary reasons with left hamstring tightness.
"Tight hamstring," manager Ron Roenicke said after the Red Sox's 6-5 loss to the Yankees in 12 innings. "He could have gone back out and played. But I talked to the trainers. To put him out there when he has a tight hamstring, it’s kind of grabbing on him, it just didn’t make sense. If he ends up pulling it, then he’s probably done for the year. I didn’t want to take that chance."
After sliding into second base awkwardly in the bottom of the third, Verdugo grabbed at the hamstring. On a grounder to third by Xander Bogaerts, Verdugo was clearly limping from second base before he was forced out.
He then went into the clubhouse with a trainer and was replaced in right field by Tzu-Wei Lin to open the fourth.
Verdugo went 1-for-2 before departing to raise his average to .328. He has six homers and 14 RBIs and has been tremendous in the outfield.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 19, 2020 4:16:11 GMT -5
Darwinzon back from IL; Dalbec gets break
By Ian Browne @ianmbrowne September 18, 2020
In what has been mostly a lost season for Darwinzon Hernandez, who was sidelined with COVID-19 and then made just three appearances before going back on the injured list with a sprained SC joint, the electric lefty will get a chance to pitch over the Red Sox’s final nine games.
The 23-year-old Hernandez was activated for Friday’s opener of a three-game series against the Yankees. To make room for him on the roster, the Red Sox optioned righty Robinson Leyer to the alternate training site.
If things had gone differently for Hernandez this season, the Red Sox might have given him another look as a starter -- the role in which he performed through most of his Minor League career.
But the current thought is to keep him in the bullpen, where he was impressive at times in the second half of 2019.
“He may be able to go two innings here before we’re done,” said Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke. “And hopefully the strength is there, the command is there, and then I think it’s just important to get him back out and see that he’s healthy and going back into the offseason where he can build up and get strong again and get ready for next year.”
Hernandez’s role for 2021 and beyond could be impacted by roster construction and also how the big lefty develops.
“I don’t think that we’ve got to that point where we know,” Roenicke said. “I think we like him in the bullpen right now, and unfortunately with what happened to him, we weren’t able to get him into see what he looked like as a starter. But I do know that there’s a lot of people here that really like him in the bullpen, I think there’s some people also that think he has a chance to start. But we know he can be that piece in the bullpen, and as of now, that’s where he’ll be.”
Dalbec gets a day After a four-strikeout game Thursday that left him with 10 strikeouts in his last four games and 30 through 59 career plate appearances, rookie Bobby Dalbec was out of the lineup for Friday’s game against the Yankees.
“I’ve done it quite a bit in my career,” said Dalbec, the Red Sox's No. 3 prospect. “It used to bother me a lot more. Obviously right now it’s pretty frustrating the last few games, but it’s still been a fun, productive last week or so. Just trying to build off the good parts of it and just reset a little bit.”
Look for Dalbec to return to the lineup Saturday.
“Yeah, he’s going to be in the cage with [hitting coaches] Tim [Hyers] and Pete [Fatse], try to get back some things he was doing really well a couple weeks ago, not that we expect him to have to go on that kind of run again,” Roenicke said. “But it was really good for a while. It was really fun watching him. But making sure that we’re thinking about what’s best for him and his career and moving him forward. It’s a mental break day for him and to work on things.”
And what might some of those things be?
“A lot of it is pitches I’m swinging at. I’m letting some good pitches go and I’m swinging at pitches outside of the zone,” Dalbec said. “Once I kind of get back to myself and find my zone up here and stay committed to that and get on a roll and get some experience with doing all those things, I think I’ll be more consistent. But right now, it’s either really hot or really cold, and that’s the middle ground I’ve got to work on. Staying positive throughout the struggles is a big thing and just continuing to get better.”
From Sept. 5-10, Dalbec became the first Red Sox rookie to hit a homer in five straight games.
“It was awesome,” Dalbec said. “It feels really cool to be able to kind of leave my footprint on something like that so early in my career. So I just want to continue to get better and hopefully continue to produce.”
Sox get local kid for Pillar The Red Sox announced the completion of the Kevin Pillar trade with the Rockies from Aug. 31, and the compensation coming back has local ties.
Minor League righty Jacob Wallace, the pride of Methuen, Mass., is the player to be named. The 22-year-old had been ranked the Rockies’ No. 20 prospect by MLB Pipeline.
Wallace was a third-round pick by the Rockies in the 2019 Draft after a strong collegiate career for the University of Connecticut.
In his professional debut last season, Wallace made 22 relief appearances for Class A Short-Season Boise, notching a 1.29 ERA in 21 innings.
Papi recently had COVID-19 Former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz joined the NESN broadcast for an inning during Friday night’s game against the Yankees and revealed that he recently had COVID-19.
“Yeah, man, I just got it,” said Ortiz. “I just had my last test yesterday. Thanks to God, I tested negative. I had it asymptomatic, [so] mine wasn’t that bad. My brother had it really bad. He was in the hospital for a week, and he ended up losing, like, 25 pounds. This is no joke. You don’t realize how crazy this is until it hits home.
“I learned so much about this COVID-19 thing while I was going through the process. It’s something. It’s an experience, to be honest with you.”
As for the Red Sox, who entered Friday 19-32 this season, Ortiz has confidence his former team will rebound swiftly.
“Next year is going to be a building year, and I’m 100 percent sure we’re going to have a better team,” Ortiz said.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 19, 2020 4:26:23 GMT -5
Jason Mastrodonato @jmastrodonato · 5h Yankees intentionally walked Xander Bogaerts to load the bases with one out in the 11th and get to JD Martinez. Let that sink in. (Martinez struck out.)
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Sept 19, 2020 4:27:00 GMT -5
Jon Couture @joncouture · 4h Also, Matt Barnes owes the several hundred of us who stuck this out 90 minutes each.
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