TNK - RED SOX FRANCHISE
Game #59 of the Season
Boston Red Sox (35-23) @ Baltimore Orioles
Pitching Matchup - Eduardo Rodriguez vs Miguel Gonzalez
GAME NOTES:
* Miguel Gonzalez and Eduardo Rodriguez had a good pitchers duel going as the game was tied 1-1 through 6 innings. The Orioles took the lead when Steven Pearce fell behind 0-2 in the count leading off the bottom of the 7th and Rodriguez tried to put him away on a high fastball and just didn't get it up enough as it was at the very top of the zone and Pearce crushed a solo HR to give Baltimore a 2-1 lead. Brad Brach pitched a around a lead off single by Holt in the top of the 8th to keep it a 2-1 game. Dustin Pedroia made a terrible throwing error on a routine grounder in the bottom of the 8th that resulted in the Orioles adding a pair of insurance runs to push their lead to 4-1 heading into the 9th inning. The Red Sox got back to back singles from Bogaerts and Betts off Orioles closer Zach Britton to bring the tying run to the plate with 1 out in the top of the 9th. Rusney Castillo would get the call to pinch hit for Swihart and with the count 1 & 1, Britton tried to blow a fastball by him and Castillo was sitting fastball and crushed a game tying 3-run HR to CF just over the glove of Adam Jones who made a leaping attempt at the wall as the Red Sox tie the game up at 4-4. The Orioles would end up winning it when Chris Davis crushed a knuckle ball from Steven Wright for a walk off solo HR in the bottom of the 12th for a dramatic walk off victory.
* The Orioles win on a walk off HR in 12 innings to take the opener of this 3 game series and pull with in 4.5 games of the Red Sox for 1st place in the AL East.
* Eduardo Rodriguez turned in another strong performance as he pitched 6.1 innings allowing 2 runs on 7 hits including a major mistake pitch that resulted in a HR to give the Orioles a 2-1 lead in the 7th inning. Rodriguez struck out 4 and walked 3 in the outing and now has a 2.21 ERA through his first 3 starts
* Miguel Gonzalez turned in a strong performance for Baltimore allowing 1 run in 7 innins of work on the mound
* Rusney Castillo clubbed a dramatic pinch hit 3-run HR to tie the game in the 9th inning off Orioles closer Zach Britton
* Mookie Betts extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a single in the 9th inning.
* Xander Bogaerts and David Ortiz each had 3 hits for Boston
* The teams will play the second game of this series tomorrow with Boston sending Rick Porcello to the mound against Wei-Yin Chen for Baltimore
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link href="http://dynasties.operationsports.com/css/osdyn.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td align="center" colspan="14">Red Sox at Orioles | </td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="37%">Jun 9, 2015</td><td align="right" width="4%">1</td><td align="right" width="4%">2</td><td align="right" width="4%">3</td><td align="right" width="4%">4</td><td align="right" width="4%">5</td><td align="right" width="4%">6</td><td align="right" width="4%">7</td><td align="right" width="4%">8</td><td align="right" width="4%">9</td><td align="center" width="15%">Extras</td><td align="right" width="4%">R</td><td align="right" width="4%">H</td><td align="right" width="4%">E</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Boston (35-24)</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="center">0 0 0 </td><td align="right" class="active">4</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">1</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Baltimore (30-27)</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="center">0 0 1</td><td align="right" class="active">5</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" colspan="14"><b>W:</b> Brian Matusz (4-2) <b>L:</b> Steven Wright (2-3)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead"><td colspan="5">Scoring Summary</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td colspan="3" width="84%">SCORING DETAILS</td><td align="right" width="8%">BOS</td><td align="right" width="8%">BAL</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">1</td><td width="70%">Mike Napoli singled to LF (Pedroia scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">0</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BAL</td><td align="center" width="7%">4</td><td width="70%">Delmon Young doubled to CF (Weiters scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BAL</td><td align="center" width="7%">7</td><td width="70%">Steven Pearce solo HR to LF</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">2</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BAL</td><td align="center" width="7%">8</td><td width="70%">Jimmy Paredes doubled to CF (Young scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">3</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BAL</td><td align="center" width="7%">8</td><td width="70%">Steven Pearce singled to CF (Paredes scores)</td><td align="right" width="8%">1</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BOS</td><td align="center" width="7%">9</td><td width="70%">Rusney Castillo 3-run HR to CF (Bogaerts & Betts score)</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td align="center" width="7%">BAL</td><td align="center" width="7%">12</td><td width="70%">Chris Davis solo HR to RF</td><td align="right" width="8%">4</td><td align="right" width="8%">5</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#ee1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Pedroia, 2B</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.271</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Holt, RF</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.236</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Ortiz, DH</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.273</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td style="text-indent:20px;">De Aza (PR-DH)</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.338</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Ramirez, LF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.244</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Napoli, 1B</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.224</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Sandoval, 3B</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.281</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Bogaerts, SS</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.231</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Betts, CF</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.258</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Swihart, C</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.273</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td style="text-indent:20px;">Castillo (PH)</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">.235</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td style="text-indent:20px;">Leon, C</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.192</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Ortiz (18)<br /><b>HR:</b> Castillo (2)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Castillo 3 (9), Napoli (12)<br /><b>GIDP:</b> Pedroia, Sandoval</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>FIELDING:</u></b><br /><b>E:</b> Pedroia (2)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#231f20" colspan="9"><span style="color:#F47D31">Baltimore Orioles</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">HITTERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">AB</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">AVG</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Machado, 3B</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.267</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Reimold, LF</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.500</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Jones, CF</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.236</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Davis, 1B</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">.255</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Wieters, C</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.107</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Young, RF</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.282</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Paredes, DH</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.261</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Hardy, SS</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.258</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Pearce, 2B</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">.286</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BATTING:</u></b><br /><b>2B:</b> Young (6), Reimold (1), Paredes (5)<br /><b>HR:</b> Pearce (6), Davis (5)<br /><b>RBI:</b> Pearce 2 (15), Paredes (15), Davis (22), Young (25)</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>BASERUNNING:</u></b><br /><b>SB:</b> Reimold (1)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#ee1422" colspan="9"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">Boston Red Sox</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Eduardo Rodriguez</td><td align="right">6.1</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">2.21</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Junichi Tazawa</td><td align="right">1.2</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">2.31</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Craig Breslow </td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">.4.22</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Steven Wright (L, 2-3)</td><td align="right">2.1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">4.45</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">11.1</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Rodriguez - 99 Pitches (66% strikes)</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#231f20" colspan="9"><span style="color:#F47D31">Baltimore Orioles</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="41%">PITCHERS</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="7%">H</td><td align="right" width="7%">R</td><td align="right" width="7%">ER</td><td align="right" width="7%">BB</td><td align="right" width="7%">SO</td><td align="right" width="7%">HR</td><td align="right" width="10%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Miguel Gonzalez</td><td align="right">7.0</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">3.86</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Brad Brach</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">3.42</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Zach Britton (BS, 1)</td><td align="right">0.1</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right" class="active">3.57</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Darren O'Day</td><td align="right">2.2</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">0.79</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Brian Matusz (W, 4-2)</td><td align="right">1.0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right" class="active">7.20</td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td>TEAM TOTALS</td><td align="right">12.0</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td colspan="9"><b><u>PITCHING:</u></b><br /><b>Pitches-Strikes:</b> Gonzalez - 109 Pitches (62% Strikes)</td></tr></table></body></html>
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