He was much better this time.
For most Major League Baseball players and fans losing hurts, but losing to the Red Sox hurts much worse.
Chris Sale was at his brilliant best as the Boston Red Sox edged at the Tampa Bay Rays, while Kris Bryant went long for the Chicago Cubs. "I'll never forget that day", Wright said.
In his latest gem, Sale dominated the Tampa Bay Rays for seven innings Saturday at Fenway Park.
Ramirez pulled up limping after rounding second base on Mitch Moreland's go-ahead, two-run single. Craig Kimbrel, pitching for the third straight day, notched his third straight save, and 25th straight dating back to last season. Marco Hernandez sent a groundball to Tim Beckham at short and he flipped it to Miller at second for what should have been the inning ending play.
Knuckleballer Steven Wright pitches for the Red Sox against Tampa Bay lefty Blake Snell. The Red Sox won 4-3.
Tampa Bay did manage to come away with one on right fielder Steven Souza Jr.'s run-scoring single to left. On April 9 in Detroit, for example, he gave up one run on one hit and two walks and needed to rely on every last ounce of his power fastball to strike out the side and nail down a 7-5 win.
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Odorizzi, who grabbed his groin/hamstring area, winced after throwing a warmup pitch, which brought Rays manager Kevin Cash and training personnel out of the dugout. "I don't see us slacking off any, I think our bullpen is going to be really good and if we're going to win games, our bullpen is going to have a lot to do with that".
Some of the Rays were playful in their clubhouse early in the morning, with Morrison joking to teammates about the starting time: "11 o'clock".
The inexpicable error cost the Rays extensively, as the Red Sox went on to score three runs that inning, and take a 4-2 lead.
Hanley Ramirez's RBI single in the bottom half cut the lead in half. While there are a number of games left, it still stinks to be the team that is fighting all season to get back in the playoff race. LHP Eduardo Rodriguez was placed on paternity leave after his wife, Catherine, gave birth to a boy Sunday. But Toronto's starters are now ranked 28th in that same category and it's one of just three rotations with a negative WAR.
NOTES: Boston manager John Farrell earned his 500th career victory (346 with Red Sox) and moved passed Eddie Kasko for sole possession of eighth place on the team's all-time managerial wins list.
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Ramirez was on the field signing autographs for a while about 30 minutes before the first pitch. Before that, their worst start was 2-8 to open the 1978 season, which was their second year of Major League existence. Sunday is the third game of the series and the four-game set will conclude on Monday. RHP Ben Taylor was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket.
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