Red Sox Beat Best Team in the League, Win 3rd in a Row

Posted on August 20, 2015 in Game Recap

The Red Sox beat the owners of the best record in the AL (the Royals) 4-1 last night and now have won three straight games.

We're going streaking!

Wade Miley started this one for the hometown nine and turned in one of his best starts of the season, tossing seven and one-third innings of one run ball, striking out six and walking no one.

Pitchers IP  H  R ER BB SO HR ERA
Miley (W, 10-9) 7.1 6 1 1 0 6 1 4.41

Better yet, Miley had a great ground-ball-to-fly-ball ratio, getting 10 grounders and 4 flyouts to go with his 6:0 K/BB ratio. The only run he allowed was a solo homerun (sound familiar?) to Mike Moustakas.

Three of the Red Sox’ four runs scored in the bottom of the third. Xander singled. Papi struck out. Hanley grounded into a fielder’s choice. Travis Shaw doubled. Ryan Hanigan singled up the middle, scoring Ramirez and Shaw. Jackie Bradley tripled, scoring Hanigan. 4-1 Sox.

Notes:

-Shaw was 2-3 with a double and an RBI walk and is now hitting .382. If he keeps this up Dombrowski and the GM to be named later will have a tough decision about the first base position.

-Jackie’s OPS is up to .872.

–Ogando came in and didn’t give up a homer! That’s two straight appearances now. Granted this one was only 1/3 of an inning and he walked a guy … baby steps.

–Taz came in for the save and did his best Koji impression. He had a ten-pitch perfect inning, with a strikeout and threw only one ball.

-The Sox now only need to finish 35-6 to reach 90 wins.

-When everything goes right for this team they’re an impressive bunch. Dombrowski and friends have their work cut out for them choosing who stays and who goes, but only a few outside pieces are really needed — mainly bullpen help and an ace. Dombrowski has stated that he “believes in” the concept of an ace, which may be a slight dig at the construction of the 2015 starting staff. I’ll just leave this here:

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