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WILSON RAMOS |
THE BEST RED SOX TEAM EVAH! ...
Ramos produces a big game for Philly
August 15, 2018 ...
Wilson
Ramos waited
more than two weeks to play his first game in a Phillies uniform.
Providing just the jolt needed for their sputtering offense to snap
out of its late-summer malaise, Ramos put his fingerprints all over
the Phillies' 7-4 win over the Red. The Phillies' new catcher scored
three times and drove in three runs courtesy of a career-high three
extra-base hits in his team debut.
Ramos doubled in a run in the fourth, tripled and scored the go-ahead tally in
the sixth and doubled home two insurance runs in the seventh to help the
Phillies avoid their sixth loss in eight games. He also threw a runner out
stealing and guided a parade of seven relievers as they held baseball's most
potent offense in check for 6 2/3 innings.
Gabe Kapler emptied his bullpen and exhausted half of his bench by the fourth
inning in an attempt to salvage a poor start from Vince
Velasquez,
whose 2 1/3-inning effort marked his second-shortest of the season.
Rather than hold his breath and
see if Velasquez could wiggle out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the third,
after he allowed a three-run double to Mitch
Moreland,
Kapler deployed recently-recalled former closer Hector
Neris
who recorded two key outs to hold Boston's lead to three runs.
Ramos then led the Phillies'
methodical charge back from there, doubling home their first run off Nathan
Eovaldi in
the fourth. Pinch-hitting for Philadelphia's third pitcher, Carlos
Santana singled
home Ramos with the tying run later in the frame.
Ramos smacked his first triple in more than seven years off Joe
Kelly in
the sixth, scoring the go-ahead run on a sac fly by Scott
Kingery.
Ramos' second double stretched the Phillies' lead to three runs in a three-run
seventh.
After Pat
Neshek surrendered
an unearned run in the eighth, Seranthony
Dominguez was
able to strand the tying run at first by wiggling out of a bases-loaded jam. His
1-2-3 ninth capped a herculean effort by the Phillies' relief corps, which leads
the Majors with a 2.60 bullpen ERA over the last six weeks. In all, 21 players
were part of the Phillies' 3-hour, 27-minute triumph, which kept them from
drifting further into the fray of the National League's crowded playoff picture.
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