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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 4, 2021 16:35:28 GMT -5
folks wanting him up should be entered into concussion protocol
Alex Speier @alexspeier · 1h Cora on Casas at the Olympics: ‘We know the type of player he is…This is part of player development… He’s an important piece of our future.’ But Cora says Casas is not a consideration for this year based on where he is in his player development.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 4, 2021 16:38:13 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 28m This from Jerry Remy:
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Aug 4, 2021 21:08:48 GMT -5
t.co/DDmySHfKKxThat's a clip of Schoop's HR. But the important part is catching a glimpse of the wall. A lot of huge names up there from the Tigers' past. I had forgotten about Willie Horton. No HOFer, but one dangerous hitter.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Aug 4, 2021 21:17:40 GMT -5
Alex Speier @alexspeier · 7h Richards only gets charged with 3 earned runs in four innings, but ... Red Sox rotation now has an 8.47 ERA over its last eight games while averaging 4.25 innings per outing. Sox starters have pitched fewer than five innings in 7 of the team's last 8 games. The fact that our starters are not going very deep in games is an issue. That said, our pitching staff, as a whole, has still been keeping the team in most games. The starting staff is what it is. IMO, it's the offense that has been letting the team down more so than the pitching. Yup, once again, the Boston writers miss the story. Amazing that almost all of them ran similar stories about the pitching. And none of them thought to mention the hitting. Just for the record, they have scored 18 runs in 7 games. That's roughly 2.572 per game. The pitching has given up 41 runs in the same 7 games. That's weak, at roughly 5.857 per game, but the pitching is much closer to hitting their seasonal numbers than the hitters. But not a single writer noticed.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Aug 4, 2021 21:22:14 GMT -5
folks wanting him up should be entered into concussion protocolAlex Speier @alexspeier · 1h Cora on Casas at the Olympics: ‘We know the type of player he is…This is part of player development… He’s an important piece of our future.’ But Cora says Casas is not a consideration for this year based on where he is in his player development. It's not just the RS fans. So many fans are clueless about how difficult this is.
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Post by scrappyunderdog on Aug 4, 2021 22:06:56 GMT -5
Nice game by ERod. If he can now do this a little more consistently.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 5, 2021 2:26:57 GMT -5
Red Sox rely on long balls to snap skid Martinez solo shot ends 2-for-25 slump; Hernández and Duran go back to back 2:42 AM ADT Dawn Klemish
Dawn Klemish @sportsgal25
DETROIT -- It’s no secret that Boston has fallen victim to some bad breaks on offense lately. Potential extra-base knocks curving just foul, barreled balls going directly at defenders -- even hard hits away from defenders who make astounding plays anyway -- take your pick, the Red Sox have sloughed through it and come back for more.
“Ever since we went to Oakland,” manager Alex Cora said during Wednesday’s pregame Zoom session with media, “we haven’t been able to be who we are.
“There’s a combination of a lot of stuff, but at the same time, we know we can hit, we know we have guys who are capable of [hitting], and right now, we’ve just got to find a way to grind through it until we find it again.”
To Boston’s credit, through every one of its five consecutive losses, the Red Sox kept swinging. The tide finally turned on Wednesday, when Boston snapped its slump with a 4-1 win against the Tigers at Comerica Park.
Cora has not been shy in sharing that his team needs to pick it up at the plate. The starting pitching has been neither great nor terrible, but without the runs to back the arms, the Red Sox were destined to fall again and again. In Detroit, though, everything played out just the way Boston had scripted.
J.D. Martinez struck first, clubbing a leadoff home run in the second inning to get the Red Sox on the board. Martinez entered the series 2-for-25 in his previous six games. The long ball was Martinez’s first at Comerica Park since the Tigers traded him to the D-backs on July 18, 2017.
Alex Verdugo -- who had smashed the ball anywhere a glove was waiting lately and was visibly frustrated about it -- finally got his break, as well, driving a ball to the wall and just out of right fielder Robbie Grossman's reach for a double in the sixth inning. While Verdugo didn’t go deep, no one wore a bigger smile than the 25-year-old who’d hit just .167 across his past seven games.
Verdugo added a hard-hit single against the shift in the eighth inning for his first multihit game since July 26.
“We didn’t do much [1-for-11 in the game] with men in scoring position,” Cora said. “But at least it was the beginning of something that we’ve been talking about. The goal for tomorrow is to do the same thing. Come out, grind, put [together] good at-bats and keep getting better.”
A three-run fifth inning was powered by back-to-back homers from Enrique Hernández and Jarren Duran. Hernández’s two-run shot marked his 15th of the season; Duran’s was career homer No. 2, and Hernández added a triple in the seventh to punctuate Boston’s 10th hit of the night.
Of course, all of that would have been meaningless without a strong outing from Eduardo Rodriguez, who struck out 10 for the eighth time in his career en route to a scoreless five-inning, two-hit outing. After a migraine-shortened outing at New York and a dismal affair against Toronto during which he lacked fastball command, Wednesday was also Rodriguez’s turn to be rewarded for sticking with it.
“This was a huge win that we needed,” Rodriguez said. “That we won the game, and that I was able to go five innings after the last two starts that I had.”
In the immediate glow of the decisive win in Detroit, it’s hard to remember exactly why anyone thought things were really that bad for Boston to begin with. Just five teams in baseball -- the Rays, Astros, Brewers, Giants and Dodgers -- have more wins than Boston (64-45).
Sure, Boston’s victory over the Tigers was just one step back in the right direction -- and the Red Sox still trail the American League East-leading Rays by one game -- but perhaps it also served as a reminder of how quickly things can turn around during a long season.
"We've been saying all year, we're a good team,” Hernández said. “We're going to go through rough stretches, we're going to go through good stretches; that's what happens when you play 162 games.
“Now, it's a matter of staying the course and winning ballgames."
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 5, 2021 2:29:28 GMT -5
Injuries & Moves: Schwarber begins running August 4th, 2021
ROSTER MOVES
Aug. 4: RHP Matt Barnes activated from COVID IL Barnes was not feeling well prior to the Aug. 3 series opener in Detroit, so the team exercised caution and placed him on the IL as he awaited results from his COVID-19 testing. The righty's test came back negative, and manager Alex Cora said Barnes felt much better on Aug. 4, so he was made available to play during the middle game of the three-game set.
Aug. 4: IF Jonathan Araúz to Triple-A Worcester Araúz was sent down to open a spot to activate Matt Barnes. The switch-hitter has batted .286 (4-for-14) in seven games across two stints with the Red Sox this season.
OF/1B Kyle Schwarber (right hamstring strain) Expected return: Second week in August One day after taking grounders, but avoiding sprinting, Schwarber took grounders at first base and ran the bases prior to the Aug. 4 game in Detroit.
"He ran the bases well and he took ground balls. We'll see how he feels afterward and we'll keep building up," manager Alex Cora said. "This was part of the running progression, which is important for him, and as soon as we can pass that hurdle, then we'll decide what we're going to do with him." (Last updated: Aug. 4)
LHP Darwinzon Hernandez (right oblique strain) Expected return: Mid-August What was once believed to be a minor oblique injury has recently increased in severity, leading the Red Sox to order an MRI for Aug. 4. The test revealed a strain in the area, a definite concern after the team hoped he would miss only a few games.
"We don't know, as far as rehab and all that stuff, how long it's going to take, but it's actually worse than what we found early on," Red Sox manager Alex Cora said. "So now, he needs to get some rest, get treatment and we'll go from there." (Last updated: Aug. 4)
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 5, 2021 2:49:45 GMT -5
Eduardo Rodriguez, long ball critical as Red Sox snap five-game skid in Detroit By Julian McWilliams Globe Staff,Updated August 4, 2021, 10:32 p.m.
The Red Sox needed everything to come together Wednesday evening against the Tigers.
Their offense was partially responsible for the team dropping five straight contests, batting just .230 with 52 strikeouts and a .616 OPS. The starters played a part, too, with a 9.70 ERA and only one start of at least five innings.
But when the dust settled in the Motor City, the Sox erased the demons, at least for a moment, with a 4-1 win.
It came via a 10-strikeout performance from Eduardo Rodriguez (8-6), a season high for the lefthander and part of a season-high 18 by the Red Sox staff. It also came via the home run, as four registered all the game’s scoring.
“It was big for us,” Rodriguez said. “I mean, just after these five losses, I feel like this is a huge win that we needed. Now it’s time to go out there and try to win every series.”
The Red Sox can win this series Thursday, when Martín Pérez (7-7, 4.56) goes for his first victory in exactly a month, opposed by Detroit lefty Tarik Skubal (6-10, 4.53).
J.D. Martinez got things going in the second inning, his solo shot to right-center his first homer since July 21. With two outs in the fifth, Kiké Hernández stung his 15th of the year, a two-run shot to left to make it 3-0. Jarren Duran made it back-to-back with a solo shot to left, building off a two-hit night Tuesday.
“We’ve been talking about chasing pitches but at the same time, when we get our pitches, we don’t want to miss them,” manager Alex Cora said. “When we swing in the strike zone, we have to do damage. And tonight we did.”
Hernández’s hit was their lone one with runners in scoring position, Boston going 1 for 11 and stranding seven, but it was enough.
Rodriguez had been scuffling, his ERA back up to 5.60 and his last start against the Blue Jays arguably his worst of the season. He lasted just 3⅓ innings, and relinquished six earned runs backed by seven hits and four walks.
In the first, he issued a one-out walk to Jonathan Schoop and allowed a single to Robbie Grossman, putting runners at first and third. It appeared as if Rodriguez, who had been cut down by the one bad inning (or two) previously, was about to fall victim in his first frame. But the lefthander responded with back-to-back strikeouts against Miguel Cabrera and Eric Haase.
The Tigers had no chance at Rodriguez’s heater all night — he threw it on 54 of his 99 pitches, and got 12 swings and misses and 13 called strikes. He was most effective at the top of the zone, a plan both he and catcher Christian Vázquez felt they could exploit as the Detroit offense gained more definition.
“I feel like the hitters always show you the way you’re going to approach the game,” Rodriguez said. “You have the game plan, you have the scouting report. You do everything, but I feel like most of the time, you do what the hitters tell you to do and today was attacking at the top of the strike zone.”
Rodriguez did struggle to locate at times, and that might have haunted him against a better team. He matched his season-worst four walks from Thursday, and needed 99 pitches to last five innings despite allowing just two hits.
Yet he wiggled his way out of innings. With Hirokazu Sawamura warming in the fifth, Rodriguez issued a leadoff walk to Zack Short, then another after back-to-back strikeouts. But Rodriguez found his way out of the jam, striking out Grossman to end the threat.
Detroit got on the board in the seventh, Schoop blasting a long solo shot off Josh Taylor, but couldn’t get the critical hit it needed to tighten things late.
The Tigers put two on in the sixth against Sawamura with one out, but he fanned both Grayson Greiner and Short looking. Cora went to Adam Ottavino after Taylor followed the two-out Schoop homer with a walk, but Cabrera flew out on a first-pitch slider. Jeimer Candelario cracked a one-out double against Ottavino in the eighth, but he recovered to strike out Willi and Harold Castro.
Boston pitchers had a season high in strikeouts even before Matt Barnes, reactivated from the COVID-19 injured list before the game, fanned two in the ninth for his 24th save. The 18 easily topped the 15 Red Sox pitchers totaled four times earlier this season. Detroit, meanwhile, is responsible for two of the four times this season a team has fanned 18 times in a nine-inning game.
“Eddie got through five strong innings and put us in a good position to win a ballgame,” Barnes said.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 5, 2021 3:00:06 GMT -5
Jen McCaffrey @jcmccaffrey · 7h Two hits and 10 strikeouts over five scoreless is why Rodriguez's season has been so frustrating, you know what he's capable of, but he hasn't been able to put these kind of performances together consistently this year
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 5, 2021 3:04:28 GMT -5
Pete Abraham @peteabe · 7h This is the first time the Sox have led by four runs since July 23.
First time the Sox have had 18 strikeouts in a nine-inning game since 5-25-17 when Drew Pomeranz, Heath Hembree, Robby Scott, Matt Barnes and Craig Kimbrel punched out 20 Rangers.
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 5, 2021 3:07:08 GMT -5
Alex Speier @alexspeier · 6h Outside of the Yankees start that he left with a migraine and the start immediately thereafter when he looked like…someone who’d recently had a migraine, Rodriguez in his 5 most recent non-migraine-impacted starts: 1.95 ERA, 37 Ks, 8 BBs, .186 average against in 27 2/3 IP
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 5, 2021 3:11:15 GMT -5
Lou Merloni @loumerloni · 5h Would have loved to get 6 from ERod but he was very good in his 5ip. Biggest takeaway? His change up. Sat at 80-82 and got swings and misses instead of 86-87 in the pas that gets contact. 80-82 is where he should be to get the swing and miss
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 5, 2021 3:13:12 GMT -5
Alex Cora dedicates Boston Red Sox win to Jerry Remy, who will undergo cancer treatment: ‘We’re going to fight with him’ Updated 12:53 AM; Today 12:53 AM
By Chris Cotillo | ccotillo@MassLive.com
DETROIT -- Red Sox manager Alex Cora dedicated Wednesday’s win to NESN announcer Jerry Remy, who announced earlier in the day that he was stepping away from the broadcast booth “for the time being” to undergo treatment for lung cancer. Cora said he texted with Remy before the Sox snapped their five-game losing streak with a 4-1 win over the Tigers at Comerica Park.
“First thing’s first,” Cora said. “I texted with Jerry before the game. He said, ‘Get ‘em going, let’s go.’ That was for him. We’re going to miss him. We’re going to be fighting with him. I know (the media) will, too. My prayers and thoughts -- not only from me, but from the whole organization -- are with the RemDawg. I know he’s a fighter and he’s going to be fine. We’re going to fight with him.”
Remy, 68, has overcome multiple relapses after first being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2008. He took medical leaves in 2013, 2017 and 2018 for treatment.
Cora pledged the organization’s support for Remy as he begins his next battle.
“We’re going to be there for him,” Cora said. “He has always been there for us. Not only for the players, for (the media), the whole fan base and the organization. This time, we’re going to stay together and we’re going to be fighting with him.”
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Post by CP_Jon_GoSox on Aug 5, 2021 3:28:39 GMT -5
Red Sox @ Tigers Thursday, August 5th 2021 1pm @ Comerica
Perez 7-7/4.56
Martin Perez surrendered six runs in four innings Friday in a loss to the Rays. Perez has given up 34 runs -- 30 earned -- in 40 1/3 innings over the course of his last 10 starts.
Skubal 6-10/4.53
Tarik Skubal struggled in Friday night's loss to the Orioles, giving up four runs on seven hits over 5 2/3 innings. The left-hander walked one and struck out four on the night. As has been the case with him for most of the season, Skubal struggled to keep the ball in the yard in this one -- giving up a pair of solo homers to Pedro Severino and another to Ryan Mountcastle. He'll carry a 4.53 ERA and 1.32 WHIP into Thursday's start against the Red Sox where it's believed the Tigers will begin to limit his innings.
Martin Perez, Red Sox try to take series against Tigers According to STATS
The long ball helped the Boston Red Sox end their longest losing streak of the season on Wednesday.
They'll try to carry that momentum into Thursday's matinee at Detroit.
Boston hit three homers in a 4-1 victory to vaporize its five-game slide. Enrique Hernandez, J.D. Martinez and Jarren Duran victimized Tigers starter Casey Mize.
"It's good to get some runs on the board and get the win," Hernandez said in a postgame TV interview. "Everybody goes through a rough stretch, and it's about minimizing those stretches. Hopefully, that's it for us."
The series finale will feature a pair of left-handed starters.
Boston's Martin Perez (7-7, 4.56 ERA) is coming off one of his worst performances of the season. He allowed six runs, including three home runs, in four innings at Tampa Bay on Friday.
Perez has surrendered seven homers over his last four starts.
He faced the Tigers in Boston on May 5th, giving up two earned runs in 5 2/3 innings. Perez is 2-4 with a 6.33 ERA in nine career appearances against Detroit.
Detroit's Tarik Skubal (6-10, 4.53 ERA) has been victimized repeatedly by the long ball, particularly in his last two starts.
The rookie surrendered three to Kansas City on July 25, then gave up three more to Baltimore on Friday. Skubal was tagged with losses in both games.
"I just think if I throw pitches where I'm supposed to throw them, they're not home runs," Skubal said. "If they are, then you tip your cap. But the fastball that misses in the middle of the plate, it doesn't matter if they're aggressive or not, they're probably not going to miss them."
The Tigers missed on a whole bunch of offerings from Boston's pitching staff on Wednesday. They struck out 18 times while going 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position.
"We were in-between pitches a lot tonight," manager AJ Hinch said. "It looked like if we sat soft, we got beat by the fastball. If we were trying to hunt the fastball, and they did anything to move the ball around, we had a hard time adjusting. ... Anything we had going, the at-bat ended in a strikeout."
Boston starter Eduardo Rodriguez recorded 10 of those strikeouts and every reliever who followed whiffed two batters.
"I think these guys, they don't have to go seven (innings)," manager Alex Cora said of his starting staff. "They've just got to give us a chance to win ballgames."
Rodriguez was thrilled to be the stopper as Boston continues its quest to regain first place in the American League East.
"After this streak that we had, I feel like this is a huge win that we needed," he said.
Miguel Cabrera's quest for his 500th home run will continue on Thursday and into the weekend at Cleveland. The Tigers slugger hit his 498th homer in the series opener on Tuesday. He went 1-for-4 on Wednesday while playing first base.
He'll be the designated hitter on Thursday, according to Hinch. He'll also play the first two games of the series in Cleveland and likely sit on Sunday.
--Field Level Media
Red Sox at Tigers Thursday, at 1:10 PM EST Clear According to Forecast.io, it's expected to be 81° F with a 0% chance of precipitation and 5 MPH wind blowing in in Detroit at 1:10 PM EST. Hourly Forecasts: Weather.com Forecast.io
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