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“DIARY OF A WINNER” |
THE BEST RED SOX TEAM EVAH! ... August 31, 2018 ... Yoan Moncada and Matt Davidson homered, prized prospect Michael Kopech combined with three relievers on a five-hitter, and the Chicago White Sox waited out a long rain delay to beat the Sox 6-1. The major league-leading Red Sox had won three in a row and trailed in each of them, including a 9-4 victory in the opener of the four-game set. They couldn't pull this one out. Moncada made it 3-0 with a two-run drive against Nathan Eovaldi (5-7) in the first inning. Davidson added a three-run shot off Tyler Thornburg in the seventh as the White Sox won for the sixth time in eight games. Eovaldi gave up three runs and three hits over two innings in losing his third straight start. In his first outing against the team that drafted him in the first round in 2014, the hard-throwing Kopech gave up one hit in three innings. He also hit two batters before a downpour with Chicago batting in the third cut his third major league start short. The game was delayed for 2 hours, 9 minutes. Dylan Covey (5-12) then tossed three-hit ball over three-plus innings. Juan Minaya gave up a run in two innings and Ian Hamilton worked the ninth. The Sox Andrew Benintendi homered in the eighth. Xander Bogaerts picked up his first career ejection after he got called out on strikes two batters later, and pitcher Rick Porcello got tossed arguing from the dugout in the bottom half even though he did not appear in the game. The way this one started, it looked as if Kopech might not get out of the first. Acquired in the deal that sent ace Chris Sale to The Sox in December 2016, he hit Mookie Betts with the game's first offering and walked Benintendi on four pitches. But Kopech worked his way out of the jam. He caught Betts off second as he broke to steal third, and then retired J.D. Martinez and Bogaerts. In the bottom half, Eovaldi hit Yolmer Sanchez leading off and gave up an RBI double to Avisail Garcia on an 0-2 count with one out. Garcia then made a neat slide tagging up on Daniel Palka's fly to center before Moncada went the other way and drove a 1-2 fastball to the left-field bullpen. |
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