It's not clear how much time he'll miss, but even after all their illnesses run their course, the Red Sox may not be at full strength for a while. "This was a classic pitcher's duel that they hooked into".
The Red Sox (2-2), who lost the first two contests of the four-game series, will still be missing designated hitter Hanley Ramirez and shortstop Xander Bogaerts. Sale followed by walking Kinsler - his first free pass of the day - and then gave up an RBI single to Nicholas Castellanos. "Boston's a great team, with or without the people that are sick. It feels good. We faced very good pitching this series, so it feels good".
Sale retired the first two batters of the bottom of the eighth, including his 10th strikeout, before allowing Austin Romine's second double of the day.
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Sale continued to cruise through the the next two innings, but in the sixth he would give up his first run in a Red Sox uniform.
He got run support from Jose Iglesias and James McCann, who hit solo home runs.
Sandoval went down swinging three pitches later, Verlander got out of the inning unharmed and there were no further spats with Bellino.
"There'll be a time in this season when you look to go to (closer Craig) Kimbrel for four outs", Farrell said, "but not in Game 3". However, Greene buckled down and painted the black with a low inside fastball to catch Holt looking and end the threat. "Didn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out". Kinsler was the recipient of an unintentional intentional walk.
DIAMONDBACKS 3, INDIANS 2: In Phoenix, Patrick Corbin threw six scoreless innings, Chris Owings homered and had three hits and the Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-game sweep. (Martinez) is not here; Upton was out.
"His flight got cancelled last night", Detroit manager Brad Ausmus said before the game.
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Verlander was done after seven with the game knotted, 1-1. Sale was charged with the loss after giving up two runs on five hits and striking out 10 in seven-and-two-thirds innings. "The second, third and fourth, not so easy. I wish I would have been able to get it done today".
Verlander's battle level was on overdrive. Farrell insisted Sale was pitching around him.
Zimmermann allowed a sacrifice fly by Jackie Bradley Jr.in the second, and the Red Sox loaded the bases with one out in the third. Posey will be re-evaluated Tuesday but manager Bruce Bochy said after the game there is no cause for alarm. "That's on your mind". He gets a ball off Brock (Holt's) glove, from Romine once again, for the double. The frame was started by a strong double from Mitch Moreland, who has been on fire of late. Pablo Sandoval, who has vexed Verlander in the past (2012 World Series), was next.
Verlander said he and Bellino talked later. Bellino took a step toward the mound and yelled something back.
"The bullpen is in flux right now", Verlander said. But I just felt like we had to. "When I looked at it (later), it was 50-50". But as a competitor, you are like, 'OK, I made a pitch. He had the command of it to put it in the strike zone. He was dealing, but the Red Sox couldn't give him more than one run of support. He has already driven in four runs on the young season. "This is kind of one of those things, when you're going through something that's that hard, it's nearly nice to get back to a normal schedule as much as you can". "Your arm just feels waterlogged - that's the best way to describe it".
If you look really closely, you can nearly see the roster becoming whole again, too.
"If I didn't, I'd be honest", he said. "But I've never said that yet". He hasn't pitched that much.
It for a bit like the one run they managed would be enough, however.
"It was literally, do whatever you have to do to keep them from scoring another run".
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