Seven innings, eight hits, three runs to MLB's second-best hitting team, the Texas Rangers. But no walks or strikeouts.
Ryan Raburn homered in the eighth to make the score 5-3. Good thing he did, because Mike Napoli homered off Fernando Valverde with one out in the ninth. Papa Shut 'Em Down got the next two, and entered save number *30 out of *30 chances in this season's record book.
Raburn is hitting over .350 since the All-Star break; a hot stretch that has him all the way up to .227; a figure that by itself is an indicator of how bad things once were.
Raburn is hitting over .350 since the All-Star break; a hot stretch that has him all the way up to .227; a figure that by itself is an indicator of how bad things once were.
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Indians' rookie second baseman Jason Kipnis as become in instant baseball celebrity. The other famous person with that name, after classical musician Igor Kipnis.
The Tribe, in a curious trade deadline move, sent veteran infielder Orlando Cabrera to the Giants at a time when contending clubs like to hang onto experienced players. They've installed Kipnis at second and another freshman, Lonnie Chisenhall, at third.
Tonight at Fenway, Kipnis homered in his fourth straight game. Future MVP and baseball CEO Al Rosen was the last Indian rookie to do that, in 1950.
"The greatest thrill in the world is to end the game with a home run and watch everybody else walk off the field while you're running the bases on air," Rosen once said.
That's what Jacoby Ellsbury did in the ninth, giving the Red Sox a 4-3 win and the Tigers a four game lead in the AL Central.
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