video: Sale Strikes Out 9, Red Sox Cruise Past Angels 6-2 in LA
Saturday, July 22, 2017
Might as well give JBJ the Gold Glove already. #RedSox pic.twitter.com/vTapCOmbkp
— Red Sox (@RedSox) July 22, 2017
Sale improves to 12-4 on the season while his nine strikeouts gives him a major league leading total of 200 on the season.
With the win, the Red Sox improve to 55-43 on the season.
Red Sox Take Control Early
The Red Sox took full control of the game in the first inning, scoring 5 runs with six of the first seven batters getting a hit.
Mookie Betts hit a lead off double to center field and then scored on an Andrew Benintendi single to put Boston up 1-0.
Benintendi would score on a single by Mitch Moreland and Moreland would later score on a wild pitch to put the Red Sox up 3-0.
Hanley Ramirez would score on a single by Xander Bogaerts to put Boston up 4-0.
Bogaert’s would cap off the scoring in the inning after he crossed home plate on a double to right field by Jackie Bradley Jr.
The Red Sox would add another run in the fourth to go up 6-0 after Bradley Jr. scored on a Mookie Betts single.
The Angels would get one run in the seventh and one in the ninth, but would get no closer as the Red Sox would win 6-2.
Series Continues
The Red Sox and Angels continue their series on Saturday, July 22 at 9 p.m.
The pitching matchup is Boston’s David Price against LA’s J.C. Ramirez.
Related Slideshow: The History of Baseball in Central Massachusetts
Baseball and Central Mass. go way back - to the 1860s. The local historical landmarks range from Mudville to Hotel Vernon to Fitton Field. A version of these highlights is posted on the site of the new, yet-to-be-formally-named Worcester Baseballteam of the three-year-old Futures Collegiate Baseball League.
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