Red Sox Wild Card Bid Stalls With 4-2 Loss To Orioles

BALTIMORE (AP) — Rookie Ryan Mountcastle deed his 32nd location tally to assistance the Baltimore Orioles rally past nemesis Chris Sale and the Red Sox 4-2 Tuesday night, extending their losing streak to 4 games and stalling Boston’s bid to heighten its playoff position.

The Red Sox led 2-0 successful the sixth earlier Mountcastle deed a two-run changeable and Pedro Severino added an RBI single. A run-scoring azygous by Ryan McKenna made it 4-2 successful the eighth, and Baltimore’s shaky bullpen made the vantage basal up.

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Boston started the time with a one-game vantage implicit Toronto for the 2nd and last AL wild-card slot. The Red Sox had dropped a crippled down the Yankees for the No. 1 spot aft being swept by New York successful a three-game play bid astatine Fenway Park.

After a time disconnected to regroup, Boston launched its last travel of the play with a matchup against the last-place Orioles. The Red Sox had won 12 of their past 13 games against Baltimore, and Sale’s domination of the Orioles — 10-0 successful his erstwhile past 13 starts — made the matchup look adjacent much lopsided.

Kyle Schwarber enactment Boston up with his 32nd location tally successful the 2nd inning, and Hunter Renfroe added a solo changeable successful the sixth.

Sale (5-1) coasted done 5 innings, but successful the sixth Kelvin Gutiérrez bushed retired an infield deed and Mountcastle went heavy to necktie it. Austin Hays followed with a azygous to extremity Sale’s nighttime earlier Severino delivered his go-ahead deed disconnected Hansel Robles.

Sale gave up 3 runs and 4 hits, struck retired six and walked 2 successful his eighth commencement pursuing elbow ligament replacement surgery. The lefty returned successful August with a triumph implicit Baltimore and backed that up by beating the Orioles again connected Sept. 17.

Activated from the injured database earlier the game, Baltimore starter Bruce Zimmermann allowed 1 run, 2 hits and 2 walks implicit 4 innings successful his archetypal quality since June 13. The rookie primitively was sidelined with near biceps tendinitis earlier spraining his close ankle during the rehabilitation process.

Marcos Diplán (2-0) pitched 2 innings, Joey Krehbel retired each six batters helium faced and Cole Sulser worked the ninth for his eighth save. Baltimore has mislaid six games this play erstwhile holding a ninth-inning lead.

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EVERYONE’S AN MVP

Asked to prime the astir invaluable subordinate connected the 2021 Red Sox, manager Alex Cora looked beyond the awesome numbers enactment up by Rafael Devers, J.D. Martinez, Renfroe and respective different violative stars by diplomatically declining to prime 1 sanction from the bunch. “There are guys who are having monster seasons, but erstwhile you interruption it down everyone has contributed, and that’s wherefore we’re successful this position,” Cora said. “I don’t deliberation it’s just to accidental this feline oregon that guy. As a group, they’ve been amazing.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Red Sox: RHP Garrett Whitlock (pectoral strain) threw astir 60 pitches connected the broadside Tuesday. “He felt good. Now we’ll spot however helium reacts contiguous and tomorrow,” Cora said. Whitlock (8-4, 1.99 ERA) tin travel disconnected the IL connected Thursday, but Cora said that’s apt not going to happen. … Cora had nary update connected LHP Josh Taylor (lower backmost strain).

Orioles: OF Anthony Santander’s injury-plagued play ended Tuesday erstwhile helium was placed connected the 10-day IL with a close genu sprain. “He’s been banged up for a portion now,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “It was a unusual twelvemonth for him successful that helium was ne'er afloat healthy. I springiness him a batch of recognition for hanging successful there.” Santander had 18 homers and 50 RBIs successful 110 games. … RHP Chris Ellis (right enarthrosis inflammation) was enactment connected the 10-day IL.

UP NEXT

Red Sox: RHP Nathan Eovaldi (10-9, 3.88 ERA) starts Wednesday night, looking to rebound from a rocky commencement against the Yankees successful which helium allowed 7 runs successful 2 2/3 innings. Boston was 6-0 successful his erstwhile six starts.

Orioles: Rookie LHP Zac Lowther (1-2, 7.66) earned his archetypal large league triumph past week against Texas, but successful 2 appearances against Boston he’s surrendered a combined 10 runs successful 5 2/3 innings.

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