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THE BEST RED SOX TEAM EVAH! ...
The Sox waste a great game by Mookie Betts
and lose to the Orioles
May 18,
2018 ... The Orioles beat the Red
Sox 7-4, ending Baltimore’s 13-game road
losing streak and finally picking up a win for beleaguered starter Alex
Cobb.
Jonathan Schoop homered, Manny
Machado went 3 for 5 with three RBIs and Adam
Jones had two hits and drove in two for the Orioles,
who won on the road for the first time since April 8th and avoided breaking the
franchise record for road woes.
Cobb (1-5) got his first win as a member of the Orioles, holding the Sox to
three runs and 10 hits over 6 1/3 innings.
Brad Brach pitched
a scoreless ninth for his sixth save.
Mookie Betts doubled twice and hit his 14th homer for the Sox, who lost to
Baltimore for the first time in the five meetings so far this season. Betts had
an RBI double in the fifth, but Cobb was able to minimize the damage and hold
The Sox to two runs in the inning by getting Hanley Ramirez to ground into a
double play with two runners on base.
Drew Pomeranz (1-2) lasted only four innings for the Sox, getting pulled
after the Orioles scored four in the fourth to take a 5-1 lead. Pomeranz allowed
seven hits and walked three as Baltimore scored five off of him. He struck out a
season-low two.
Pomeranz escaped the first trailing 1-0 after loading the bases with one
out. He survived the second and third, but couldn’t get himself out of a mess in
the fourth after Davis led off with a double and Danny
Valencia followed with a single. Pomeranz got the next
two batters, but walked Trey
Mancini to load the
bases for Jones, who delivered a two-run single to left. Machado followed with a
line drive single to score two more.
After Schoop’s solo shot off of Steven Wright in the seventh put Baltimore
up 6-3, the Red Sox got an unearned run and were threatening with the bases
loaded before Betts’ pop-out to first ended the rally.
One day after Machado took the AL lead with his 14th homer, Betts tied him
with his solo shot in the third and his three-hit night raised his AL-leading
batting average to .371. |
