Sale Returns, Red Sox Send Orioles To Loss No. 100, 7-1

BOSTON (AP) — Chris Sale returned from COVID-19 to transportation 5 innings of two-hit ball, and Bobby Dalbec homered to assistance the Boston Red Sox bushed Baltimore 7-1 connected Friday nighttime and nonstop the Orioles to their 100th nonaccomplishment of the season.

One nighttime aft beating the New York Yankees successful a walk-off win, Baltimore again helped the Red Sox adjacent successful connected a playoff berth.

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Alex Verdugo had 3 hits and a sliding drawback successful the left-field corner, and Hunter Renfroe had a three-run treble for the Red Sox, who entered the nighttime successful a virtual necktie with Toronto for the 2 AL wild-card spots; New York was a fractional crippled back. The Yankees bushed Cleveland 8-0 and Minnesota topped Toronto 7-3 connected Friday, leaving Boston and New York successful playoff presumption astatine the extremity of the night, with the Blue Jays a half-game back.

Baltimore became the archetypal squad to scope 100 losses this season; Arizona entered the nighttime astatine 99. The Orioles person mislaid astatine slightest 100 successful each of the past 3 162-game seasons.

Sale (4-0) spent each of 2020 and the archetypal 4½ months of this play recovering from Tommy John surgery. Then, aft 5 starts, helium tested affirmative for the coronavirus connected Sept. 10 and was scratched from the pursuing start. He was activated from the IR connected Friday.

The seven-time All-Star allowed a location tally disconnected the Green Monster airy operation to Austin Hays, and Cedric Mullins’ single. Sale struck retired one, walked nary and deed a batter, leaving aft 5 innings and 79 pitches with a 3-1 lead.

J.D. Martinez doubled successful a tally successful the 5th to marque it 4-1. All 4 runs were charged to Keegan Akin (2-10), who gave up six hits and 3 walks earlier leaving erstwhile helium walked the leadoff batter to commencement the fifth.

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Renfroe deed a bases-loaded treble successful the sixth that Mullins dove for successful halfway but couldn’t get, scoring 3 much runs.

The Red Sox wore their yellowish and bluish Boston Marathon-themed uniforms that they had debuted connected Patriots Day.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Orioles: Trey Mancini (right oblique/abdomen) returned to the lineup astatine DH, and Pedro Severino (upper leg/groin discomfort) was backmost astatine catcher aft missing back-to-back games.

Red Sox: Sale was reinstated from the COVID-19 injured database earlier the game. Right-handed reliever Matt Barnes was besides reinstated from the database and returned from his wounded rehab duty with Double-A Portland. To marque country for them, RHP Ryan Brasier was optioned to Triple-A Worcester and RHP Michael Feliz was designated for assignment.

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