July 24, 2012

G98: Red Sox 2, Rangers 1

Red Sox - 000 100 001 - 2  6  2
Rangers - 000 001 000 - 1  5  0
Mike Aviles lined a single over shortstop with two outs in the ninth inning, scoring Daniel Nava and snapping a 1-1 tie. (Aviles had ended the second inning with the bases loaded and had stranded a man at second in the fourth.)

Nava had started the rally with a two-out walk. Pinch-hitter Jarrod Saltalamacchia also walked, setting the stage for Aviles. The win ended Boston's four-game losing streak.

Buchholz (7-4-1-3-1, 105) turned in another strong outing. Vicente Padilla wiggled out of a first-and-third jam of his own making - a two-base throwing error on an ill-advised pickoff attempt - in the eighth. Alfredo Aceves set the Rangers down in the ninth (allowing only a two-out walk) on eight pitches for the save.

Boston scored in the fourth when Cody Ross walked and scored on Kelly Shoppach's two-out double to right that David Murphy misplayed.
Example
Clay Buchholz / Martin Perez
Ellsbury, CF
Ciriaco, DH
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Ross, RF
Middlebrooks, 3B
Crawford, LF
Shoppach, C
Aviles, SS
The Red Sox traded Brent Lillibridge to Cleveland for 26-year-old minor league right-hander Jose De La Torre (who has been assigned to Pawtucket).

1 comment:

9casey said...

On the postgame Wake said the Padilla error was something he thought Agon told him to do.... Talking with the media after the game Agon said it was a play he called

The funny part about it is when Wake said it Eck was besides himself said no way Agon would call that....