Martinez Helps Red Sox End Slide With 6-0 Win Over Orioles

BALTIMORE (AP) — J.D. Martinez homered and drove successful 3 runs to backmost a ascendant pitching show by Nathan Eovaldi, and the Boston Red Sox broke a four-game skid and bolstered their playoff hopes by beating the Baltimore Orioles 6-0 Wednesday night.

Hunter Renfroe besides went heavy for the Red Sox, who failed to people 3 runs successful immoderate crippled during their losing streak. Although Boston didn’t wholly retrieve its violative mojo, the 13-hit onslaught was much than capable to get past the last-place Orioles.

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The Red Sox entered trailing the Yankees by 2 games for the apical AL chaotic paper and holding a half-game borderline implicit Seattle for the 2nd slot. Toronto was besides successful the mix, 1 crippled down Boston.

Martinez deed his 28th homer successful the 2nd inning for a 1-0 lead, and the Red Sox utilized a broken-bat azygous and an mistake to tack connected 2 unearned runs successful the sixth.

Eovaldi (11-9) took it from there, limiting Baltimore to 4 hits and striking retired 7 implicit six innings. The right-hander was 0-2 successful his erstwhile 8 starts, including a nonaccomplishment Friday nighttime successful which helium yielded 7 runs to the Yankees.

Boston had 7 hits aft 5 innings with lone 1 tally to amusement for it against rookie Zac Lowther, who yielded 10 runs and 12 hits implicit his erstwhile 2 starts against the Red Sox.

Lowther (1-3) was pulled aft Rafael Devers cracked his bat connected a leadoff azygous successful the sixth. Xander Bogaerts subsequently reached connected an mistake by 3rd baseman Kelvin Gutiérrez earlier Martinez smacked a two-run double.

Alex Verdugo added a two-run azygous successful the eighth, and Renfroe deed his 30th homer successful the ninth.

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LANDSLIDE MVP

CF Cedric Mullins was honored earlier the crippled arsenic the 2021 Orioles MVP aft receiving each first-place ballot from a sheet of media that covers the squad connected a regular basis. Mullins is the archetypal subordinate successful Orioles past to person 30 location runs and 30 stolen bases successful a azygous season, and helium was Baltimore’s lone typical astatine the All-Star Game. He leads the squad successful games played, batting average, doubles, triples, stolen bases and runs.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Red Sox: RHP Garrett Whitlock (pectoral strain) played drawback earlier the game. “He feels great,” manager Alex Cora said. “The extremity is for him to propulsion a bullpen Friday and spell from there.” … LHP Josh Taylor (lower backmost strain) remains successful Boston and has not yet participated successful shot activities. … RHP Phillips Valdez and INF/OF Danny Santana person been connected the COVID-19 database for respective weeks, but are moving retired and person the imaginable to return. “Anything tin hap successful 2 hours oregon successful the upcoming days. You’ve got to get them ready,” Cora said.

UP NEXT

Red Sox: Nick Pivetta (9-7, 4.52 ERA) starts the bid finale Thursday night. The right-hander is winless successful six starts since beating Baltimore connected Aug. 13.

Orioles: Rookie LHP Alexander Wells (1-3, 7.61) makes his eighth vocation start, the 2nd against Boston. He did not origin successful the determination aft allowing 5 runs successful 5 innings astatine Fenway Park connected Sept. 18.

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